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Sub Swara

Thu., May 6, 9 p.m., $15, with EOTO and Ryat, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com.

by K. Ross Hoffman

Published: May 5, 2010

dubstep/electronic

It was only a matter of time before dubstep got its very own Asian Dub Foundation. NYC crew Sub Swara can't be tagged and bagged quite so summarily, but their eclectically curry-spiced output — deliciously sampled on 2008's Coup d'Yah and multiple remix projects since — does as much as anyone to realize the genre's inherent potential for groove-heavy globalism, with an Eastern-leaning transcontinental take on East London riddims that folds in everything from ragga toasting to raga droning, Bhangra beats to Balkan brass.

Thu., May 6, 9 p.m., $15, with EOTO and Ryat, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com.

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