Photo by Ændrew Rininsland. See the rest of the photos from Sled Island in our community gallery.

Dicken’s Pub smelled like dirty sex as drum and bass made passionate love to dubstep and delivered a new baby for all the freaks, metal heads, and bassnymphos to witness and nurture during Sled-Island’s only electronic music showcase featuring New York’s premier jungle DJ Dieselboy, June 24.

Calgary’s staple dubsteppers The Supreme Hustle got the bassline rolling and proved Cowtown can evolve and lead a movement just as well as any city as they laid down a frantic set of wobbly excess. MC Think Tank provided lightning fast, fist pumping, dread-lock thrashing vocals on several tracks, adding to the DIY connectivity of the growing Calgary electronic music scene.

As the positive vibes and beautiful girls filtered in, Calgary bass master’s PK sound rolled in two, over-the-top speakers that filled in the stage, this on top a myriad of speakers, woofers, cables, wires and light. The wall of sound was set for a surprise performance by Japan’s dubstep king Goth Trad.

Goth Trad’s eastern touch of dubstep was exposed to our inherently Western city as he whipped the crowd into frenzy, and at times alluded to the Jungle side of electronic life, laying the foundation for Dieselboy.

Everything was running perfectly late, and Dieselboy was worth the wait. Taking to the turntables at 12:40 a.m. his epic, movie-esque sound swelled into frenetic speeds, as the bass ripped the crowds’ insides into knots.

Near the end of the night the crowd grew thinner but arm hairs were still standing tall and the girls got a little lower, grinding it out on a Wednesday night with a collective of hard-core beat freaks.

The connectivity of dubstep and jungle proved successful last night, and one hopes the two genres can keep the sexual relationship strong, as the integration process seems to produce electrifying results.

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Written by :

Johnny Elbow