If there is a line between "serious" dubstep and the more rave-oriented sound championed by artists like N-Type, it's not one that Akira Kiteshi seems all that interested in honoring. With just a handful of EPs under his belt, Kiteshi has already become the name on everyone's lips when it comes to next-level dubstep.
Along with artists like Starkey and Raffertie, Akira Kiteshi's productions revel in their extremity, pushing dubstep's natural penchant for huge basslines and sound processing to its logical extreme. His "Pinball" EP was upfront in a way few dubstep records can claim to be, boasting a glitchy, electro-infused sound with a hip hop sound palette which then unexpectably ups and tempo and throws in a jungle break (on "Pinball"), or cuts off in the middle and then seemingly proceeds to restart the beat backwards (on "No Glitch").
To be sure, it's a sound that borrows from both the purist and rave ends of the spectrum, but also a throwback in some ways to the hyperbolic inventiveness of early breakbeat and drum n bass, where artists weren't yet boxed in by genre expectations, or maybe, just didn't care.
To be sure, it's a sound that borrows from both the purist and rave ends of the spectrum, but also a throwback in some ways to the hyperbolic inventiveness of early breakbeat and drum n bass, where artists weren't yet boxed in by genre expectations, or maybe, just didn't care.
With a remix for DJ Madd out recently and more productions on the way, Akira Kiteshi is clearly just getting warmed up.
