Dubstep up

Christopher Mercer (Rusko) is, according to the most viable source I know, currently the biggest dubstep producer in the world. Which is a good thing for those of us who have a penchant for the grimy bass-laden 2 stepping dark-as-shit shuffle.

I’ve posted electro stuff before, but generally it falls into a category that would be happily be listened to by first year university bitches as a means to pump them up before they went to the bar and ordered, like, a million jagerbombs. This is different. This is good.

The thing I like most about dubstep is that it generally runs at a low bpm (around 140) and has recently started using half-time bass and snare rhythms, which outline the melody thickly. It’s space, so you can actually hear what’s going on. Think of it this way: the human heart beats at about 70 bpm, so when the bass or snare in a dubstep mix halves the predominant beat it’s syncopating, roughly, with your pulse. This makes two things happen:

1) your body responds physically to what is happening aurally

2) your heart explodes in your chest because it can’t take it.

… this second part is mostly fiction, but give this a listen and tell me you don’t want to furrow your eyebrows, open your mouth like an idiot and nod your head (like yeah).

tons of youtube and myspace links – here’s something to get you started.

Also,

check this out – it’s kind of a long video, but the double drop at 4:51 is transcendent