London-based producer Jeremy Duffy (aka Duff Disco) has been releasing as Duffstep for less than a year, with just a couple of singles on Saigon Recordings and Electric Minds. Yet he's quickly accumulated many fans with his winning slowed down and funked-up disco and dubstep influenced beats. 'Getting To Sirius' dropped early this year on the label he co-founded, Join The Dots, with a stunning animated video for the unruly bass-stepping 'The Way It's...

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,...

Peverelist's Punch Drunk imprint has been doing an excellent job at spotting new talent over the past few years, breaking young artists like Guido or Heytal, and firmly establishing Bristol as a hotbed for cutting-edge dubstep mutations. The latest artist to step out of the Bristol underground via a release on Punch Drunk is Superisk, whose debut single 'Find Your Way' has recently caused a stir, among others at De:Bug magazine who chose it as their...