Early Tuesday evening, inside a nondescript North Hollywood studio, Troy Beetles, known to EDM fanatics as Datsik, is checking out the flood of images projecting against a structure that resembles the ...

Here in Vancouver, we tend to lose sight of the fact that, yes, there is art and culture—not to mention world-class music—in this province beyond the borders of the Lower Mainland. Take Kelowna; the ...

Datsik is ready to spend the nights on his upcoming Firepower Records Tour in a vortex. For real. The Canadian dubstep DJ and producer (ne Troy Beetles) hatched the idea for the vortex-shaped DJ boo… ...

“I think dubstep has become so huge because it’s a complete bastardization of electronic music,” exclaims rapidly emerging young producer and artist DATSIK. “There’s a little bit of everything thrown ...

On Sunday night, from the back of a cone-shaped DJ booth known as “the vortex,” dubstep producer Datsik turned the 9:30 Club into a vibrating cavern of thrashing limbs. The audience members, wearing ...

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 ...