I thought I should do my homework before writing this feature. To sort myself out before writing this, I sifted through Top Secret’s old posts (sad bastard I know!) Anyway, I’ve now downloaded UK Hip Hop Mix 18, one of the many mixes he’s treated us to in the past.

It seems on closer inspection Krystian Taylor AKA Top Secret has more than one string to his bow. Indeed, it was his Forensics Dubstep mixes that first caught my attention.

As the genre is still its infancy, his mixes have been my main source for finding out what the Dubstep sound is. To me, Dubstep is a sub-genre of grime, dark grime. The main difference is that the former is instrumental, the latter tends to have an MC. It’s been around for a few years but has only recently been getting the attention it deserves.

One of the up-and-coming DJs in Dubstep, comes in the form of London-based producer Forensics. He has been working hard for a long time. Forensics co-runs Bristol’s Ruffnek Diskotek club, plays on SubFM & Breaks FM, and his Rogue Frequencies EP is due for immanent release on Digital Sin Recordings. You will be pleased to hear that his hard work has not gone unnoticed – he was recently interviewed and had a track played on Plasticians Radio 1 show.