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  "slug": "benga-and-coki",
  "name": "Benga & Coki",
  "description": "Benga & Coki appears 2 times in our Dubstep and The Waxonia Desk — The Night It Went National lists, placing as high as No. 5. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-29",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/benga-and-coki/",
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  "distinctRecordings": 1,
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    "first": 2008,
    "last": 2008
  },
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      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/benga-and-coki--night/",
      "title": "Night",
      "year": 2008,
      "label": "Tempa",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "The other pole from Mala: a bassline that lurches sideways with a physical violence nobody had got out of a synthesiser before. The record that gave the American mutation its permission slip.",
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      "whyItMatters": "The other direction entirely — a bassline built to break a room. Everything people came to love and to hate about the next five years of dubstep is already audible in it.",
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