Hotflush Label's Mount Kimbie Hits the Electric Pickle April 9

• I always called them post-dubstep ever since I first heard them. Mostly a reactionary thing due to my personal history with the mother genre. Sub-bass + 2-step + 130-150bpm = Good enough for me Also, Sumsun is opening this show

• At the end of the day it doesn't matter what you call it as long as everybody comes out and feels the bass, raises their hands in the air, and dances their butts off. I'll see you guys there.

• This show is not to be missed. I flew to see them @ Bunker in NYC last year and it was a special evening with Cooly G and Sepalcure as well. Kimbie is a LIVE act and a good one at that and I would describe their music as good.

• You may be right buddy. As I say in my article, "it's easy for music critics to lump the entire mishmash under the dubstep genre." I'm just another idiot music critic.

• I would argue that Mount Kimbie has more in common with the energy and feel of early dubstep than Ultrablack or Sluggo but New Times doesn't hesitate to call that dubstep in a different article. You say that it's too ambient and experimental to be called dubstep but those are probably the two most common words I would use to describe dubstep to someone who has never heard it.

• Point taken. I realize that dubstep is a sound with a whole variety of permutations. Skream is just an example. However, I still disagree with Mount Kimbie being dubstep. If anything, they are closer to UK garage/2-step which is a precursor of dubstep. Regardless, their stuff is too ambient and experimental in structure to be categorically called "dubstep" in my opinion.

• Why shouldn't I think about calling it dubstep? Just because it doesn't sound like Skream is not a good enough reason. Blind Night Errand and Ruby are definitely dubstep tunes. Obviously not everything they put out sounds like that and they cross a lot of musical boundaries but it kinda sounds like you have a narrow idea of what dubstep should sound like. Since when is Kode9, Burial, and Loefah not dubstep anymore?

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