May 22, 2013
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Posts tagged: Gothic Dancehall

Dungeons + Dancehall: Watch The Bug’s “Kill Them/Louder” Video

Words by Jesse Serwer—

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Before Tommy Lee Sparta got all “Psycho” and started calling himself “Uncle Demon”—in fact, before Tommy Lee even hit puberty—Kevin Martin was making gothic dancehall under his pseudonym, The Bug. A veteran of Britain’s industrial scene, Martin’s music wasn’t exactly dancehall—it was too outsider-y to call it that—but a savvy derivative of it that combined modern Jamaican electronic production style with dark, less danceable elements of European electronic music. Now, they call what he was doing then dubstep.

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Video: Tommy Lee Sparta is a “Maniac”

Words by DJ Theory—

 

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Check It Deeply: Caribbean Music’s New Dark Side

Words by Jesse Serwer—

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Haleek Maul is a 16-year-old kid making some of the grimmest rap we’ve ever heard from a yute. Notably, he’s from sunny Barbados, home of Alison Hinds, Ri-Ri and Cropover. Maul was born in New York, and spends his summers here in the States, which perhaps helps explain his inclination towards dark imagery and woozy, creepy beats a little more. Witness his latest video for “M00N,” off of his recent collaborative LP, Chrome Lips, with Chicago producers Supreme Cuts. Directed by the editor of Vice, the visuals are bathed in horror-movie reds. Nothing we haven’t seen before, but the sort of thing we haven’t really seen from the Caribbean, with one notable, recent exception

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