Labrinth is one of the hottest new prospects in world music, as well as influencing and creating some of the most popular dubstep songs this year. By creating a distinct style of hip hop-sounding dubstep-pounding R&B hits, Labrinth has begun to bring the beats of dubstep to the mainstream.

His debut album, Electronic Earth, was released on the 2nd of April, 2012. Positive reviews from critics abound, yadda yadda yadda. All you really need to know is that this album has the potential to (and already has) created some of the hottest new dubstep sounds this year. Second single Earthquake, featuring Tinie Tempah is the one everyone in the UK has heard played to death lately on the radio, but don’t forget to check out third single Last Time for a more synthpoppy electronica influenced sound.

While you’re around, you might as well check out a few remixes. Electronic Earth comes packaged with a series of remixes, including Noisia’s remix of Earthquake, a throbbing, epic heart-stomping of a remix, drawing upon the dubstep influences of Labrinth’s original track, and injecting a good measure of requiem for that classy sound.

Check out Labrinth’s Soundcloud account here, featuring a host of Earthquake remixes, along with the original sound. Definitely worth a listen if you’re looking for popular dubstep songs. Hell, why else you be here?

Beginning in the breakbeat and mainstream electronic genres, Bassnectar’s first releases dabbled in the experimental, numbering an entire album “1 – 15″; guess the industry tools were a little pissed about that. His first forays into dubstep arguably came about with 2007′s release Underground Communication, as underground dubstep appreciation spread from the United Kingdom over to San Francisco.

Bassnectar also has a taste for collaboration, building up a rogue’s gallery of talented collaborators in his body of albums, all the way from Ellie Goulding, to Lupe Fiasco on his most recent release. You might find collaboration in semi-mainstream dubstep a sell out – you’d be wrong. Bassnectar has never sounded better, and input from additional artists can only serve to broaden the spectrum.

While Bassnectar ain’t exactly quite as popular as the mainstream (sell outs, to some of you purists) artists like Skrillex, he can still put on one hell of a show. His newest release is this year’s Vava Voom, released through his own label, and pulsing with pure intravenous dubstep energy. Like it? Go see the guy put on a show, he’s been touring for a decade now, and no dubstep artist gives a better performance live. The latest single from his aforementioned album Vava Voom is available for a quick listen here – give it a try, and open your ears to something other than Skrillex, jerk.

While we don’t know anything about the album as of yet, they have been confirmed as playing the UK’s Download festival 2012. UK readers, if you’re a real dubstep fan, get yourself down there, represent.

Meanwhile, here’s an offering from No More Idols, the lead single from that album, Let You Go, directly from the duo’s official youtube page.

While this track has met a mixed reception from the critics, the club scene seems to be going crazy for it, so why the hell not?

(Video sourced from musician’s official youtube channel)

What’re your thoughts? Think this song’s shit hot? Or are you sick of this repetitive little dickshit and his dumbass hair? Comments on a postcode, people (or down below in the comments, alternatively)