Mary Anne Hobbs’ name is thrown around a lot these days. A leading champion of underground electronic music in the UK, Hobbs has steered a plethora of producers, DJs and artists into the limelight.
She’s most commonly known as the maternal figure of dubstep and grime, and opened up the channels of communication between the public and artists like Burial, Flying Lotus and Martyn. Her inspiring resume reads like a cross between the lives of Lester Bangs and John Peel.
Starting out as a journalist for magazines like NME and Sounds, Hobbs then went on to introduce artists for the Leeds festival between 1999-2003. In 2006, she started the two-hour show Dubstep Warz on BBC Radio 1; the show is widely regarded as the catalyst for dubstep’s global breakthrough.
This led to Hobbs starting her own compilation series with Planet Mu and curating a stage at Barcelona’s Sonar festival in 2007. She is a DJ in her own right too, and has put together a third mix for Planet Mu entitled Wild Angels, a real corker, which features new artists such as L.A.’s Nosaj Thing, Warp’s Hudson Mohawke and British dubstepper Untold.
The farsighted and open-minded Hobbs states on her website “electronic music moves forward in thousands of tiny scattered steps every day.” We concur.
Planet Mu will release Mary Anne Hobbs' Wild Angels on September 7, 2009.
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