Caspa - Everybody's Talking, Nobody's Listening (Fabric/Subsoldiers) Caspa's been there. Through every increment of the history of dubstep, he's stalked its trajectory from filthy little basements in Croydon to the colossal megaclub that is Fabric. He's set up labels that have thrown maestros such as Rusko into the shining limelight. As for himself, he's been rather bashful about getting his own music out there. Or maybe he's just a perfectionist. Engage in a conversation about music with most adolescents and you'll find them trying to wedge dubstep knowledge in at any opportunity, however inappropriate (no, the folk movement of the 1970s did not inspire Benga's "sick choons"). Although seemingly nodding towards this with the album title 'Everybody's Talking, Nobody's Listening', Caspa knows that dubstep is the genre du jour and consequently tries to appeal to all camps. There are uncompromising sub-bass earthquakes like 'Low Blow' and 'I Beat My Robot', paeans for the purists with melody being a scant framework for relentless, filthy beats. This is dubstep at its finest, which doesn't care whether you like it or not (it's rather apt that one of these songs is called 'Marmite'). But when Caspa attempts to entice those at the fringes, he fails disastrously. 'Lon-Don City' sounds like a crippling Akon cover with the bass turned up, and 'Disco Jaws' would be fine were it not featuring the single most annoying cockney in the world speaking in Chipmunk to himself. Caspa knows how to do it old school, and maybe he should just stick to what he knows best to keep his aficionados salivating. GB Review originally published by CMU Music Network www.cmumusicnetwork.co.uk Next