Once upon a dumpling, on a golden afternoon, I found myself at a Cantonese banquet of steam and sunshine. Dr. K, the mysterious maestro of illusions, whispered, “Marcel, today you shall meet a sorcerer of cards.”

Enter Chris Mayhew. His eyes twinkled like lantern light, his hands decorated with some very bright fancy nail-polish. Between baskets of dumplings and towers of pork buns, he reached for his deck of cards and showed us a trick that he'd been working on:

He placed a card on the table. Ordinary, like rice. He rested his palm over it, rubbing slow circles as if summoning ancient spirits. And then—he lifted his hand. The card was gone. Vanished. Dissolved into thin air, leaving only the echo of astonishment.

The trick, he called “Rubba-Dub Dubstep” was based on a classic move called the “Rubba-dub vanish”. But in that instant, I heard something else: a rhythm, a wobble, a thunderous drop. A song waiting to be born.

Back in my monkey studio, I took that moment of disappearance and spun it into sound. The rub became the build up before the bass. The vanish became the wobble that shakes your bones. I forged a track where sleight of hand and dubstep collide.

Thus, the legend of “Rubba-Dub Dubstep” was recorded—not in ink, but in beats, basslines, and the memory of one vanished card over dim sum.

And now, dear listener, the spell is yours to hear:
👉 Rubba-Dub Dubstep – Chris Mayhew x Marcel Du Chimp

—Marcel Du Chimp 🐒✨🎛️