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![Bridging the Gap between Rock and Dubstep with Decadon [Artist Interview]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/0f1d58a9-50766612_1676327289066159_1486477044295401472_n.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
Dubstep’s newest heavy hitter, Decadon, will be joining the musical invasion this weekend at Phoenix Lights Festival in Arizona. Growing up in the neighboring state of Colorado, 23-year-old Decadon, or Donnie Miller, began playing guitar with rock bands in hookah lounges and shifty bars around the Denver area. Completely immersed in the Colorado music scene, Miller […]
![Kyral X Banko Rinse FiYah’s ‘Fragments’ with Massive Sound Design [Track Review]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/47acbdcd-kyral.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
FiYah’s ‘Fragments’ was given a wash by duo Kyral X Banko last week, and it’s the sleazy banger experimental bass heads have been waiting for. Crafting uptempo rhythms with speed, a firing of arpeggiator synths let us know right away to expect some massive sound design. The newly Denver based duo have built a solid […]
![Getter’s Big Mouth Tour Draws a Packed Warehouse at the Showbox SoDo | November 14th, 2017 [Show Review]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Getter3.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
Just three songs into the night, Getter raises the mic and calls for a mosh pit as he gestures at one section of the crowd. And like some messiah, the sea of people standing directly in the gaze of his finger began to part into a neat circle before chaos ensued as blurs of bodies […]
![JLEON unleashes his dynamic debut EP Nerve Damage on Sleeveless Records [Album Review]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/21192650_1994525740790248_8436782153790444618_n-1.jpg?resize=600%2C315&ssl=1)
Electronic
Imagine that you just dropped acid in the middle of a rainforest. What sounds do you hear? Do you hear the incessant chirping of birds and occasional howls from a monkey, or do you hear something else? Cupping your hand around your ear, you strain to hear a sound so familiar, yet you never expected […]
![Project Aspect releases 3-track EP, ‘Cortex’, via Mile High Sound Movement | June 13th, 2017 [Album Review]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/projectaspect.png?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
Project Aspect‘s latest 3-track EP Cortex is brief yet brimming with heavy bass. Based in Denver, Project Aspect draws influences from a variety of genres and the EP is definite proof of PA’s love for hip-hop, glitch and of course, dubstep. Each track is full of dubstep’s classic syncopated rhythms and all those groovy sub […]
![Abduction by bass and beats: Phoenix Lights 2017 was out of this world | April 8 + 9th, 2017 [Festival Review]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/phx.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
Article by Brandon Lopez and John Miller Phoenix Lights was a gathering that could not be missed by earthlings and aliens alike. With a bass filled sound system and floodlights shooting towards the heavens, it is nearly certain that interstellar beings intercepted our communications. While I can’t say I saw any abductions or probings happening, there […]
![Bass Center 2016 Brings The Bass To Unlimited New Heights [Show Review]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/bc1.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
Colorado hosted the first Bass Center in fall 2010 and last weekend, Lorin Ashton aka Bassnectar returned the festival to its’ Rocky Mountain roots. The ninth Bass Center was held July 29 and July 30 at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado. Bassheads went wild when the announcement for festival plans were made last […]
![[Photo Gallery] AudioHazard Massive with Funtcase B2B Cookie Monsta + Provokative | April 4th in New York City](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/11102708_10205648377036272_3205402914930118547_n.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
East Coast
Audiohazard Massive was an excellent heavy bass concert to show that filthy dubstep isn’t leaving our music scene without a fight! Getting to the venue wasn’t hard at all, with it being conveniently located in a wonderful part of Queens/Astoria. Featuring some of New York and Long Islands’ best upcoming producers and DJs with major […]
Electronic
If the kick ass shenanigans that ensued at last year’s BUKU Music + Arts Project are any indication of what’s to come, we can only imagine what’s set to go down in Nawlin’s this March! The stages, the pop-up street performances, the after parties that never ended – ready yourselves for the BUKU experience of […]
![[Photo Gallery] Rusko at Trees | Dallas April 10, 2010](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/27703_1257661656376_5718715_n.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
Christopher Mercer, better known as Rusko, is a British dubstep DJ who is largely credited with popularizing the genre here in the US, and his chaotic live presence. After releasing ‘Cockney Thug’ in 2007, the electronic dance music scene was flooded with several artists sampling this among Rusko’s other tracks, springing it into the radio […]