`Derived from queer expression of ‘the dolls’, the artificial life of a doll, the tension between the human and the machine, DOLLSTEP queers dubstep into something mechanical, camp, and dystopian. The line between social reality and science fiction is an optical illusion.`

`Dubstep emerged from displaced sounds, pressurised bass, syncopated rhythms out of step, half-time, and double-time coexisting. Drawing on dub, jungle, and the wider hardcore continuum, it was music built on the margins before hardening into a hypermasculine form that shed a deeper intersectional possibility. DOLLSTEP develops those sounds for gender expression and speculative future-making.`

`The project builds a trans-sonic fiction: a reimagining of genre through femme, queer, and trans artists working at the intersection of low-end electronics and cyber-feminist world-building. The DOLLSTEP curative framework and genre hybridisation is built from hyper sensibilities, exploring themes of transhumanism and postmodern feminism; technology as a tool for expression, the self by synthesising the real. `

`DOLLSTEP moulds electronic music culture from a site of comfortable displacement, building infrastructure needed to sustain trans spaces in nightlife.`