What ever happened to dubstep as we knew it in America? Some say it was a dead genre even before it broke out here in the US. Its hay day had come and gone before most Americans heard it, before the resurgence of that awful acronym EDM, the sort of empty (even more esoteric) descriptor equal to ‘electronica’ – used by adherents to the traditional music model who can’t wrap their head around anything more complex than a superficial catch-all label. Pangaea, as a component of the Hessle Audio imprint, may have been one of the few to whisk parts of the real sound away before it too had been raped, but even when you listen to a mix like this, it’s post- just about everything. Still, the music conjures up imagery – this track in particular off his new gives me the sensation of hanging out in some cyberpunk sky bike garage, with glowing purple ion motor fuel dripping into puddles to mix with space beer on the ground, and thugs with mohawks and artificial limbs going about their agenda for the day.

Posted in Music Posted by on Oct 20 2012 12:00 pm

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