Scuba - Negative/Speak - [Nakedlunch] Out Now!
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 8:28 am
Scuba - Negative/Speak - [Nakedlunch] 004
http://rootedrecords.co.uk/catalog/prod ... ts_id=2055
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=230244
http://www.catapult.co.uk/products/Vinyl/Dubstep/Speak
http://www.chemical-records.co.uk/sc/se ... Track=NL04
http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/view/58888
http://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/asp/dubs ... BackLink=n
Boomkat review
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"Career defining tracks from Hotflush head and techno/dubstep physicist Scuba. This is easily one of the best records we've heard from the current Berlin resident, preceding a rumoured mix CD for a very special German imprint, his Sub:stance event, and off the back of a successful 18 months bridging the gap between UK-based steppers rhythms and Berlin's dub-techno structures. 'Negative' is the result of some focussed research, a blend of halfstep-swung snares and powerfully driven but subtly clean subbass with expertly manipulated dub chords carefully eschewing the formulaic pitfalls of operators we won't care to mention. However, the solid-gold is saved for the flipside on 'Speak', finding a glowing sweetspot at the centre of Basic Channel indebted dub-techno, Artwork-styled 2-step rhythm alchemy and the sort of lonely post-Garage-soul he shares with Burial or Peverelist. A sound that's been informed by time well spent in clubs studying the physical impact of tracks, hence the attention to detail and resultant tension of flexible bounce with a heavy heads-down effect that many attempt to nail, but fail to execute. It's a big release for sure, and comes with our highest recommendation to connoisseurs of the dub-tech sound. KILLER!!!!"
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You haven't worked in weeks. You're unshaven and unkempt, your fridge
is as bare as the dying light of a Sunday afternoon spent alone is
bleak. Your rent is in arrears, and you dread the thought of more
bills arriving through the door tomorrow. You spend more money on
whiskey and weed than you spend on food, and have recently taken to
shoplifting cheese from the supermarket. Barefoot, in your underwear
still, you walk over to your record player, still faithfully spinning
around and around and around since God knows what time this morning
when the last people left... You reach for the record you walked into
town to buy, pull it from it's sleeve, still fresh despite a gathering
storm of your greasy fingerprints clouding it like uncertainty clouds
your future. For five and a half minutes you stand listening, eyes
closed, and your troubles fall away. You flip the record over and, for
a further five and a half minutes of pure joy, you hear that which few
others ever will. THE FUTURE IS NAKED
Dj support from : Martyn,Scuba,2562,TRG,Breakage,Brendon
Muller,Floating Points,Mary Ann Hobbs,Instra:mental.
Audio here ---> http://www.myspace.com/thenakedspace
http://rootedrecords.co.uk/catalog/prod ... ts_id=2055
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=230244
http://www.catapult.co.uk/products/Vinyl/Dubstep/Speak
http://www.chemical-records.co.uk/sc/se ... Track=NL04
http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/view/58888
http://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/asp/dubs ... BackLink=n
Boomkat review
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"Career defining tracks from Hotflush head and techno/dubstep physicist Scuba. This is easily one of the best records we've heard from the current Berlin resident, preceding a rumoured mix CD for a very special German imprint, his Sub:stance event, and off the back of a successful 18 months bridging the gap between UK-based steppers rhythms and Berlin's dub-techno structures. 'Negative' is the result of some focussed research, a blend of halfstep-swung snares and powerfully driven but subtly clean subbass with expertly manipulated dub chords carefully eschewing the formulaic pitfalls of operators we won't care to mention. However, the solid-gold is saved for the flipside on 'Speak', finding a glowing sweetspot at the centre of Basic Channel indebted dub-techno, Artwork-styled 2-step rhythm alchemy and the sort of lonely post-Garage-soul he shares with Burial or Peverelist. A sound that's been informed by time well spent in clubs studying the physical impact of tracks, hence the attention to detail and resultant tension of flexible bounce with a heavy heads-down effect that many attempt to nail, but fail to execute. It's a big release for sure, and comes with our highest recommendation to connoisseurs of the dub-tech sound. KILLER!!!!"
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You haven't worked in weeks. You're unshaven and unkempt, your fridge
is as bare as the dying light of a Sunday afternoon spent alone is
bleak. Your rent is in arrears, and you dread the thought of more
bills arriving through the door tomorrow. You spend more money on
whiskey and weed than you spend on food, and have recently taken to
shoplifting cheese from the supermarket. Barefoot, in your underwear
still, you walk over to your record player, still faithfully spinning
around and around and around since God knows what time this morning
when the last people left... You reach for the record you walked into
town to buy, pull it from it's sleeve, still fresh despite a gathering
storm of your greasy fingerprints clouding it like uncertainty clouds
your future. For five and a half minutes you stand listening, eyes
closed, and your troubles fall away. You flip the record over and, for
a further five and a half minutes of pure joy, you hear that which few
others ever will. THE FUTURE IS NAKED
Dj support from : Martyn,Scuba,2562,TRG,Breakage,Brendon
Muller,Floating Points,Mary Ann Hobbs,Instra:mental.
Audio here ---> http://www.myspace.com/thenakedspace
