At The Smoking Area, their mission is to provide you with a podcast and live streaming platform exploring the many different facets of underground music and sound system culture. Picking the brains of their favourite artists and creatives within the scene, they aim to offer a unique perspective into the minds behind the music… before they let the sonics do the the talking.

From the depths of dubstep to the swing of UK funky, bass is electronic music with an edge.

Bass-led electronic music from dubstep to UK funky

Bass

Drum & bass evolved out of jungle and offers fast, broken beats, heavy sub-bass and high energy levels.

Fast, broken beats, heavy sub-bass and high energy

Drum & Bass

Typified by two-step rhythms, energetic MCing and off-kilter bass, garage is a melting pot of sounds, inspirations and concepts.

Garage

Inspired by the sub-bass of dub and the two-step rhythms of garage, dubstep developed as a cult genre before finding mainstream success around the world.

World-dominating fusion of dub and two-step

Dubstep

The source of all drum & bass culture, drawing heavily on Jamaican music and sound-system culture with hard, chopped breakbeats and dub basslines

Rapid breakbeats and dub reggae basslines

Jungle

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In the first episode of the series, Dan & Joe pick the brains of one of the most exciting prospects to come out of Hospital Records Med School and Different Music, Lakeway.

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