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Datsik is the stage name of bass music producer and DJ Troy Beetles. He took the name from his old Xbox Live gamer tag.

Beetles is from British Columbia, Canada, a generally deeply mellow place. But it’s also a somewhat sun-deprived part of the country, so that might explain Datsik’s dark sounds. He’s an avowed Wu Tang Clan fan and his 2016 EP “Sensei” opens with a suitably exotic snippet of Japanese zither, which connotes dedication and focus before shifting into a forest of slicing robotic laser sounds and punishing beats.

Datsik seems to have a taste for flexed sounds used as rhythmic accents — like someone who’s using a gnarly overdriven synth sound in the same way a DJ would cut and scratch on a turntable. Datsik has collaborated with dubstep and hip-hop artists, and his music is at that point of intersection between electronic music, hip-hop, a gamer aesthetic and horror movie soundtracks. It’s a strange mix of ominous and hyper. If some producers like to stack on details in dizzying layers, Datsik has a surprising restraint, allowing the dredged textured of his bass sounds and the drive of the beats to propel many of his tracks without a lot else.

Datsik brings his Ninja Nation tour to the Webster Theater, 31 Webster St., Hartford, Thursday, Jan. 26, at 9 p.m. $25-$35. 860-525-5553 and webstertheater.com.