Artist
Burial
Burial appears 4 times in our Dubstep, The Waxonia Desk — Ghosts, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred, and The Waxonia Desk — The Night It Went National lists, placing as high as No. 3. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.
- Ranked entries
- 4
- Appears on
- Dubstep, The Waxonia Desk — Ghosts, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred, and The Waxonia Desk — The Night It Went National
- Year
- 2007
- Highest placing
- No. 3 in Dubstep
- Updated
- 2026-08-29
Appears on
Archangel
2007 · Hyperdub
Ranked No. 3 in Dubstep
Rain, vinyl crackle and a pitched-up R&B vocal grieving over garage percussion that never quite lands on the grid. The record that made this music legible to people who would never enter the club.
Also on The Waxonia Desk — Ghosts, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred, The Waxonia Desk — The Night It Went National
Archangel
2007 · Hyperdub
Picked by The Waxonia Desk — Ghosts
A label's most famous record, made almost entirely out of the residue of the others. Hauntology was a useful word for it precisely because the music is assembled from things that have already happened.
Also on Dubstep, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred, The Waxonia Desk — The Night It Went National
Archangel
2007 · Hyperdub
Picked by The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
Rain, vinyl crackle and a pitched vocal grieving over percussion that never lands on the grid. The record that made club music legible to people who never go to clubs.
Also on Dubstep, The Waxonia Desk — Ghosts, The Waxonia Desk — The Night It Went National
Archangel
2007 · Hyperdub
Picked by The Waxonia Desk — The Night It Went National
From just after the broadcast, and the record that took the sound to people who would never go to DMZ. What a scene gains in reach it loses in the room, and this is the trade being made.
Also on Dubstep, The Waxonia Desk — Ghosts, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred