Sach O was pleasantly surprised by this one. I don’t know what I hate more: lazy, uninspired hard-Dubstep or lazy, uninspired music journos complaining about hard Dubstep. The former is unlistenable and has single-handedly given the genre a bad rap while the later has resulted in some of the worst stylistic discrimination in music writing […]

Sach O once tried durian. It’s raining cats, dogs and other assorted animals in Montreal today which means I’m staying home, nursing a hangover, listening to The Wailers and Lee Perry’s African Herbsman and pondering the path Reggae might have taken had Bob Marley not become a rock star. I’m also enjoying this ultra-deep Nina […]

Son Raw is Sach O for those who don’t know. Summer Jamz is an ever-changing experience for me. When I dropped my first mix in the series way back in 2008, I was traveling the South-Asian seas and decided to send something in a whim because I hadn’t done any music writing in 6 months. […]

Sach O is surprised his neighbors haven’t killed him yet. Their ceilings must be rattling. Mala commands the kind of awe among Dubstep fans that goes beyond simple respect into the realm of sheer idolatry. The kind of musical presence that has your annoying old uncle yelling “Clapton is God” years after the fact and […]

Sach O speaks primary colors. He’s not fond of British spelling though. Kromestar is a DJ’s producer. His tracks are long, evolving lockstep affairs that feel custom-made for a selector’s able hand and for a massive sound system’s rumble. Paradoxically, he’s also on his third album after 2008 dread-bass infused My Sound and 2009’s heavy-metal […]

Sach O will get really excited about this stuff if producers start getting French emcees to rap on it. Mafia K1 Fry maybe? I don’t know why I’m biased against French House but let’s face it, I don’t listen to or write about much French House. I love classic French Hip-Hop and rank the country […]

Sach O would review another album but all he listens to are Rinse, mixes and singles. Badman graphic designer, even badder-man DJ and all around good dude Construct from J’Aime le Dubstep just sent over this mix by Belgian producer BunZer0, suggesting that I check it out. Given that his site posts many fine mixes […]

Sach O wishes he could look so easily disaffected. In the liner notes to Hotflush’s new compilation, there’s lots of talk about the label being a musical outlier. While I won’t disagree that their biggest success stories Mount Kimbie and Joy Orbison stand apart from easy genre classifications, I’d also posit that the label’s best […]

Sach O sticks to the ancient ways. Last night, Plastician tweeted that he’s pretty sure that Dubstep is bigger in America than it is in the UK. Cue the righteous anger. Still, it’s impossible to deny that the word has gained more traction in the U.S than any electronic music genre in recent memory, capturing […]

If Kode 9 was Don King, Burial would be nicknamed the messiah of monochrome. Thankfully, Steve Goodman’s hair isn’t that irate and William Bevan gets to preserve his semi-anonymous existence. But new Burial is cause for ceremony. I remember hearing neither of these last year, but I remember very little from last year or last […]