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.

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RA.961 Beatrice M.

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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

Bristol-based @k_means operates at the fringes of electronic music. It's not tempo and genre that unites their sound, but more an exploration of mood and texture underpinned by bass-heavy low ends and hypnotic rhythms. The Noods, Rinse FM and Kiosk Radio regular is also resident at Bristol's Psychotherapy Sessions and will debut at Dekmantel Festival where you should fully expect to be taken into plenty of unknown musical territory.

It is the same with their mix for us this week - a wild trip into futuristic drum patterns and interplanetary sounds that melt the mind and contort the body. There is a constant push and pull between the organic and the synthetic with tribal percussion and warped vocals brushing up with bleeping synth modulations and experimental minimalism. It's a magnetic selection that's as much an imaginary movie soundtrack as it is a dance floor escape.

Dekmantel Mix 487 - k means

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Interview: https://truantsblog.com/2025/truancy-volume-353-james-k/ 

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With her forthcoming album ‘Friend’ set for release on @ad93rec in September, james K weaves memory and emotional directness into a sprawling map of love, euphoria, and intentful listening.

Music by Conna Haraway, Idoplumes, Terra Utopia, Marco Shuttle, Akio & Okihide, Marina Herlop, Carmen Villain, Konduku, MARMO, Pugilist, Pod & more...

Access the download and full tracklist (TBC) on our Patreon (patreon.com/truants). However if you need anything leave us a nice comment here with @jamesk_1 tagged and either of us will get back to you with an ID! Your support helps cover all our costs allows Truants to continue running as a non-profit and ad-free platform.

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