Age 14 the afro-haired producer went to his first club, Forward>> at London’s now defunct Velvet Rooms, the night widely acknowledged for founding the bassy UK garage hybrid, dubstep.
Free of its hyper-local beginnings, dubstep DJs are now fighting the good fight worldwide. RA's Samuel Strang recently tracked down Benga, who will be hitting Turin's Club to Club Festival next month, to find out how it all happened this way.
Benga, Benton, The Menendez Brothers, Novelist, Sir Spyro, Footsie, Grandmixxer, Jammz, Just William, Carly Wilford, Sukh Knight, Hecha, Capo Lee, Hazel Marimba, Jamakabi, J Distant, OK Williams