The weekly bass music magazine. Noisia's comeback, Chase & Status' seventh album, thirty years of Hospital, and twenty of Skream!.
The Dutch trio announced their reunion on 17 September, seven years after deciding to disband. Their first show since 2022 is set for Melkweg, Amsterdam.
Two more dates followed: Circolo Magnolia in Milan, booked by Electric Wave, and the Saturday Entropy stage at Let It Roll Winter in Prague, alongside IMANU, QZB and Rido.
A world-record attempt in the disused Cwmorthin slate quarry in Eryri, for a small group of ballot winners, streamed on G-Shock Radio.
“It's the most underground of underground raves ever.” Roni Size to Mixmag
Spotify's new event series starts at Drumsheds, 13:00 to 22:30, with Digital Mystikz, LTJ Bukem, Shy FX, SBTRKT b2b MJ Cole and Special Request.
A 2027 arena tour follows the album: Glasgow, Manchester and Birmingham in March, then The O2 in London.
Five outdoor shows for summer 2027: Thetford, Delamere, Lincoln Castle, Cannock Chase and Halifax's Piece Hall, with MJ Cole as guest.
Ultra's phase one includes the pair's first-ever back-to-back set, plus Alison Wonderland b2b Tiffany Day.
Their seventh studio album. Ten tracks, produced and mixed by Will Kennard and Saul Milton themselves, with Skrillex co-mixing his feature. It's built around one image: the cube.
The cube is our symbol for that pressure; a place where original ideas are squeezed into the same shape.Chase & Status · The Line of Best Fit · 26.08.2026
Critical Presents: Binary Vol.30. The 30th artist in Binary, Critical's platform for new names, with four tracks: Patience, Answers, Slowdance, Crystals.
NMTB / Make Me. A Metalheadz debut. Per the label, 'NMTB' flips the Never Mind the Buzzcocks theme riff into a bassline roller.
The Power. A dubstep collaboration released on Circus Records.
Sovereign Ring. The Bristol MC and producer returns to Shogun with a jungle-rooted single.
LOCKDOWN. Drum and bass with Duskee on vocals.
Feel For You. A UKF single, three months before Andromedik plays Let It Roll Winter.
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Founded in London in 1996 by Tony Colman and Chris Goss, the label turns 30 still independent. Scroll through three decades, from NHS1 to NHS500.
Tony Colman and Chris Goss, then recording together as London Elektricity, start a label for their own music. The first catalogue number, NHS1, is the Peter Nice Trio, their side project: 'Harp Of Gold / Son Of David'.
“My grandfather was a GP and the name Hospital kept coming back to me.”Tony Colman, Skiddle, 2018
London Elektricity's debut album, recorded with session musicians and featuring jazz singer Liane Carroll. The label's sound starts to take shape: soulful, musical, built for the floor.
The label's club night starts at Herbal, a small club in Hoxton, and later moves to Heaven under Charing Cross.
“In 2000 we started Hospitality at Herbal, this tiny little club in Hoxton.”Tony Colman, Skiddle, 2018
The Welsh producer High Contrast releases his debut album on Hospital.
Hospital launches Med School, an imprint for new artists, and releases Logistics' debut album 'Now More Than Ever'.
The Belgian producer signs in late 2009. His self-titled debut album comes out on 31 May 2010.
Danny Byrd's album carries 'Ill Behaviour' feat. I-Kay into the UK top 40, at No. 36.
Netsky's second album tops the Belgian chart and reaches No. 29 in the UK. In 2021 Official Charts called it the label's biggest UK album.
Twenty-five years marked with 25 remixes and reworks.
“We were the first drum & bass label to deliver our catalogue to iTunes soon after it launched.”Chris Goss, Music Week, 2021
The 'Hospital 500' compilation takes the catalogue to its five-hundredth number.
HOSPITAL30 On The Harbour, a one-day festival at the Lloyds Amphitheatre in Bristol, with Hybrid Minds, High Contrast, Fred V, Hoax and London Elektricity.
Times are doors, local time. Tickets via the clubs' own pages.
Full line-up out. Wilkinson headlines Friday, Noisia play Saturday's Entropy stage, with Koven, Black Sun Empire and IMANU.
Dates announced with Bass Canyon. The joint "PNW Pass" is on sale until 24 October.
First wave: Dimension, Kai Wachi, K Motionz, Macky Gee, Riot Ten, Murdock & MC Mota.
Moves from January to March. Andy C, A.M.C, Kings of the Rollers, Dillinja, Flava D.
Excision's festival returns. Dates out, no line-up yet.
Oliver Jones, born in 1986, worked as a teenager at Big Apple Records in Croydon, the shop at the centre of early dubstep. He started producing at about 15 on FruityLoops, after messing about with the PlayStation game Music 2000.
'Midnight Request Line' came out on Tempa in 2005 and is credited with pushing dubstep towards melody. The self-titled album followed on 30 October 2006: thirteen tracks, with JME on 'Tapped' and Warrior Queen on 'Check It'. Then came Magnetic Man with Benga and Artwork.
Five rhythms of the bass family, played by a tiny drum machine built into this page. No samples: every hit is synthesised in your browser.
Every Sunday the issue closes with a reel: one scene per day, Monday to Saturday. On Instagram the week fills five rows of the grid, fifteen posts, all in the issue's colour.
