Toggle navigation. Menu Search. Add to Cart. Product Options. My dad was a record collector, he was mainly into punk but collected everything across the board.
There was always a lot of that music in the house growing up. Musically I had everything going on around me. So I was on stage before I was even born! She used to play the mandolin too. Caspa and Rusko were given three days to deliver their mix. It was, in many ways, just like any other show—except the club was empty, it was 4 p.
The final recording was mastered on Tuesday morning, burned to CD on Wednesday, and promo copies were in the post by Friday. The unusual time pressure meant the tracklist was selected from a limited pot. No easy task: By , dubstep had coalesced from its initial pairing of dark garage and jungle into a recognizable style, and it was already beginning to mutate.
Sub-shoots were spreading outward—first by word-of-mouth, then online—from London, where it had originated. Factions were forming, each with their own devoted advocates and critics. Caspa and Rusko were flying the flag for their very own variant of the sound: loud, rude, and rowdy, with a dash of dub sensibility Rusko styled his debut EP cover on photos of Haile Selassie. It was also a premonition of a cultural shift that would soon prioritize attention over everything: The listening equivalent of scrolling through social media, presented with an unending, increasingly bewildering stream of content designed to not just to shock or entertain you, but to keep you rolling your thumb back for more.
Now, hits are minted on TikTok. Scenes no longer crystallize on mix CDs. On July 1st, , smoking in pubs, restaurants, and nightclubs became illegal in the UK. Playing more daring tunes now carried the added risk of half the dancefloor departing for a roll-up.
For dubstep in particular, a sound that in its early days attracted a distinctly red-eyed crowd, this represented an especially significant shift. The jury was in the smoking area. At the same time, in Cambodia, there were raids and clampdowns on the production of safrole oil—a key component in the production of MDMA. By , it was the fourth most popular drug among clubbers in the country. Its white-powdered appearance, extreme moreishness, and attractive price point at a tenner a gram, it was at least four times cheaper than the going rate of what was being sold as MDMA at the time all contributed to the boom.
The fact that it was also legal and very easy to come by made it appealing to those dabbling in their first tastes of adult freedom—which, for many, included going out to clubs and listening to exuberant dance music of the kind plied by Caspa and Rusko.
Dubstep, born under a cloud of weed smoke, sounded different with a sprinkle of synthetic amphetamine. This was good, dumb fun. Even if its legacy has been more dumb than fun.
The rush to assemble the mix goes some way to explaining its truncated style. Tracks slam from drop to drop, with little by way of crossover, fade, or creative combination.
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