In a new podcast, dubstep-genre leader Rusko touches on “subjects from his upcoming O.M.G.! album (due on Mad Decent in early May), to the origins of dubstep, to how he got started in music, to his favorite things about America, to his top songs of 2009 and more.” (These favorite American things include the weed and Mountain Dew.)

Like 90 percent of the main dubstep guys come from garage [music]. The sound kind of evolved from UK garage, and that sort of bassline, two-step sound is where dubstep came from. And it does have a lot of those aspects in it. And I mean, especially my music does now. The stuff I make now is a lot less dub-wise than the the stuff I used to do a few years ago. But it’s still very musical.

I just started making more varied and sort of differeent tracks. The sort of dubstep I make now is more like sort of electroey dubstep. I use a lot of kind of like funky 80s retro synth sounds. Like, I have a talkbox that I use to sing on like 50% of my tunes at the moment. […] It’s gone from being more organic to a lot more electronic. But, it’s good, I mean it’s still really vaired. On my album there are some reggae tracks, straight strait up deep reggae trcks, there are some kind of nasty, hard, dance-floor sort of drum-and-bassey style, dirty tracks, and there are some tunes that sound like disco. I’ll be sining “funky idiot.” You’ll see that track that says “Rusko featuring Funky Idiot.” That’s just me — my singing guise.

Check out the full podcast here on the Mad Decent blog.

Rusko’s album O.M.G.! will feature guest appearances from Gucci Mane, Crookers, Amber Coffman (Dirty Projectors) and others. The album’s first single “Woo Boost” will be released this month. (You can pre-order it now at maddecent.com.) We’ll also see Rusko collaborating with MIA, Diplo, Santigold and Hot Chip this year.

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