RA 961: Beatrice M.

dubstep everything but the drops 

tracklist part I
Sub Basics - Inertia 
Minnesota - Desert Diamond 
Sub Basics - Northern Lights 
Drone - No Future 
Ternion Sound & Enigma Dub - The Engineers 
The Others - Feedback 
Alix Perez - Deep Six 
Sorrow - Sheol 
manta - It Lurks 
Monty - Righteous 
Sorrow - Munscroft 
Motu - Flyte 
Moonstones - Yen Pox 
Somah & Nova - heart Sprint 
Alix Perez - Melodrama 
Cimm - Supreme Skank 
Shlump - Alien Technology 
Ill_K - Mirage 
Chad Dub & Somah - Unresolved 
Yoofee - Wings 
Samba - Un (VIP) 
N-Type - Carbon (Original mix) 
Shades - Into Stone 
Tsuruda - Migi 
Sorrow - The Twelve 
Artroniks - Extinction 
Rez - One by One
 ? - Gremlin 
Subtronics - Professor Chaos 
koTEI - ICHI (JFO Remix) 
Mirrorman - Convenant 
Rygby - Kenshiro (feat. Koma) 
Lifecycle, Nicon - White Light 
Congi - City Tales 
Distance - Oneness 
Dark Tantrums - Storm VIP 
Ebb x Texture - Enmesh 
Sicaria Sound - Lour 
Saule - Baro 
Loefah - Mud VIP 
Truant - Bushkin 
Josi Devil - Mouwld 
WZ - Tripod 
Visages - NIBIRU 
Headland - Levy 

tracklist part II
Truant - Untitled 4 (Y2)
Shut Up And Dance - Epileptic (Martyn’s No Strobe Mix)
Shu - Zero Sum
Slothman - Far I 
Coki - Tortured
Coki - Bloodthirst
TRG - Put You Down (Ramadanman Refix)
luke.envoy - So
luke.envoy - Uptown 
Geiom feat Marita - Reminissin’
Mantra - Mindgames 
Mala - Left Leg Out 
Truant - Bank Holz
Helixir - Atlantis
Youngstar - The Formula (Sirpixalot Remix)
Shandy - Tho Who
Wulf - Community Dub (Egoless Remix) 
BREEZ - Dem Vibrations
Peverelist ft. Pinch - Revival 
Loefah - Jungle Infiltrator
Loefah - Horror Show
Pinch - Punisher (Loefah's SE25 Remix) 
2562 - Channel Two 
Rossi B & Luca - Jah No Dead

Everything reminds me of dubstep

THE DUBSTEP - TECH HOUSE CONNECTION (FT. APPLEBLIM)

I started obsessing about dubstep crossed with techno, or “techy” dubstep, then I started looking back and realized that it was a crossover that had been researched since the beginning of 140 in the early 2000s (labels like Tectonic, SPE:C, Osiris, Timedance, Woozy, Hotflush all started with the intention of bridging a gap). 

Tech house was always presented to me as a cheesy commercial scene that wouldn't interest me. Guys in white shirts doing coke and wafting seemed like something I'd want to stay away from, but it was also kind of fascinating, in a weird way, I began to feel drawn to this no-go zone I knew nothing about. 

Much later, I realized I had the wrong end of the stick: just as dubstep gained mainstream recognition through the “sterilization” of its signature sound (most people know from Skrillex), the same thing happened to tech house (on this subject, see RA's “What Happened To Tech House?” video). These two highly specialized, high-quality genres have been victims of their own success. You have to peel back the layers to get back to the genre's roots, which are generously organic and soulful. 

Discovering older, more underground tech house or minimal tracks has been like a breath of fresh air. It's the most natural and authentic feeling, the one of swaying to 120 bpm and letting yourself be carried away by the rhythm with a naughty smile on your face.  
A lot of 'tech house' (or 'minimal') tracks have a very sparse quality, few elements and a lot of emptiness. It's also very bass-driven. Stripped-down and organic, deep, bass-driven, powerful, subtle... it's all starting to sound like another genre I really like: deep dubstep!

Dubstep devotees seem to have looked to other genres for inspiration when 140 hit a dead end in the 2010s and began to gain recognition in the US. I met Appleblim, an absolutely key figure in this crossover, and he was telling me how artists like Martyn, 2562, Shackleton... had this more “feminine” sound, not the “bro-step” vibe, it was already moving away from it, bringing in new influences because they were fed up with the caricature it was becoming. The dubstep don Pinch literally calls a track “Croydon House”(2010)because it has the sonic palette of dubstep but the BPM of house. I later discovered that this type of dubstep had already been named: Post-Dubstep!  

Tech house can be fun/quirky, but also very headzie, its repetitive nature can lead to a trance-like state. Similarly, dubstep, which has its own wild personality, can easily tip over into aggressive/clownish “WAB WAB”, but when it's deeper, it's very immersive, even if its “wob wobs” remain rascally. 

Going back to RA's video on “What Happened To Tech House?” they say his spiritual home is Croydon. And we know that's where dubstep comes from! The magnets are getting closer. 

Appleblim kept coming back to a club night held at Berghain that seemed to be a playground for exploration in the late 2000s: sub:stance (the first was in 2008).
The night's founder, Scuba, invited the likes of DMZ for their Berghain debut, while Panorama Bar featured minimal labels like Perlon. Appleblim told me that Berlin technophiles came to sub:stance to listen to this new syncopated sound (dubstep) and take inspiration from it for their music. 

Everyone was inspired by everyone else, and that's the heart of this crossover. This results in things like DJ Pete's RA podcast, full of that crossover sound. Appleblim told me that they all hung out together and exchanged records, that Bristol music was selling very well in Berlin. In addition, Shackleton is another important name, as you could say he comes from dubstep, having launched his label Skull Disco, which also releases Appleblim music. Yet he was later remixed by Ricardo Villalobos, probably one of the biggest names in tech house, who also mixed dubstep records, reducing their BPM to incorporate them into his sets!

THE DUBSTEP - TECH HOUSE CONNECTION

Living Room n°51 ~ @beatricemasters

q. pls introduce yourself
a. I’m Beatrice, a Franco-english DJ, producer and musician based in Paris, France. I’m born on the 16th of April 2000 in Paris and I grew up in the country side in Burgundy. I studied sound art for 5 years in Strasbourg and now I do music as my profession. 

q. is there a story behind the mix? how did it come together?
a. Dubstep and ambient being the main genres that I DJ, I thought I might make a mix that combines the two, like Gabber Eleganza’s Hardcore Soul Mixtape, where they take intros/buildups of hardcore track, but never leave the drop. So I took dubstep tracks with melancolic intros, bridges and outros, and made this ambient mix on Ableton. 

q. in your opinion, what would be the ideal circumstances to enjoy your mix?
a. That’s a hard question. I’d say in a train on your way to a party in a city. The dubstep samples will excite you for the party to come, but the ambient will make it nice to watch the landscape go by out the window with the sunset.

q. describe a favourite object in your living room...
a. I don’t really have a living room at the moment because I’m moving between studio or shared flats sublets for short periods, but I like to bring with me my perfume which has been Eden by Cacharel for the past 8 years and has a beautiful packaging that looks nice in a living space.

q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)?
a. I’m working on trying to produce music  which is a hybrid of techno and dubstep, and working on a label of my own that I will launch by the end of the year.

Living Room n°51 ~ Beatrice M.

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🧃Take a Sip EP🧃snippets

Magic

Magic (Techno Mix)

Magic (Dubstep Mix)

Enter Life

Calibre

Response

Call / Response

Call

Dubstep-tech hybrids from one of 2024's most forward-thinking breakouts.

Born in France to English parents, Beatrice M. is a product of two environments. And like many third culture kids, this lends the Rinse France resident and Bait label head a knack for seeing the realm of possibility beyond arbitrary borders and binaries.

Beatrice M. is a part of a wider cohort of artists spearheading an elastic take on dubstep: take Carré and Introspekt in the US, EMA in Dublin and Mia Koden in London, to name a few. Collectively, they are not only pushing greater representation and diversity, but ensuring a broader palette of sounds find home within the genre's renaissance.

Where dubstep got trapped down a brostep cul-de-sac in the early 2010s, 2020s already seems to be all about a charming phrase Beatrice M. employs: siblingstep. Their RA Podcast, a "full femme, non-binary, trans productions set," is testament to that.

RA.961 finds Beatrice M. embracing the softer, more intimate edges of their sonic world. There's cuts from Grace Jones and rRoxymore, a fresh tech-house venture under the alias B. McQueen and heaps of siblingstep. All in, it's an hour of past reverberations, present rhythms and glimmers of future horizons.

@beatricemasters

Read more at ra.co/podcast/961

RA.961 Beatrice M.

Everything reminds me of dubstep pt. II 

Truant - Untitled 4 (Y2)
Shut Up And Dance - Epileptic (Martyn’s No Strobe Mix)
Shu - Zero Sum
Slothman - Far I 
Coki - Tortured
Coki - Bloodthirst
TRG - Put You Down (Ramadanman Refix)
luke.envoy - So
luke.envoy - Uptown 
Geiom feat Marita - Reminissin’
Mantra - Mindgames 
Mala - Left Leg Out 
Truant - Bank Holz
Helixir - Atlantis
Youngstar - The Formula (Sirpixalot Remix)
Shandy - Tho Who
Wulf - Community Dub (Egoless Remix) 
BREEZ - Dem Vibrations
Peverelist ft. Pinch - Revival 
Loefah - Jungle Infiltrator
Loefah - Horror Show
Skream - I (Loefah Remix)
Pinch - Punisher (Loefah's SE25 Remix) 
2562 - Channel Two 
Rossi B & Luca - Jah No Dead

Everything reminds me of dubstep pt. II

The in-demand US DJ unfurls dubby, dance floor poetry.

Where does sentimentality fit on the dance floor? For Liv Klutse, AKA livwutang, the answer is everywhere. The New York-based DJ is guided by a deep desire to stir connection, finding themes and points of correspondence across an impressively broad range of sounds, tempos and eras. 

This emotional intuition lends Klutse's sets a depth few others can match. Her selections can seem unpredictable, rooted in an appreciation for feeling over genre—hard and soft sounds are carefully balanced with surrealism and bursts of nostalgia (for instance, the Lazy Dog bootleg edit of Everything But The Girl's "Tracey In My Room"). But as versatile as she is, a few signature traits colour her style, such as a love for dubwise music and rhythms from across the Black diaspora, alongside a refreshingly introspective energy that invites dancers to find moments of meditation—even during peak time. 

A former staffer at our New York office, Klutse has long merited an RA Podcast. Her slow-burning blends and mystical selections have graced near-enough every major festival and club out there, from Dekmantel and Sustain-Release to Nowadays, where she's been a resident since 2022. Despite this cross-continental touring schedule, she still plays plenty of grassroots venues—testament to her days with TUF collective and Orphan Radio in Seattle, as well as her enduring belief in the power of DIY, community-orientated dance music. 

"How did you come down off life?" James Massiah asks at the beginning of RA.975. Across nearly 90 minutes, Klutse's downright beautiful mix seeks answers to this question, reflecting on hedonism in times of political decay. She's in full-on dub mode, moving through meditative bassweight, glitchy house and flat-out weirdo techno with a deftness we've come to expect from one of the most promising, singular voices in dance music right now. She's got there all on her own terms—and we couldn't be prouder.

@livwutang

Read more and find the tracklist ra.co/podcast/975

RA.975 livwutang

Special guest shows from around the world. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/the-dubstep---tech-house-connection-ft-appleblim-12th-march-2025

The Dubstep - Tech House Connection w/ Beatrice M. (ft. Appleblim) 120325

Selection by @livwutang blends by Beatrice M. 

PANGAEA - YOU & I
VON D - SHOW ME FT. PHEPHE
APPLEBLIM & PEV - CIRCLING
PLASTICIAN - DREADING (EL-B REMIX)
EGOLESS - EMPIRE OF DIRT
SICARIA SOUND - CAVED IN
SHACKLETON - I WANT TO EAT YOU
SEARCH & DESTROY - CANDY FLOSS
J:KENZO - CONQUEROR (HENY G REMIX)
SCIENTIST VS ASBO - DOG MONEY (LOEFAH & SGT POKES)
DUBAMINE FT. NAZAMBA - COOL & RELAX
ULRICH TROYER - LOST IN ADDIS
FIEND - JAH HEAR ME (J. SPARROW REMIX)
FOAMPLATE - HUNGRY GHOST
GIL SCOTT-HERRON & JAMIE XX - NY IS KILLING ME
GEIOM - UNNECESSARY STRESS FT. MARITA
GLUME & PHOSSA - JITTER
KYLE HALL - GIRL U SO STRONG
MIZZ BEATS - SANCTUARY
GEOIM & APPLEBLIM - FLAME TREE
KODE9 - 2 FAR GONE
WALSH & KROMESTAR - PANIK ROOM
SAULE - AFFLICTION
THE GOD IN HACKNEY - THE WORLD IN AIR QUOTES (ETCH AMALGAMIX)
MARTYN - LOVE & MACHINES FT. SPACEAPE
TIMEBLIND - BACKWARDATION
BANDULU - CONTINGENCY
CARRÉ - AIR SIGN
VACCINE - WISHFUL THINKING VIP
RSD - LOVING IT
QUEST - EDEN
PANGAEA - YOU & I

Everything reminds me of dubstep pt. III - curated by livwutang

Cheek - Venus [touch my step EDIT]

Shallow, Light & Safe EP

Safe

Shallow

Shallow (Al Wootton Remix)

Light

@sepehr-a @specrecords
First time I came across SPE:C was through Sepehr’s elegant chugger « Roll the Dice », I’ve now had the opportunity to do my own take on it, very much inspired by 2010s techy dubstep from the likes of Asusu, Fureshu, A Made Up Sound, etc …channeling milimalism and nostalgia. 
Also on the remix pack is Jasmin’s halftime groover remix of my track « Calibre » part of the Take a Sip EP I did on SPE:C last year

🎲Sepehr - Roll The Dice (Beatrice M.’s dubble six remix)🎲

SPE:C Remixed 2

Beatrice M. - Calibre (Jasmín Remix)

Out to @martharadio for having me on the show
Pic by Gabriel Sauvageot

SSSLIP & Beton Brut - Transit Limb (Beatrice M. remix) (Grid)
Beatrice M. & Jan Loup - Shallow (Al Wootton remix) (Garmo) 
Beatrice M. & Sub Basics - untitled (dub)
Beatrice M. & Theorist - Tangent (dub)
Beatrice M. & Theorist - Come w us (dub)
Beatrice M. & Jan Loup - Si, j'adore (dub)
Sepher - Roll The Dice (Beatrice M.’s dubble six remix) (SPE:C) 
Trois-Quarts Taxi System - Coma (Beatrice M. remix) (forthcoming)
Beatrice M. & Sub Basics - Slowly Drifting (forthcoming) 
Beatrice M. - Seek (Soa420 gangsta remix) (dub)
Tim Reaper - Triumphant March (Beatrice M.’s school night remix) (forthcoming)
Beatrice M. - Magic (Slimy Ape remix) (dub)
Beatrice M. & Sir Hiss - Juice (dub)

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