“The bass line is the most important part of Dubstep. It is difficult to describe the music in the words of music website Allmusic, it is ‘tightly-coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals’.īritish dubstep producer Rusko, who was headlining the festival in Bangalore along with Nero, says that Dubstep is the craziest form of electronic music. It emerged in London in the 90s along with being rooted in forms of music such as drum and bass and reggae, it is said that Dubstep owes its birth to Jamaican party sounds prevalent at the time. India might have hosted its first Dubstep festival in Bangalore last month (sponsored by Smirnoff), but this variant of electronic music has been around for a while. But standing in Bangalore on a cold night, surrounded by young things throwing their heads and bodies around, I found myself doing the same. As a Dubstep virgin, when I watched a few Dubstep YouTube videos the night before, I couldn’t get the charm of this music.

They are playing their huge hit- Crush-and the trio, comprising Daniel Stephens, Joe Ray and vocalist Alana Watson, stand on a stage called the ‘cloud’, which looks like it’s a floating creation of cloth squares stitched together, shooting out rays of light and smoke. Bangalore plays host to India’s first festival of this variation of electronic music, and surprisingly, as many as 2,000 people turn upīritish Dubstep biggie Nero is on stage.

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