Looks like Deyv from Eighty-Eight D.C. followed through on the promise he made in the comments section of our Q&A with DJ/producer Martyn last month: Tonight’s showcase for Eighty-Eight’s weekly Loda series will feature a set from the Dutch-born, Virginia-based bass superstar himself, along with a whole host of local talent.

Martyn’s debut album, Great Lengths, is out now on his own 3024 label, and it’s pushing all the right buttons with its masterful synthesis of dub, techno, house, and, of course, bass. But tonight is your chance to hear Martyn’s chest-caving compositions in their natural habitat — the dancefloor.

Tracing the global proliferation of dubstep’s subsonic frequencies over the past few years, it makes some sense that Dutch DJ Martijn Deykers (aka Martyn) was lumped in with the genre as it spilled from South London’s FWD>> dancefloor. The chest-caving bass and shuffling riddims exhibited on Martyn’s string of 12″s and remixes in 2007 and 2008 did share common ground with the London crowd, and catapulted him to international acclaim.

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