__NOTOC__ Hyperdub is a British,

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-based

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record label and former

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, founded by

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, a.k.a. Kode9. The label was formed in 2004, and grew out of the UK's early

dubstep Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the early 2000s. The style emerged as a UK garage offshoot that blended 2-step rhythms and sparse dub production, as well as incorporating elements of broken be ...

scene. Artists signed to the label have included

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, Cooly G,

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, DJ Rashad, DVA,

Fatima Al Qadiri Fatima Al Qadiri ( ar, فاطمة القديري; born July 1981) is a Senegalese-born Kuwaiti musician and conceptual artist. Biography Fatima Al Qadiri is the daughter of Mohammed Al Qadiri, a former Kuwaiti diplomat and writer, and Thuraya ...

, Ikonika,

Jessy Lanza Jessy Lanza is a Canadian electronic songwriter, producer, and vocalist from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She has released three albums, '' Pull My Hair Back'' (2013), ''Oh No'' (2016) and '' All the Time'' (2020), to critical praise on UK label H ...

, Klein,

Laurel Halo Laurel Anne Chartow (born June 3, 1985), known professionally as Laurel Halo, is an American electronic musician currently based in Berlin, Germany. She released her debut album ''Quarantine'' on Hyperdub in 2012 to critical acclaim; it was name ...

and

Zomby Zomby is a British electronic musician who began releasing music in 2007. He has released music on several labels, including Hyperdub, Werk Discs, and 4AD. Zomby's influences include oldschool jungle music and Wiley's eskibeat sound. Car ...

. '' RBMA'' called Hyperdub "one of the UK’s most celebrated underground labels."

History

Kode9 initially founded Hyperdub as a

in 1999, which blended a focus on forward-thinking UK dance music with theoretical writing. The label was founded in 2004; its first release was “Sine of the Dub”, a collaboration between Kode9 and

The Spaceape Stephen Samuel Gordon (17 June 1970Melissa Bradshaw"The Spaceape obituary" ''The Guardian'', 24 October 2014. – 2 October 2014), known as The Spaceape, was a British poet and MC. He is known for his work on the electronic music label Hyperdub ...

. Subsequent releases established the label as an influential label within the UK’s early

scene, including

's self-titled debut album, which ''

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'' magazine named their number one album of 2006.''Rewind 2006'', The Wire no. 275, January 2007. The label would then become associated with styles such as

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and Chicago footwork through its signing of artists like Cooly G and DJ Rashad. More recently, the label has signed diverse artists working across electronic music, including

, and Klein.

Artists

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History

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