Words by Jesse Serwer—
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.
