Adegbenga Adejumo, known as Benga, is a British musician from Croydon, known for being a pioneer of dubstep record production. He has been featured on a variety of compilations including Mary Anne Hobbs's Warrior Dubz, Tempa's The Roots of Dubstep and the BBC Radio 1Xtra anniversary mix.
Benga performing at Boiler Room in Liverpool, January 2024
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 beat, grime, and drum and bass. In the United Kingdom, the origins of the genre can be traced back to the growth of the Jamaican sound system party scene in the early 1980s.
The Big Apple Records shop, in Croydon, South London
Mala of Digital Mystikz, one of the pioneers of dubstep music
Dubstep producer Skream, one of the most widely known names on the scene since the beginning of the Dubstep movement
Dubstep Section at Black Market Records, Soho, London