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At some point in 2007, a bunch of people realised that they hadn't been laid for the entirety of the four years they'd been listening to dubstep, and fucked off to make something that sounded like the exact opposite of it.
It began life without a name, but pretty soon music hacks realised the jig was up for dubstep because no one wanted to feel like they were trapped in a submarine in the Thames having a panic attack any more, and so "post-dubstep" was born. A few years later, and here we are: with the first British club music built on a 4x4 kick to soundtrack a T4 ident since "Where's Your Head At".
Modern-day house is undoubtedly the movement of the moment, currently occupying a territory somewhere between the internet underground and the stereo of your mum's favourite shop on the high street. Some of its facets have broken through into the mainstream, but the heart of it definitely remains in the "sub" part of culture. "Latch" may have made the top 20, Bashmore might be blowing up on your workplace radio, but if they did another Live Aid tomorrow, nobody from the scene's ready to be up there singing "Let it Be" with Paul McCartney and Emile Sande quite yet.
But they will be soon. And when they are, you'll be sneering at your younger siblings, telling them they're stnuc because you saw Benga at DMZ rather than Magnetic Man at Snowbombing, and that you were one of the people sullenly nodding their heads in the first ever Boiler Room stream. You're going to become our era's equivalent of the people who said they liked Green Day "when they were still punk", or Lauryn Hill when she still hated white people, or Juicy J before he became the Chumbawumba of trap.
At some point very soon after that, someone's going to declare this new house revival dead. And when that moment comes, people will start looking around to see who's got its eccy-polluted blood on their hands. So, in case you're wondering who to blame when you're stood at the end of the line for Jamie Jones' sell-out Wembley Arena show, we took a pre-emptive look at who's likely to murder the new house revival.....
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