below is a post by kode9 a dubstep producer on his blog http://kode9.blogspot.com/
their blog is a really good insight into an underground movement with many questions beyond music. theyre playing on sat 4th march at mass in brixton. with a 12k very loud soundsystem.im going come one come all.cans and tunes in my gaf first.
kode9_
"I've got an article in a new edited collection Cultural Hacking called Speed Tribes: netwar, affective hacking and the audio-social - its about spinoza, grime and the hardcore continuum. . .most of the book is in german
here is the intro
"The virtual architecture of dread defines the affective climate of early 21st century urbanism. It is underpinned by the sense, as a character from William Gibson’s latest novel Pattern Recognition proclaims, that “we have no future because our present is too volatile. . .” Exorcising this dread has been a central objective of cultural hackers. In the late 20th century, through breakbeat and vocal science, it was urban machine musics, and their pre-occupation with generating soundtracks to sonically enact the demise of Babylon, that took up this project. Since the turn of the 20th century, audio futurism has explored the themes of war, speed and sensation. A century later, and under the shadow of ‘shock and awe’, what are the current dynamics of this strain of affective hacking?"