Techno music is a funny old game at the moment. The merest hint of fashion, or ego, and the old guard are up in arms. In 2008 then, they are...

Mago Bo, Spannered's favourite Rio de Janeiro-dwelling masher of world styles, has a hot new...

Ever had your cranium poleaxed? El Kano takes the reins for Spannered’s fifth Oddcast — a selection that’ll have even the hardiest of superheros crapping into their lycra.

Grimey beats hovering around the 140 bpm mark, dashed with Nepali lok pop and 8-bit mentalism.

Spannered's second mix of gruff bassline electronics from the boy El Kano.

Recorded in São Paulo during January 2007, Marolo maps out a history of noise music from 1913 to present day.

El Kano of London's Adverse Camber crew serves up an exclusive mix of spannered basslines and ruff electronics.

What's all this nonsense about spanners? Sneaking at the end of 2006, Spannered is borne of two websites you may...

2005 was a fertile year for London’s post-garage panorama. From the polished jabs and rhymes of big guns Dizzee and Kano to the cold,...

The first instalment of Run the Road last year brought the urgent, abrasive sound of grime to the attention...

Toddler investigates Manchester's foray into bimma-shaking grime.

The history of the application of sound in warfare is, by its very nature, cloaked in secrecy and misinformation. Much of what seeps out into...