Dubstep Trifecta

You'll have a choice among three dubstep thoroughbreds when the UK's Milanese, Distance, and Boxcutter gallop into SOMA this week. Of these, Milanese is the warhorse, his beats all stompers, his bass menacing and heavy, and the distorted ragga vocal samples disturbed and unnerving. Distance, on the other hand, is a more solitary beast: His productions are spare and alienated, like a foggy midnight trot through the city's desolate dead-end zones. And Boxcutter is the most playfully skittish, roping elements of IDM, garage, and minimal glitch into his shifty dance tracks.