As the genre known as dubstep continues to fatten up and assert itself as something more than a mere outgrowth of grime, a set of names (most of them English) has risen to the top of the ranks, Scuba and Appleblim among them. Scuba came up on the label Hot Flush and put out an album, A Mutual Antipathy, that rates as one of dubstep’s best.
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