When first encountering the name Dicqbeats, one might expect a low-key electronic performance. Instead, mastermind Quentin Pagtakhan delivers a brilliantly caustic cybergrind that declares absolute war on the conventional.

Pagtakhan got his start playing in metal and punk bands as a teenager in the D.C. area, a background that heavily informs his aggressive approach to electronic production. As Dicqbeats, he fuses jackhammering industrial grime with simultaneously chill and frantic drum ’n’ bass homages, creating a whirlwind tour through a neon-lit cybernetic underworld.