Japanese electronic dub. Doesn’t that just grab you right there and make you go whoa hold on a second I need to hear that. Oh it doesn’t for you. That’s too bad I suppose. Well it did for me anyway, so I guess we’re at loggerheads then. You see I just love dub music, and was absolutely tickled by the idea of what a Japanese glitch artist was gonna do with it. Like the distance of Japanese culture from dub seems insurmountable. Oh it doesn’t to you? Well maybe just to me then. But it still seems like it is a weird thing to take on. Agreed?
And well, while it doesn’t live up to the coolness that I had thought it might have, it’s still pretty neat. Much more minimal and glitch than I had expected. Like it’s very nearly pure ambient, with a bit of deep dub baselines. And a bit of jazz sensibility in there too. Which is a weird, the percussion is this almost jazz dub thing. And then a points there are these like electronic steel drums. It’s all very messed up. And it’s just like a big pile of mud pie, with all sorts of crap thrown in. some of the dub style echo in weird places and everything. And that is not mud pie ion a bad way like pie made of mud, but as in the Mississippi mud pie that you can get at Loblaw’s, you know it has cream and nuts and a sludgy chocolate base. Oh, you have never had it? It is very delicious I tell you. Really, just go out and try it believe me you won’t be disappointed. It is one of the best frozen pies I have ever eaten. In fact I might go and buy one just now, mmmmm. Or maybe just a really nice sugar pie, those are delicious as well. Hmmm no I don’t know what kind of pie to buy, maybe even mousse.
Well but anyway that kind of mud pie, delicious but very much a mix of all sorts of things and 100% delicious. In fact the use of dub as a description seems very dubious here, but I suppose there is a bit of it, so I cant really say it’s not dub, but it seems much closer to a sort of loungey jazz. Very mellow and not necessarily so groovy. More just laidback electronic blips. Not so much a deep rich bass sound with lots of sort of echoey weird bits. Yeah I’d say jazzy.
And that isn’t a bad thing, jazzy is very good. Just not really what I had expected. More upright jazz bass, than deep dirty dub bass, am I making any sense. And the track an Interval even has this sort of mechanized industrial thump in it. Very Hodge podgy. Good though, don’t worry good. I think you’ll like it.
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