One of the fastest growing genres in the world today, Dubstep has its roots in London’s early Garage scene. Distinguished by its dark mood, sparse rhythms, and emphasis on bass, the genre’s rhythms are usually syncopated, and do not follow the four-to-the-floor pattern common to many other styles of electronic dance music, but instead tend to skip beats. Which explains the reluctance to dance. “It was ages since I was so excited by a genre,

I’m completely obsessed by it. A Dubstep night in London is highly recommended,” says BassSociety.

What is recommended is seeking out BassSociety’s Dubstep nights in the city, since he hasn’t zoomed in on a particular nightclub yet. Much like deejays Kris Correya and Tarun Shahani, who worked an ambitious one-off gig at Blue Frog, under the Happy Sing moniker. “We took the visuals and audio from my daughter’s favourite song, In a world of my own from Alice in Wonderland, and made it dance oriented,” says Shahani. The duo wants to put out an entire set with synchronised visuals and audio, duly twisted. “There is no electronic act in India that has two hours of original content for a set,” says Shahani, spitting out their intentions.

Correya, apart from initiating the Happy Sing combine, persists in his efforts to bring eclectic and fresh sounds to Mumbai, in his curatorial role as Zenzi’s resident deejay. “The minute you say downbeat in this city, everyone assumes its chill out music,” Correya says, referring the psychedelia-tinged Down Beat playing over the speakers when he takes over the decks. Down Beat is so niche that just four or five bands in the world are producing the music, says Correya.

As niche as Down Beat and just as groovy is the electronic resurrection of Disco Punk. “The genre has a lot of hardcore song writing involved, as opposed to just taking beats and putting them together. It’s simple without too many breaks and the vocals drive the rhythm,” says producer Sachin Shetty. “Like the ‘80s disco scene, Erasure, Depeche Mode, Rapture—the beats are monotonous but you get variety with percussion. It’s extremely underground and organised in people’s apartments. Actually, it’s anti-scene, most of it is free,” he adds, without letting us in on when the next gig is likely to take place at his Vashi apartment.

While most of these local artists have had to research the great www, one genre that suffers no dearth of albums put out is Putumayo, which enjoy a weekly audience, courtesy