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Low End Activist: Airdrop (digital, Peak Oil, April 2024)

I have a feeling that ‘deconstructed’ is one of my more overused words in this blog. But I’m afraid it has to get another outing today. I guess you could describe this as dub rave. There are lots of fragments of good old hardcore in here, but they’re all chopped up and swathed in reverb. […]

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Hoavi: Invariant (digital, Peak Oil, October 2021)

My first thought when I heard this is that it combines elements and atmospherics familiar from dub, and in particular from dub techno (the first track even has an echoey vocal sample saying “dub” in case you needed a clue) with breakbeats more familiar from jungle (albeit the more laidback end). Is dub jungle a […]