"There is an element of death in life, and I am astonished that one pretends to ignore it: death, whose unpitying presence we experience in each turn of fortune we survive because we must learn how to die slowly. We must learn to die: all of life is in that."

Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Letters

Dub is one of the few DJs and producers out there who has an instinctive feel for rocking a dance-floor while also having both something to say ­ and the skills with which to express himself. Live and on record, he plays techno and house ­ sometimes deep, sometimes hard ­ but always infused with some kind of off-kilter alien funk. He doesn't just do looping bangers, and he doesn't get lost in self-indulgence, but he does produce superbly funky, danceable yet lush music that has both attitude and soul.

A special insight into party music that's great for your soul and your head sets Dub apart from most producers and this has made him one of those artists the techno scene relies on for peak-time sounds. His records get props from everyone from LA Williams and Richard Grey to Ricardo Villalobos and Andy Weatherall, even Sven Vath. He¹s recently put out tunes through Warp and influential German label Raum, plus he¹s already done the soundtrack for Channel 4's Burning Man film, the Tomorrow's World Live show, as well as for some web games and legendary fetish fashion show The Torture Garden. Kult, the infamous club night Dub runs with the Kult collective, has run since 1997, shaking the floor from everywhere from the ICA to dodgy Dalston warehouses and swank West London clubs. Guests have included Nathan Coles, Tyler T-Bone Stadius, Richard Grey and Brit underground legend Tom Churchill.

Dub doesn't serve up an arid musical mono-culture, but a rich mix. The diversity of his music is a reflection of his background ­ half-Indian, half-English, part-time member of both the cool crowd and the geek gaggle, neither definitively house nor techno. The music he makes is for both the head and the body. Even tunes that seem made for those moments when you're lost on the dance-floor always have some latent, brooding meaning ­ an intention. Like few DJs of his generation, Dub understands that at the centre of clubbing madness lies a still, reflective core. He is therefore a natural addition to the Dust roster of artists, a man whose whole career has been dedicated to the un-ending call-and-response of rhythm, this time expressed in electronic music.