Blog: WRMC 91.1 Middlebury College Independent Radio

If you've been keeping up with the post-dubstep dance music scene at all -- which hopefully you have, 'cause there is some amazing electronic music being made right now -- you've probably noted the pervasive presence of a few qualities: vast empty spaces, ominously echoing beats, seismic-grade bass, chopped-n-screwed vocals, ironically appropriated Top 40 hip-hop/R&B signifiers, and a generally cold, gothed-out atmosphere. Looks to me like it's the combined influence of Burial's Untrue , the Knife's Silent Shout , J Dilla's posthumous Donuts , and first-wave U.K. dubstep in the flattening, democratizing era of the internet. Not [...]