The Safe In Sound festival is a touring extravaganza of DJs making its way around the country with different configurations of featured artists in different cities. When the tour comes to Connecticut, Borgore, Snails, Boombox Cartel and Terravita will be on the bill.
If the sound of early hip-hop was infused with soul, funk and disco because that’s what the earliest DJs and MCs were listening to, then maybe it makes some sense that the sound of dubstep has got video games, horror movie soundtracks and eclectic club mixes baked into its DNA because that’s what the people (mostly dudes) making this music are listening to. Pounding beats, dinky/retro keyboard sounds, ominous textures, trippy echoes and sounds pushed to the limit by processing to approximate frying circuitry, clanking machinery or the shuddering of a quasar all come into play.
Israeli DJ Borgore specializes in sounds that have been denatured, sanded raw until they’re almost completely abstract, frequently dropping the parts of a mix so they sound submerged in water.
Canadian DJ Snails (pictured) is a little more intentionally outrageous, playing a style he’s dubbed “vomitstep.” Snails’ music often brings to mind those sounds you experience when you’re driving in a car and there’s some mysterious rhythmic sound that signals unknown engine, brake or tire trouble.
The Safe In Sound Festival comes to the Dome at Oakdale Theatre, 95 S. Turnpike Road, Wallingford, Saturday, Oct. 8, at 7 p.m. $35 to $40. 203-265-1501, livenation.com.
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