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"DJ Struggle's inclusion stems from the attention focused on dubstep, his genre of choice, as well as his boundless enthusiasm for the music, as evidenced by his three online mixes in less than a year's time. Dubstep's cavernous bass and skittering rhythms have percolated in London for years, but 2006 saw the sound peeking out from the underground and making inroads in the American club landscape.
The genre's mongrel beginnings (it pulls from dub, drum and bass, techno, and electro, among others) found producers and DJs approaching it from a few different directions, but mostly drum and bass. Struggle—aka Shawn Krali—came to it through house, electro, and a long musical hiatus. He began buying records in 1995 but stopped listening to electronic music not long after his 1999 arrival in Seattle.
Since then, Struggle has done all he can to sing the praises of dubstep, with an increasingly full slate of DJ appearances, the aforementioned mixes, and even trying his hand at production. Both "Absorption" and "Order 66" avoid the style's typical ominous overtones, with the former's tambourines and faster tempo lending the track levity and the drums revealing a definite techno heritage.
"For the first time, I'm feeling driven to produce something that doesn't sound like anything else, that pulls from my influences, the things that gave me the love of dubstep," he says.
While spreading the gospel, Struggle is wary of the hype that currently surrounds the genre. "There are lots of skeptics, because it's come out of nowhere after being underground for five years," he says. "Everybody's heard the word and some say 'I'm already sick of dubstep and I haven't even heard it.' But I hear more people getting really into it. I'm getting a lot of positive feedback. People are nodding their heads, and there are always a couple of people really stoked, saying that they've never heard anything like it."
Since electronic music is in constant flux, dubstep's future is left in the hands of its most creative proponents. "I don't know where it's going, but it just gets more and more diverse," says Struggle. "I don't know that dubstep will still be around, but I think it will spawn some new things. I see the potential in it. I really just want more people to hear it and understand the sound." "
Bug in the Bassbin
DJ Struggle - By Donte Parks
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=202526
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INSECTMIND/DUBSTEP INVASION/SUBSTANCE
Levitation Device
http://www.myspace.com/andrewluck
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http://www.myspace.com/dubstepfm [/B][/QUOTE]
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