Dubstep is NOT for everyone - not even close.  It’s Jungle’s darker, less-optimistic younger brother.  And we all know that youth is all about being angry, and mostly having no idea why.

Musically, that’s dubstep…

At the intersection of electro-house and hip-hop (much of which based off old techno sounds, anyway) lies a fairly shallow puddle of big subwoofer-testing sounds and ideas lifted from other artists, decades, genres.

To get all meta on it, it’s too dark, creepy and slow for girls to dance to - but, if you’re 20 years old and on drugs, this crap probably sounds amazing.  It’s the sound-of-the-moment, and for the moment, it’s fine.

In small doses…

Thankfully, the geniuses at Ninja Tune Records gave us this 4 minutes of lovely fury.

I’ll say it over and over.  There’s no need for 4 hours of ANY one genre.  Let’s start with a powerful 4 minutes, and go from there…

Two Fingers, “Fool’s Rhythm”, from the amazing 2010 compilation, “XX: 20 Years”.  If you’re bored with your current music selections, here’s a free Amazon.com/Ninja Tune 20 20 sampler...