SUZY STUMP: BEAT THIS SATURDAY NIGHT >>>

Dubstep â€" U .K. garage and grime's more forlorn, less MC-oriented cousin â€" has been incubating since 2000, but despite greater awareness via blogs and Internet forums, it's unlikely to blow up; most people just don't want to experience cranium-clamping bass pressure, entropic beats, and austerely melancholy melodies.

Nevertheless, seekers of innovative low-end music should keep tabs on what Matt Eklund’s Pacific Fusion Productions has in store for two October nights. Eklund and partnering company Lotus Inc. will blaze their own path into the dubstep realm by adding drum ‘n’ bass and electro into the dub zombies’ world Saturday night, then will follow it up with Night of the Living Dub Oct. 30.

Saturday, DJs dAb, Habit, Suga Jones and D:FI will take the London-centric genre's stark, haunted mutations of dub and slap it with some fun. There will be a raffle for Night of the Living Dub tickets, too.

“It will be a mix of ragga jungle, drum and bass, dubstep and dirty electro,” explains Suga Jones, a resident drum ‘n’ bass DJ for more than 10 years. “It's gunna be deep."

[Tempest Lounge, Saturday, Oct. 10, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., no cover, 913 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Tacoma, 253.272.4904]