Mikrodot brings deep 140 dubstep to The Attic on Nov 14

The Chicago-born, Minneapolis-based producer headlines a late Saturday bill in Brooklyn with Shreztah and Packet Loss.

There's a particular kind of quiet that only happens inside a very loud room: the half-second after the drums drop out and the sub-bass is left hanging in the air. If you go looking for that feeling, Saturday, Nov 14 in Brooklyn is your night.

Mikrodot plays The Attic in Brooklyn on Saturday, Nov 14, with Shreztah and Packet Loss also on the bill. It's an 11pm start, so this one runs deep into the night. Tickets are through The Ticketing Co.

Mikrodot describes himself on his Bandcamp page as a dubstep producer working "in the 140 space," and says his music is about balancing restraint and impact. If you're not fluent in the shorthand, 140 is the tempo, in beats per minute, and the word that matters in that description is restraint. This is music that trusts space and weight rather than volume for its own sake: the drop that hits harder because of everything that was left out before it.

He was born in Chicago and is now based in Minneapolis, per that same bio, and his releases have come out on DUPLOC, FKOF and Artikal Music. If you want a sense of what you're walking into before next Saturday, tracks like "Flow State" and "Equality" on his Bandcamp are a good place to start. Put them on good headphones or a proper speaker; laptop speakers will lose most of what makes them work.

That's also the case for going out to hear this music rather than streaming it. Deep dubstep is built for a sound system. The low end that barely registers at home is the whole point in a room, where you feel it in your chest before you hear it. A late-night bill with three acts gives the night time to build, and an 11pm start means the room should be finding its groove right around when the headliner takes over.

Restraint and impact, at 140 beats per minute, after 11pm in Brooklyn.

There's no earlier Brooklyn show for Mikrodot in our records, which makes this a first chance for a lot of local listeners to catch him in a room. Shreztah and Packet Loss fill out the bill, and on a night built around a sound this specific, the openers are a big part of how the room gets where it's going. Arrive in time for them.

A few practical notes. Bring earplugs: good ones won't take anything away from the bass, and your ears will thank you on Sunday. Check The Ticketing Co. listing for entry details before you go, and sort out your ride home ahead of time, since this one will run late.

For a certain kind of Brooklyn listener, a Saturday that starts at 11pm and ends somewhere near dawn, with a sound system doing the talking, is about as good as it gets. Mikrodot's music is made for exactly that kind of night.

Sources: Mikrodot — Bandcamp (mikrodot.bandcamp.com); Flow State — Mikrodot (Bandcamp) (mikrodot.bandcamp.com); Equality — Mikrodot (Bandcamp) (mikrodot.bandcamp.com); Mikrodot, Shreztah, Packet Loss tickets — The Ticketing Co. (theticketing.co)