Billy Blacklight

Photo Credit: Erik Lauritsen / North Bass Media

If you don't know (Profresher) Billy Blacklight, you can start your education in our recent Q&A with one of Minneapolis' most prolific beat slangers.  He recently contributed, along with an all-star cast of electronic music illuminati, to SubSynthesis' Bass From Above: Vol. 2 release.  Connect with his Facebook page and you'll receive a steady stream of his new creations and a wealth of music keen to his ears.

The video below was taken from his recent performance opening for MartyParty at the Loft (Sept. 16, 2011), and 507 is stoked to share our first video of his stylings to date (took long enough).  There is more video from his set, maybe it'll surface later on...until then, enjoy!

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MartyParty in Minneapolis

Photo Credit: Brittnie Kelly / @purpdino

MartyParty made his debut solo performance in Minneapolis last Friday (Sept. 16th, 2011), almost two years to the day since his last performance in the area (at that time playing with Ooah as PANTyRAID).  In the interim, 507 caught Marty earlier this year at the Double Door in Chicago for the Monsters of Bass tour, where his set had a much stronger emphasis on dubstep.  His recent solo performance in Minneapolis, on the other hand, was a consummate showcase of his purple stylings, while still serving the audience crushing dubstep (as provided in one of his latest tracks, Ice Cream Truck) in true Marty fashion.

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Live-Blogging: Ana Sia

507projex is attempting another live-blogging session tonight at the Loft in Minneapolis for the super-radtastic return of Minnesota's very own bass-slanger, Ana Sia. Hopefully the Squarespace iPhone app cooperates...See ya there!

Figured

507projex presents, “Figured.”  Figure performed at the Loft in Minneapolis May 14^th, 2011, brought to you by local dubstep heroes, Twin Cities Dubstep. 

As dubstep’s ubiquity has continued to pervade the electronic music scene both nationally and internationally over the last several years, I must say the unrelenting onslaught of sub-sonic bass nasty can get to a fellow.  Granted, my preference for dubstep is muted in comparison to the ravenous thirst Minneapolis has for the genre, so it is not hard for me to become disillusioned and perhaps (aghast!) a bit bored with the style.  In fact, this is essentially the trending of my thoughts regarding the music over the last two years.  However, this is not to say that I dislike dubstep.  That would be an insincere statement.  I do like dubstep, sometimes I just need a break from it—or, I need someone to come along and drop kick me in the mouth with bass lines that tickle LFO fancies I never knew existed.  Such a drop kick was delivered, in full force, some months ago when TC Dubstep posted Figure’s track, The Werewolf.

I literally could not stop listening to it.  Whenever I was in the mood for an absolute brawl with bass, I would turn to Figure.  His tracks are as in-your-face as dubstep can get, foregoing the emo-ish hooks of Skrillex and the at-sometimes redundant robot sex of Excision.  Terming his style “Monsterstep,” Figure injects a horrifying freshness into the scene that must be heeded; dubstep producers that fall complacent, those that continue to churn out the same ol’ dubstep, ought to pay attention.  Because Figure is unearthing continents of untilled dubstep, and he is taking his sound with him straight to the top.

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