Dieselboy’s influence is hard to overstate. After years of making hard-core rave mixtapes — before drum ‘n’ bass even existed as a genre — as a 20-something in Philadelphia in the late ’90s, he ...

Unlike with punk rock, at the height of drum ‘n’ bass’ near-mainstream crossover, there was never much of a debate over its country of origin. The skittering, ragga-inflected, bass-heavy electronic ...