Renato Pagnani invented street fraiche.  Electronic music is crowded. Buzzwords like footwork and wonky are tossed around in reference to specific sounds explored by a few artists. Starkey made his name defining “street bass” over the last few years—an American-led permutation of electronic music — taking the suffocating lower-end of dubstep and the syncopated snap of […]

Sach O thinks that song title/credit list is a mouthful. Now here’s a curve ball. Essentially crafting a full-on Funky House jam out of Philly gunners Starkey and Curly Castro’s Marvel backpack epic “Gamma Rays,” production duo The Elementz haven’t so much made a V.I.P edit as an entirely new track. Ironically, while Starkey’s self-proclaimed […]

Photo by Liz Padova Three weeks ago, I ran through the increasing numbers of rappers finding inspiration in contemporary bass music (no Da King & I).  Through unintentional oversight, I didn’t include Zilla Rocca and Curly Castro, who have been rapping over dubstep and D&B tracks since before brostep became the popular perjorative (and it […]