The Quietus posted a cool, and insightful column on dubstep on their site. Of course they mentioned Incubate artist Joker in it.

But the real talk of the bass music town this month, has to be the commemorative collation that is 5, a dual CD and vinyl package destined to mark the first 5 years of the Hyperdub label (clips and info here). Kode9’s label, constantly described in the media as “a mutating virus coursing through the veins of music”, has surprised many of its fans with its omnipotent turns and curve ball releases, simultaneously becoming the home to the beat sketches of Samiyam, the iconic vocoder wheeze of Darkstar, the dub heavy drawl of King Midas Sound – The Bug’s side project with Roger Robinson, and, of course, the whispy impassioned garage of Burial. In short it documents how Hyperdub has blossomed into a powerhouse label that sparks trends rather than following them, successfully incubating micro genres, nursing the ‘purple sound’ of Bristol by releasing Joker’s ‘Digidesign’ on the flip of JKamata & 2000F’s ‘Don’t You Know What Love Is’ and giving Zomby the double EP platform needed for him to bring his manic computer game torture to a wider audience.

Read the full column by Oli Marlow here.

On Incubate 2009 there are some really cool dubstep artists, besides Joker, like Broken Note, The Squire of Gothos, Reso, Raffertie, Doma Tornados, Shackleton, Process Rebel, Bass Clef, Suckafish P, Komonazmuk and more.

You can see them at work during the Generation Bass nights on Friday and Saturday evening. Generation Bass program:

Get your day, weekend or weektickets for Incubate here!