Blog: Beats Per Minute

"In a profound sense, underneath two decades of relentless sonic mutation, this is the same music, the same culture." That's critic Simon Reynolds in his 2009 introduction to a series of essays he wrote chronicling what he calls the "hardcore continuum" - the pervading evolution of British underground dance music since the late 1980s. It's a phrase I haven't heard in a while, but it's one that keeps coming up around London dubstep collective LHF. As an American raised in the rural northeast, I'm about as far removed from the continuum as one can be. The world view [...]