This week's podcast is once again our Crew Picks edition, which brings you a fresh selection of zero" team favourites from the past few weeks. For every Crew Picks edition our entire team compiles a pool of tracks, from which one of us chooses a good dozen to assembles a one-hour set. This time around the mixing part is taken over by our editor Annie, who is keeping busy as a sound artist and audio designer when she's not reviewing releases, conjuring...

Headhunter and Pinch are our very special guests this week when our City Focus homes in on the UK's secret dubstep capital: Bristol. The British harbour city has been a stronghold of alternative music since the 1970s. From bands combining punk, funk, dub and political consciousness, such as Mark Stewart's The Pop Group, the Bristol trip-hop sound of Tricky and Massive Attack, to drum'n bass artists like Roni Size and DJ Krush. For the past few...

Our podcast this week comes from one of the most interesting Scottish producers in the field of dubstep: Glasgow's Ali Jackson a.k.a. Gravious. Socialised by diverse styles of electronic music, from ambient to drum'n bass, Jackson got hooked on the sounds of the emerging dubstep scene at the start of the millennium and took to producing his own music shortly thereafter. One of Jackson earliest supporters was Hotflush Recordings label boss Scuba,...