Katy B: on a mission

2010-present: Number 50 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicDubstep was never really supposed to be a popular album genre. The whomp-whomp basslines and awkwardly spacious half-step sonics made it difficult for vocalists to get to grips with and meant that in the period 2005-9 it was only in anomalous, mostly instrumental albums by the likes of Burial, Vex'd, Shackleton and Skream that the genre found a way to adapt from four-track vinyl EPs for playing in clubs to 60...

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