The sound needed a hub to grow, and that hub was Big Apple.

Dubstep didn't invent bass, it just zoned in on it. Bass, to varying depths, is the foundation to most dance musics.

There is an uninformed myth circulating just now that makes dubstep way too important in the musical universe - don't believe the hype.

When a country is at war or in economic depression, underdevelopment or tightened security, it sets an affective tone or mood, which seeps through into everyday life via all kinds of channels.

Hyperdub started in 2001 as a web magazine, but we also did a few events in the early days before becoming a label.

Technical devices or processes which receive intensified investment during cold or hot wars spread through societies contagiously once their monopoly by the state has been undermined.

Both analog and digital developments have intensified the viral nature of sonic culture.

Audio virology is not a metaphor. It is to be taken literally. It maps real processes of mutation, transmission, contagion and memory within music culture.

A one-word book does appeal to me.

My father moved out a week later. I hugged him at our front door and couldn't bear to watch him leave with so much luggage.

Sometimes, at the least opportune times, the past is an insomniac, alive and well.

It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

I heard this album as finished, I heard it in dreams . . . It was like the revelations of John the Baptist or something.

Many girls have not the advantage I have and I [am] very very glad that satan has not geven me boils and many other Misfortunes.

I believe the people should have the opportunity to have a greater influence on politics with their ideas. We need a new impulse for renewal.

Is it my sweat that's no longer sweet?

Sure, I've seen people like you before - but I had to pay an admission.

Life is not lived in hours, days, or years, but in moments.