A pioneering dubstep producer being featured as part of the London Jazz Festival might seem strange from the outside. However, Mala has a habit of breaking moulds.
The story of dubstep has been caught and written in silver on screen in a documentary just released by the SRK team. Bassweight is the latest film of The SRK, London-based modern chroniclers of key urban movements.
Dubstep is a London music child, shaped and produced by beat makers and rhythm players who built, from the foundations of dark dark garage and 2-step, a bass line so wickedly spellbinding it enraptured music lovers and spinners across the globe, from the UK to Amsterdam, Russia, Brazil all the way back again.
To tell the story of dubstep, the SRK zoom their lens close-up on this underground world as it once was, and has now become, taking for their narrator the voice of all the major players of the movement: from Dirrty Goodz of the Big Apple record store (vintage footage), Benga, Skream, Hijak, N–Type and Mary Anne Hobbs of Radio 1’s Dubstep Warz, to an ensuing impressive line up who subsequently picks up the narration.