To the uninitiated, dubstep might seem like some teenage music produced on Playstations in between breaks of World Of Warcraft and Final Fantasy sessions. This lecture session transcript might make you re-think though, as Mala of one of dubstep’s premier crews, Digital Mystikz, gives up the goods on the Barcelona couch, proving that dubstep is in fact a natural extension of the UK bass music continuum by adapting the best elements in style and ethos to shape a new sound dimension for the now generation.

In the last few years, the DMZ club in London has become the central night for the dubstep scene, if not a kind of its spiritual centre. As it's taking place in the back of a church in whose front part actual services are still held, you might think DMZ's slogan "Come and meditate on bass weight" is just a cheap promotional joke. The dedicated vibe of the crowd later that night in Barcelona's Macarena club (more like a chapel than a church: 74 people capacity + Funktion One soundsystem = rib cages rattling) transplanted the DMZ experience perfectly leaving even the most skeptical clubbers with happy faces as we all witnessed what seemed to be the bastard child of a DMZ club night and the legendary Metalheadz Sunday Sessions. While Mark Pritchard gave a history lesson in UK bass music, starting his DJ set with the Ragga Twins and landing on dubstep soil via classic drum 'n' bass tunes, Mala on the other hand, began his set with an ambient tune by Mark before going straight into DMZ's own Anti War Dub, sending the exhausted but happy crowd into a frenzy. Why can't all initiation ceremonies be like this? Oh, how I wish to be a teenager again...

BONUS:
Mala Lecture Session Video
Catalunya Calling - Mala (Digital Mystikz, DMZ, London)
Fireside Chat - Mala (Digital Mystikz, DMZ, London)