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...

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

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

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,...

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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...

An epic 80-minute techno/breaks romp from Scheme Boy of London's Adverse Camber collective.

Tego Calderón and M.I.A. rub up with roaming beatsmiths Maga Bo and Filastine as badman selector El Kano gets on a mutant ragga tip.