http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/jan/11/notes-noughties-grime-dubstep

Some pretty nice points in there actually, especially his conviction that UK nuum music isn't 'merely dance music' - there's a lot more encoded within it than that, which certainly seems to be the aspect that makes it eminently more listenable than standard electro/house bangers.

What's interesting about the current hybrids that land somewhere between dubstep, grime and funky is the fact that they often manage to avoid lurching down the blind alleys of any of their parent forms. The whole 'cross-pollination keeps the gene pool healthy' thing in action I suppose.