Blog: The Passion of the Weiss

No slang is sillier or more superannuated than labeling someone a "tastemaker." You might as well reference "brand-building," "paradigm shifting" or refer to your latest project as an "artistic exploration." But Mary Anne Hobbs, the British BBC 1 radio personality might be the one of the only people imaginable for whom the sobriquet is actually appropriate. In 06, she dropped the seminal Warrior Dubz compilation which helped break Dubstep torchbearers Burial, Kode9 and Skream. More recently, she championed Low End Theory staples like Flying Lotus, Gaslamp Killer, and Nosaj Thing, before local media hopped [...]

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