Joe Muggs

Joe Muggs is best known as a music writer, having worked since 2000 for the likes of PURE, Mixmag, The Wire, FACT, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, theartsdesk, Bandcamp and Boiler Room - and published Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Soundsystem Culture (with photographer Brian David Stevens) via Strange Attractor / MIT Press at the end of 2019. He also brings to the table experience as a DJ, electronic musician, educator, album compiler (Ninja Tune’s ‘Grime 2.0’, Ministry’s ‘Adventures in Dubstep & Beyond’), A&R, label manager and ambient cabaret promoter, and continues to pursue all kinds of hare-brained schemes in public and in secret, the latest being the Ambient Salon series of “conversations in dub”.