“Rusko!…Rusko!…Rusko!” – the audience simultaneously chants. On Sat, April 10th, The Metro was jam-packed with dub-step lovers from Chicago. Rusko is a high energy, fun dub-step Dj who’s music has been sampled by renowned artists like Diplo and Caspa. You could feel the suspense as the bass-hungry people impatiently waited for Rusko to drop that beat. At last, Rusko opens up the night and is pumpin’ out beats. A mix of high frequency melodies above BB Gun could be heard. There were lazer sounding beats that went along quite well with Rusko’s high intensity jumping, thrusting, flailing – as he is pointing his hand-gun gesture towards the crowd and shooting it with every punch. The griminess of the womp was leveled out by some pop-female-trance vocals that were faded in and out. Finally, Rusko resorts back to the familiar by remixing Kid Cudi’s “Day N’ Night and Skreams’ Dutch Flowers.”
Major Lazer foam hands are bobbing up and down in the audience before flashes of multicolored lasers skim the heads in the audience. Major Lazer is Diplo and Switch’s side project with a Jamaican commando hype-man. Unexpectedly, two big bootied’, half naked women appear on stage shaking their bodies like mashed potato’s as one wild white-mo-hawked man yells random obscenities into the microphone. Apparently, the respected Diplo and Switch were mixing in the background, yet all of this pretend screwing on stage, and mow-hawk mans’ dropping his pants the floor became a bit of a distraction to the music. Diplo was mixing such an eclectic underground and versatile mix of music that included almost every track from ”Guns Don’t Kill People Lazers Do”. What really got the audience excited though, was when he hit us with “All That She Wants” – from the now-antiquated Ace of Base. Major Lazer’s entire performance undoubtedly had shock value and wasn’t your typical DJ set, however, it could have been accomplished in a bit more classy manner. Overall, the night was pumped full of high energy with blends of different music styles, new & old, that really gave it a provocative touch in the end.
