Dubstep Warz, Behind The Scenes

Dubstep Warz on The Breezeblock, BBC Radio 1 with Mary Anne Hobbs 2006
Recently uncovered raw footage from behind the scenes at BBC Radio 1 during the recording of Dubstep Warz in early 2006 on Mary Anne Hobbs Breezeblock Show. Features sets from Mala, Skream, Kode9 & the Spaceape, Vex’d, Loefah and Sgt. Pokes, Hatcha & Crazy D and DJ Distance. Also features cameos of Benga, Chef, Hijack, The Bug, Georgina Cook (Drumz of the South) and more.
Video shot by Jessica Edwards and Kode9
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[@GetDarker]

Everyone in that room changed the game, and changed lives. The most powerful dubstep show ever! So thrilling to see this behind the scenes footage all these years later. Large up Kode9!

[@DeepTempo]

You put it best man 🙌 life changing indeed

[@JC-XL]

It was a legendary programme

[@vekoffski]

Bloody goosebumps❤

[@communistgas]

whole thing is goosebumps. nearly 20 years ago now crazy stuff

[@bonebrokk]

these people changed everything for me thank you R.I.P. The Spaceape

[@joshwardle5024]

I joined the Electronic Music scene late in my youth. It wasn't until 2005 at 16 years old that i started to appreciate the sound design and production. At the time i was more into post hardcore and punk and saw 'bass' music and computer noise as something only Chavs enjoyed. It wasn't until a friend made me sit and listen to Goldies debut album and DJ Hype/Andy C Mixes that i started to appreciate the sound. Skip to 2008 and i discover Marie Anne Hobbs' 'Dubstep Warz' video, I was truly blown away. It wasn’t just a video to me; it felt like a vibrant snapshot of the evolution of bass music and the culture that surrounds it. But at that time the genre had evolved into a more aggressive and 'tear out' sound, which i enjoyed more than this minimalist production and sound. Its now 2024 and it still bewilders me how the original Radio 1 segment captures not only the sound but also the palpable energy and the sense of community that was thriving in the dubstep scene at that time. Seeing and listening to these guys, each with their own unique styles, helped me develop a deeper appreciation for the genre. I remember feeling a rush of excitement as I discovered the creativity and diversity that the electronic music scene has to offer. It really opened my eyes to a world I hadn’t fully explored before - and now, nearly 20 years later, I've discovered this behind the scenes video to one of the pivotal moments in bass music history!

[@prod.MRBLOXY]

You can't listen to this without bopping your head.

[@shros]

Spaceape giving me goosebumps man

[@timkarbon2166]

I feel you bro, what a vocalist, what an artist, what a legend

[@willbingle4524]

So good watching him perform

[@user-ob9zo9cr4c]

13:32.. damn this vibe

[@jeanfrancoisnelson]

No matter what shite Skream does now, I will always have full respect for him due to the tunes he made during this time

[@masterjohnward2664]

Yeah ♥️

[@KingRabid]

truer words never spoken!

[@Moskalus]

damn....dubstep will always have special place in my heart

[@craftd8025]

crazy man, I always see you on house/minimal tracks. Good to see you here also chief 👊

[@rcecil88]

@@craftd8025the man Moskalus has epic taste in music

[@MaisBaixo]

yes yes yesss!! thank you Kode9!! 02:16 Digital Mystikz - 10 Dread Commandments VIP 03:09 Digital Mystikz - Haunted [DMZ007] 03:46 Digital Mystikz - Left Leg Out [DMZ010] 04:25 Skream - Midnight Request Line (Digital Mystikz _ Mala Remix) [TEMPACD008] 04:52 Coki - All Of A Sudden [MEDI003] 06:25 Digital Mystikz ft Spen G - Anti-War Dub [DMZ007] 09:24 Skream - Tapped [TEMPA022] 10:01 Skankin Mala 10:35 Sunship & Warrior Queen - Almighty Father (Skreamix) 11:30 Skream - Glamma [TEMPA016] 11:53 Benny Ill, Kode9 & The Culprit - Fat Larry Skank (Kode 9 Remix) [TEMPA023] 13:25 Kode9 & Space Ape - 9 Samurai [HYP004] 14:40 Kode9 & Space Ape - Backward [HYP004] 16:59 Kode9 & Space Ape - Kingstown [HYP003] 18:32 Burial - Spaceape [HDBCD001] 19:48 Vex'd - Bombardment Of Saturn [ZIQ131] 20:22 Loefah - Mud [DMZ009] 21:36 Yung Skream 21:46 Skankin Mala (Salute Version) 23:55 Benga - Zombie Jig [BENGABEATSCD01] 25:43 Distance - Night Vision [ZIQ170] 26:51 "Smile Chef!"

[@matelakos1978]

will Skankin Mala (Salute Version) ever get a release?

[@TheLegitMrSmooth]

Room full of legends

[@johnmcfarlane9647]

Dubstep Warz really did change my life

[@aumoccbei3197]

The Mary Anne Hobbs bit over Mala at 8:04 is so beautiful and evocative. When I hear her talking about something so strange, exciting and amorphous as dubstep in January 2006 I get this completely hair raising feeling. How many times in our lives will we be able to be in a place and time where something truly historic is happening, like here?

[@Breddadread]

This!!! That feeling kills me, yet it keeps me going Im on goosebumps now

[@Decimation001]

Long live dubstep and true electronic

[@energyflash_tk]

I get a really strange and peculiar feeling watching this. I only got into dubstep in 2019 so obviously really late. This mix was naturally one of the first things I heard. Watching this feels like I'm intruding some ceremony or tomb, like I'm disturbing ghosts. I couldn't feel more like an outsider. This sound was not supposed to find me yet it's one of the genres that speaks the most to me. I'm here watching this feeling mournful for a moment in time that has long since passed.

[@jimikees4895]

Music is music mate whether you just heard it or hearing it for a very long time already! The most important thing is that you discovered it. These are the roots of UK dubstep in its truest form

[@iwouldprefernotto4381]

I was into the scene at the time but I loved your description - the music all had this spectral quality, even at the time. I’m sure you know, but Dubstep was born out of genres like jungle and UK garage but it was as if it stripped them down to their very barest bones. Mark Fisher used the term “hauntological” and I think that’s perfect.

[@Menosfilms]

All good bro you knowing the dubstep roots is the most important thing. It’s respectful. It didn’t even make its way to the US raves until like 2011-2012. I remember the local promoters were only booking hardstyle artists up until the breakthrough around those years.

[@iwouldprefernotto4381]

@@Menosfilms Absolutely, but by 2011-12 it had morphed into something a bit harder and dancier - some of it was still interesting but I was really in love with the earlier, more atmospheric, weirder dubstep, without the endless "drops".

[@floatinga4930]

Growing up in the states, this was the scene that got me into underground electronic music. I only had 2 friends who knew this stuff even existed. I would read every interview I could find. Seeing it like this, it looks exactly how I imagined it in my head.

[@kevinromero3754]

This is like heaven

[@jamesoncroft2980]

Night Vision is simply crushing. I feel Distance was so underrated.

[@_Fractaal]

Especially as his background is from metal - unlike the rest that came from garage/jungle etc. His first album is so so good. Sick dj as well!

[@Decimation001]

Fallen (Vex'd Remix) is a masterpiece, a tune which evokes such a unique resonance

[@nighttrain2120]

Skream's Tapped Riddim is so tuff.

[@duploc140]

21:43 Mala running already back in 06

[@masterjohnward2664]

👍🙌

[@maxdoe237]

Underrated comment

[@masterjohnward2664]

@@maxdoe237 they ain’t ready for this

[@PaulCaudell]

I still listen to this show regularly, absolute classic.

[@humpback_whale369]

Have you got a link to listen to the show?

[@MrNimtiz]

Incredible to see this footage!! 20:24 - I’m pretty sure this was the first time Mud had been played out live. So the reactions of Skream and everyone else was probably there first time too. Apart from the DMZ crew I’d imagine Pokes also has some sick lines in this set like “Everyone’s weapons come from Transition though, standard issue.” They didn’t show it here but in Loefah’s set the System track he plays out has a different vocal hit before the drop which wasn’t released on Tectonic which made me so gutted. That little vocal hit added so much in my opinion

[@radientproductions9799]

9 Samurai , good lord what a tune!

[@cjc793]

Loefah: We don't really have MCs over it The Spaceape: step aside... wa'acha

[@_al.x0]

history right here

[@t0k438]

Fucking Historical Document Right Here

[@Audunforgard]

Jesus Christ the Father and Holy Ghost!! Those were the times!! We had Kode9 over in Oslo around 2003 as he was still running the original Hyperdub blog. Such greaat litterature as these genre defying wobbles started rippling outwards . A lecture on sonic warfare that is available on my mixcloud page possibly.. Two riotous nights - I mean really riotous!!!e If I`m lucky there might be some footage from those nights... Thanks for the phat vibes, keepin it stricty OngyBongy since 2004

[@spartacus8661]

Memories of the Future is what started it for me, crazy to think that was 06 RIP SPACEAPE

[@besk1]

Reminds me of the best years of growing up. Mandem blasting the Red Stripe before it was a hipster drink! 😅 What an epic set.

[@madeanaccountjustfor]

havent seen mala this hype since someone tried to jack his slipmat

[@Rhekluse]

This show is legendary! Big ups! @18:38 Burial - Spaceape

[@Josef_K99]

unreal footage

[@asadavis9532]

Benga with the PSP

[@cjjones258]

R.I.P. The Spaceape

[@maxb4057]

and then skrillex f*^&ed it all up ;) immense back then, I was lucky to be the engineer at Club Love in NYC which hosted many of these guys and was the epicentre of it stateside! peace all, hope it all returns

[@skully511]

So many legends in one place

[@jakemiller9461]

Amazing. I never knew there were video recordings of the sets

[@philjamprimate]

2006! my god, I'm old! This was my 3rd wave of music interest!

[@polofayot]

Miss Spaceape so much...

[@user-ob9zo9cr4c]

s/o 2 dear Mary Anne Hobbs also, she still the same about passion to music, love too also for artists. but ofc no ego bullshit, etc. she great I swear, love her voice when she talking on music, btw

[@WOLFanddBEAR]

Listened a thousand times to this. Great to watch the video.

[@gombles]

Pure magic. Creators, originators and carriers of a whole genre. Big love!

[@replicant_2049]

Historical footage which must be protected at all cost. Legendary.

[@rad44rr]

15:50 transition is unreal.. rip spaceape

[@DjWellDressedMan]

Pure Bass End Fun in 2006 and a HUGE THANKS to DJ Mary Anne Hobbs for breaking this to the World.

[@syngesoundsystem]

Charged up with so much inspiration after watching this ⚡ dubstep revolution ⚡

[@LWPC7]

greatness

[@bagofrandom]

Truly incredible

[@seanhyde8013]

Wow, just wow...and I thought Id seen every bit of footage there was out there 😂

[@daisyfayeful]

Incredible footage to see after all this time.Thanks for posting it. Spaceape is one of the all time great MC's - he blows me away in this.

[@sharnelesinge8720]

This is such an amazing insight into such an inspirational time, as much of a platitude that it is, these years of dubstep really did change my life. Big up and thank you to all involved

[@chronicallybriana]

In awe

Room full of legends, so much based and truest. Thank you for the footage, so much epic to be in those times as a part of that.

[@fergusmurphy1]

thank you for this ! magic. watching and hearing spaceape...that tune and the words that still carry truth 'strange how things seem to remain the same/ when all the while we a try fi make change/ watch how the mutants them fight and struggle/ pushing up themselves to find space inna the middle'

[@djantix1200]

Amazing footage! Legends!

[@1988welder]

LEGENDARY!

[@papanovembermusic]

Amazing! Best not forget how sick and deep this scene can be! And how Dub

[@aldoborja4590]

Nostalgia

[@masterjohnward2664]

We needed this 💋

[@edbristol991]

So humbling

[@lorddubious]

Chills reliving those days of the beginning of an exciting new chapter of electronic music. Thanks!

[@ancientcircuitry]

Incredible!

[@creekandseminole]

Holy cow this is amazing

[@Menosfilms]

Goosebumps

[@socketofdavis]

HUGE. thanks for the upload!

[@jtrskaos]

Cheers !

[@stalkerlohh]

If Ya did not know, mala hears only with one ear

[@jokaliify]

thank you!

[@atetraxx]

What a sick upload.

[@bal20]

Wow, thanks for posting this. Thanks and love to Mary Anne and all the amazing producers and MCs involved. Music history right here, a one of a kind

[@JohneyMusic]

"Smile, Chef" "I can't!"

[@MrDubtunez]

Thanks so much for this footage!

[@user-ob9zo9cr4c]

who else was looking for Burial face in this video? lol

[@karborn-qw6wq]

@@jeanfrancoisnelson at 3:23 crossed arms mate.

[@xavier2486]

@@karborn-qw6wq 100%, can see him throughout the vid

[@xavier2486]

@@rorz999 I'd be surprised if he wasn't there that night

[@JBlizzyFan]

@@karborn-qw6wq that's not him lol

[@baratoplata7050]

I was surprised I saw The Bug there, Thought this was a bit earlier than he was on the scene with Skeng but I'm guessing Kode9 was keeping an ear on all the acid dancehall stuff he was making earlier

[@alphadream953]

incredible video still incredible era

[@user-ob9zo9cr4c]

25:55 Distance so underrated @

[@xxiii23]

I still hope Mala release 10 dread commandments vip someday

[@bluen0tez]

thank you so much for uploading this!! what an amazing show

[@VladTepeshu]

ancient memories

[@Juanelromano]

Dmz

[@antihero898]

so sick

[@user-ob9zo9cr4c]

13:17 RIP legend

[@LiQuidFlav]

SO GOOD FOR THIS!

[@someblokecalleddave1]

Voted in the Guardian the 2nd most important/influential BBC music footage after Bowles Star-man on TOTP's in 72.

[@music_by_carlos]

fantastic

[@_Fractaal]

I honestly think Dubstep was the last great musical movement we’ll ever see. I can’t think of anything recent that touches the mark like this. History.

[@n.l.j]

“ Mashin' up the system with a paraflexible 'earin' ”

[@SCT__]

Thank you for sharing this.

[@weynagrom]

An inspiring time capsule of future past. Thanks for digging this up.

[@tokyugaijin9327]

RIP SpaceApe.

[@DJBONEZDIEZ]

amazing vid

[@bassill8284]

Opening tune-digital mistikz😈

[@infernauta8639]

Legends! Anyway, I didn't know Roly Porter was a Dubhead

[@jessebuehler9082]

Vex'd

[@zebrabloodtv]

HUGE🔥🔥🔥 CHILLS!!! RESPECT THE DONS🙏🏼🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊

[@marcoangelo]

fucking sick. A genre born here.

[@unf0ld]

F*cking Legendary!

[@charliefoy5156]

❤️ I love you all

[@BuiltbyFellony]

"Smile, Chef!"

[@DubTactics]

Big ups :)

[@cutsdeep]

I've seen the photo at 26:48. legends

[@ΙΠΠΟΚΡΑΤΗΣΓΙΑΝΤΣΟΓΛΟΥ]

Victims themselves of a close encounter... RIP Big Spaceape!

[@tokyugaijin9327]

🔥

[@empty-i3q]

I should be there thanks!!

[@kevinromero3754]

Me too 💔

[@Ravingman]

Ancient memories