hyperdub

Those with even a casual/passing interest in dubstep are going to want to check this recent 27-minute BBC Radio 1 session, featuring Hyperdub's resident MC the Spaceape flowing over an insane live set from dubstep luminary Kode9. By the way, this was mentioned in the latest edition of Pitchfork's essential "The Month in Grime/Dubstep" column, in which Martin Clark says of the session:

"Released from the confines of the dancefloors' need for linear percussion or bass-reaction, the duo push on into an incredible headspace of dissonant sour spots and unstable arrangements. Deliciously sweet melodies flicker in, competing with FM radio snippets, opera blasts or offkey p-funk stabs, tied together with Spaceape's dystopian fiction. It's shockingly next level."

It starts getting really dope around the time Kode9 loops a RZA beat from Liquid Swords. You're going to want to break out the headphones for this one:

mp3:
kode9 + the spaceape :: live on BBC Radio 1 (63 mb)