Psonikadia

electronica

Betacell now out.... http://www.xynthetic.com/xsn045.php ,,,and the review is here... http://www.412limited.co.uk/dub-step-db/featured-dj-producer/psonikadia Psonikadia, aka Nick Aitchison, is producer from Brighton who's regularly seen performing around the city at some of the most well respected nights going. Most recently he played at the Beat Redemption gig in support of Starkey and Darkstar. It's not hard to pigeon-hole Psonikadia's style, but it would negate all the hard work that has clearly gone into his music. On the surface the framework is dubstep - however the complex structuring and strong hints of other genre influences make this music slightly more compelling than your average dancefloor dubstep banger. The obvious dubstep elements are there - offbeat drum patterns, dark atmospheres, heavy basslines and the obligatory abundance of delay on certain elements. These interweave with the obvious influences of garage and grime seamlessly using double time rhythms and shuffling drum hits to create something that spans these genres with ease. What lurks under the surface of this release though is something more industrial, something more dark and yet not your average dubstep darkness. It doesn't sound like your standard brain-tearing, club smashing, filth-rinseout, 'brostep' music. Instead it's taken the dubstep sound back to its roots and then worked the filth from that level instead - rather than making an upfront, heavy as fuck and nasty tune. To get an idea of w...