What separates a Subtronics set from a lot of dubstep is that the sound design itself is the performance — Jesse Kardon builds wobbles and off-kilter rhythms with a level of precision that reviewers keep describing as almost architectural, and his “Fibonacci” project in particular leans into that, fusing dubstep with house, techno, drum & bass, even indie rock textures into something that still somehow reads as one coherent set.
He grew up in Philadelphia playing drums through grade school before discovering EDM in high school, then started releasing music as Subtronics in 2013 — a fairly slow build until 2019, when “Griztronics,” his collaboration with GRiZ, went viral on TikTok and turned into a festival staple almost overnight. That single track did more to put him on major festival bills than the prior six years combined.
The same year, he launched Cyclops Recordings, a label built around experimental bass producers rather than just his own output — it's since put out music from acts like Level Up and HE$H, and both of his own albums since, Fractals and Tesseract, have landed in the Billboard dance chart's top five.