No Love

The creepiest, dirtiest and down right most uninviting genre of music to crawl up the basement stairs in the past few years has to be dubstep. We’re a world at war and this is the sound of the battlefield one day after the smoke has cleared. Its empty space, and air that’s almost too still to breath. You feel the bombs in the distance almost more than you hear them. There’s no reason to duck and cover because the violence has passed but there’s danger over the hills and you know one day its coming back around. Dubstep is a warning: leave before it’s too late.

This first dubstep omens came from the darkest corners of UK 2-step around 2001. As Garage made its way up the charts through sunny Craig David vocal numbers the Forward sound retreated as far from the light as possible, turning DnB and 2-Step in on themselves until new twisted hybrids like grime and dubstep were born. Today within its admittedly limited range of sounds producers like Digital Mystikz, Hatcha and Kode9 have pushed the genre into an ever more distinct and dub-ified direction with only minimal attempts at smoothing out the sound for the masses. One of the first attempts at accessible “dinner party” dubstep came last year from a team of producers with the most misleading name possible, Various. Their album The World Is Gone marries vocals with dubstep’s half-step lurch, crafting sub bass funeral dirgs that will blow out your speakers in mourning. The video below for their song “Hater” is on some 3AM MTV Amped Shit. A ball of nothing floating through space explodes into different objects. You don't need a Kanye sized video budget to back up a song like this, following the bouncing ball is more than enough.

Various- "Hater"