Sweat pouring down each audience member jumping up and down. Bass pumping through the speakers with the power of a field of racehorses. Lights, bright and effervescent, flashing and scattering with the music.

These are the familiar symptoms of a dubstep show. These are to be expected at the Westcott Theater on Wednesday.

Flux Pavilion, or Joshua Steele, as he is known when not on stage, will perform. Doors open at 8 p.m., and tickets for the show have already sold out.

Steele is a disc jockey and dubstep producer originally from Towcester, England.  Steele is the co-founder of Circus Records, Flux Pavilion’s record label. Flux Pavilion has released four singles during the last two years that made the charts. His song ‘I Can’t Stop’ was sampled on Jay-Z and Kanye West’s joint album, ‘Watch the Throne,’ which gained viral fame March 5 for its role in the ‘Kony 2012′ campaign video.

Jon Kane, a sophomore percussion and music industry dual major, enjoys the type of electronic music that Flux Pavilion has come out with in the past.

‘All of their stuff has a lot of creative melodies and stuff,’ he said. ‘I just like his style a lot.’

Kane first stumbled on Flux Pavilion while YouTube searching when he was first introduced to the dubstep genre. He found one channel that featured Flux Pavilion and songs from other up-and-coming artists, including a group Kane described as ‘dudes in London who put together a lot of good music.’

It was also through these YouTube searches that Kane found the song ‘Gold Dust,’ a song by DJ Fresh featuring Ce’cile, a track that Flux Pavilion remixed in 2010. Though he discovered it about a year and a half ago, Kane claims it is still one of his favorite tunes.

Kane recognizes that Flux Pavilion does not necessarily write a lot of his own songs, but he isn’t bothered by it when listening to the music.

‘I can’t say he has a ton of his own songs that he plays,’ Kane said. ‘But I like his mixes a lot, ’cause he mixes a lot of stuff that you wouldn’t think of.’

Kane saw Flux Pavilion for the first time at the Starscape Festival in Baltimore, Md. Starscape is a 16-hour music festival consisting of 69 primarily dubstep bands and other electronic musicians.

Flux Pavilion performed last weekend on the main stage at Starscape with nine other groups. Kane, in addition to being impressed with the sheer size of the venue, was happy with the performance as well.  Steel was a lot of fun to watch, Kane said.

Kane recommended one song in particular for audience members to look out for when attending any Flux Pavilion show.

”Superbad’ is really good,’ said Kane, laughing as he attempted an impression of the song itself. ‘It’s got a really funny sample before the drop.’

cedebais@syr.edu

Published on June 12, 2012 at 12:00 pm

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