(Ministry of Sound)
A mate of mine, having recently gone to hospital for epilepsy treatment, reckons dubstep originates from MRI machines. Not just the sound – that grating thwack staccato thwack – but the inherent torture that comes with listening to dubstep: of not being able to switch it off, run away from it or kill it dead. And to think that Ministry of Sound has uncovered more dubstep to warrant Dr. Werewolf and Bar 9 each mixing up a separate disc of dubstep delights… well, I’m just gonna start fitting now. Skrillex and homegrown Pendulum get decent look-ins, but the rest sounds very same-same. Kinda like dubstep itself, really. Shoot me.
Scott-Patrick Mitchell