Introspekt Launches First Album ‘Moving The Center’ through Tempa

When Tempa Records breaks an eight-year silence, it’s not just for a comeback—it’s a statement. And that statement comes in the form of Moving The Center, the debut album from Introspekt, a producer whose work doesn’t just flirt with genre boundaries, it dismantles them entirely. The LA-born, New York-based artist has delivered a full-length that feels as politically resonant as it is rhythmically arresting.

Tempa, of course, is not just any label. It’s the spiritual home of early dubstep—a place where names like Skream, Benga, and Horsepower Productions once carved out the skeletal, bass-heavy outlines of a new sound. But where much of that early movement leaned into brooding minimalism and hyper-masculine energy, Introspekt’s approach feels like a seismic shift in tone. Moving The Center doesn’t just inhabit the canon—it challenges it.

This is an album that brings the listener face-to-face with the multiplicity of bass music’s roots and futures. Tracks like lead single “The Transmission” are a masterclass in sonic storytelling—throbbing low-end pressure intersects with spectral synths and anxious, broken-beat percussion. But more than just production finesse, there’s a deeper presence here: an assertion of Black, trans, and femme agency within a space that too often erases it.

There’s a clear lineage at play—garage, dubstep, Baltimore club, ballroom—but Introspekt doesn’t collapse them into nostalgia. Instead, she manipulates their histories like clay, molding them into forms that feel elastic, sensual, and confrontational all at once. Her music is both invitation and incantation: to dance, to remember, to reimagine.

The title Moving The Center couldn’t be more apt. It’s both a literal shift in sonic focus—centering softness, fluidity, and femme expression in a traditionally rigid, often male-coded soundscape—and a metaphorical one. It proposes a redistribution of who gets to define what bass music can be. It says: here is another center. Here is another axis to spin around.

And Tempa, for its part, is wise to follow that gravitational pull. With Introspekt, the label doesn’t just return—it evolves. It acknowledges that dubstep and its affiliated sounds never truly belonged to a singular narrative, and that the voices pushing them forward now are coming from the margins, recontextualizing the genre with urgency and intention.

There’s also a sense of physicality that’s hard to ignore. This is dance music built for sweat and release, but also for memory and protest. Introspekt isn’t simply inviting femmes to the front—she’s remapping the entire room. This is body music with a spirit, a theory, a politics.

Pre-Save the album here.