When inthemix got on the phone to Canadian bass-bender Datsik this morning, he was still buzzing about his last few weeks on the Identity Festival tour. Rolling around North America in a fleet of tour buses with like-minded dudes Skrillex, Pretty Lights and Nero proved to be as much of a mad-house as it sounds, and everywhere they went the kids came to let loose.

Datsik belongs to a very particular fraternity of noisemakers from the US and Canada whose full-throttle sound taps right in to the fervour of the hometown crowd. Having carved out their own niche in dubstep and its many bass-heavy offshoots, Datsik has noticed a fracturing with the original scene borne out of UK dancefloors.

“When you talk to people from the UK, they say Canada and the US are all about noisy dubstep,” he told inthemix. “But I think that the only reason it’s like that is because Canada and the US haven’t really experienced good, deep dubstep on a big system. It was never introduced like that.

“So it’s really hard to get some of these big UK producers who started the genre over to the US, because kids have never heard of them. It’s hard to fork out the money to bring these big heads over and have them play a show of deep dubstep when kids have no idea. That’s why the noisier stuff tends to do well over here. It’s just party music.”

With the sound booming Stateside, it’s anyone’s guess how much bigger it can get. However, Datsik is wary of producers attempting to “out-noisy” each other, resulting in a mess of migraine-inducing tunes.

“I think as long as producers become more musical, you can’t really fail,” he reasoned. “You can have a crazy, filthy, heavy drop, as long as you still make it a song. I want people to listen to my music five years down the road and it’s not super-passe.”

Datsik will of course be packing his bags in November for Stereosonic, where he’ll be back on the road with Pretty Lights and his buddy The Gaslamp Killer. “It doesn’t matter what I’m playing – it can be dubstep or electro – kids are jumping around,” he added. “What’s the point of sticking to one tempo?” Sounds like he’ll find a friend in BT.