They would later become an important facet of the jungle/drum and bass, UK garage, grime and dubstep music scenes.As such, these would become known as "dubplate specials" often remarking on the prowess of the sound system playing it, in a bid to win the clash.John Hassell and his wife ran a recording studio from their suburban house in Barnes, South West London, but would become key to British sound systems and artists such as Dennis Bovell.[6][7] New music would regularly be composed and recorded onto DAT tape in order for it to be cut onto dubplate, often so that it could be played that weekend (or even that night).Despite the shift to DJing on digital mediums such as CDJs and DJ controllers, dubplates continue to be used for playing exclusive music and have also gained a specialist market in recent years.
