"By about 2007 I was getting left a little cold by the greyness of dubstep: stuff that is literally just drum and bass, with no tone colour.

"That minimalism felt fresh at the time, but that freshness doesn’t last, it leads to stagnation, and gets predictable." So the virus mutates? "Yeah, your immunity to it increases. And like any drug experience, your response becomes, ‘I don’t get high off that anymore.’"

Kode9 talks to Dan Hancox about Hyperdub, Russian art and "squiggly synths" in The Guardian.