07 Nov Bassweight: A Dubstep Documentary by The SRK
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.
A phenomena which crosses all genres and music lovers, the dubstep genre has been praised due to its encapsulation of the euphoric dance, trance and house formats as well as the murky production credits of Garage and Grime. So when three of the genre’s powerhouses came together to form a superteam, anticipation for a release ran across a majority of music platforms.
Producers and DJs Benga, Skream and Artwork are