it is just like synthpop being a precursor to techno synthpop is white music whilst techno is black music radio babylon is dub it provides typical dub technique small room overreverbed room and the only thing it can be called 'dnb' for is the combination of percusion with k s k s rhythm which is hardly an invention of mbm four arguments to radio babylon opposition are mbm is an experimental band there has been already noted somewhere that kraftwerk's 'radioactivity' was once 'recognized' a first dubstep track by some dub is a genre of vast can you definetely state no simillar dubtrack has been written just before or much before radio babylon mbm's track isn't related to rave as dub or reverb technique isn't related to rave two years passed till another tracks of jungle have appeared if radio babylon is considered a first track arguments in favour are mbm are british so they are connected somehow to british rave scene track's rhythm is quite a simillarity with jungle music rhythms second argument is like 'drumfunk was created in the times jazz funk drum improvisations appeared s to s ' the first argument is weak without the second one one more argument that mbm's track is sampled in some jungle tracks as a straight shortcut to jungle music roots according to creators of those tracks but it is quite a pov argument i don't know the roots of rave the scene was dominantly white and the guy who brought acid house to uk was white too but who started using rpm breakbeat over tofloor is enigma to me personally black music may be considered a 'racial term' therefore i think you'll enjoy more politcorrect one 'pop music genre created by black people of african carribean may be also indian origin' i asure no one here wants it to start any racial war