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STREAM: Peaking Lights - Lo Hi
One of my favorite surprises last year was the married duo Peaking Lights and their thoroughly dubbed-out 936. Now, the group is back and still tripping on this new one "Lo Hi" – a first slice of their boldly-named Lucifer LP. It would be wrong to say they continue refining the project's sound, because it's still so expansively murky with blurred fidelity and the cooing of their baby trailing through the background. Hear more June 19 on Mexican Summer.
DOWNLOAD: Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras, The Congos - Happy Song
The RVNG FRKWYS series puts out some of the most engaging experimental music and one-off collaborations around. This one is something else altogether, though. Sun Araw and M. Geddes Gengras brought their ultra-vibes down to St. Catherine, Jamaica to record with dub icons The Congos. A full album, ICON GIVE THANK, came out of the sessions, and here's a taste both spacey and earth with the far-out "Happy Song." Hear more April 10.
PREMIERE: Apparat - Candil De La Calle (Apparat Dub Mix)
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Long ago (aka two months ago), we declared 2012 the "year of dub." The spare genre, so gaseous and spacious, has a lot of elements that modern artists can build on to great effect. On this premiere of Apparat's dub mix to "Candil De La Calle" (from last year's The Devil's Walk) the tempo burns slowly and synths smear everywhere over a strong enclosed beat and trails of bass. Dub is loosely about creating a new world where the unfamiliar and forgotten is magnified, and Apparat flips it well.
DOWNLOAD: King Midas Sound - One Ting (Dabyre Rework)
King Midas Sound's 2009 album Waiting For You is one that I consumed without much expectation at the time. It has surprisingly lingered, though. Its intimacy and open space seemed to make it a no-brainer for a remix collection, and after two years we finally get one with names like Gang Gang Dance, Flying Lotus and Nite Jewel doing their own dubs of the original tracks. On this version of "One Ting," a rework from Dabyre that has been floating around as far back as 2008, it's all nitrous vocals, submarine bass, intergalactic synths and those breathy vocals that made the original feel like it was created right there next to you. Find this and more excursions on Without You, which is out next week on Hyperdub.
DOWNLOAD: Smith Westerns - End Of The Night (Peaking Lights Remix)
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While Smith Westerns have perfected a contemporary take on classic rock, Peaking Lights have flirted with legitimate transcendence on the recent album 936. What happens when you put them together? You see where this is going. "End Of The Night," a Clash-indebted muscle rocker, gets completely blown-out and turned into a circular dub maze. Screaming guitars wander around in the background like a radio was left on. Rumbling bass has completely taken over the room.
Smith Westerns - End of the Night (Peaking Lights Remix)
DOWNLOAD: Vetiver - Can't You Tell (Bing's Slim For Summer Dub)
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I know it's dull to bang on about the weather, but the Indian Summer we're currently enjoying in London is really something. It's shorts weather today and it will be all week, and just as there's nothing better than the sight of me in a pair of jorts, there's nothing more apt when you're sweating on the eve of October than a disorientating, semi-Balearic track that has a warmth that seems to fade even as you're listening to it. So step in this "Slim For Summer" dub version of Vetiver's "Can't You Tell," out as part of a limited edition 12-inch on October 3.
Vetiver - Can't You Tell (Bing's Slim For Summer Dub)
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DOWNLOAD: Grace Jones - Well Well Well (Dub)
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In the future, people won't believe that Grace Jones ever existed. Mostly, that will be because of the way she looks—the jut of her jaw, the logger's saw mohican, that photo of her where she looks cut from wood, the body honed to a degree somewhere beyond Olympian. It's all just too perfect, she looks like something a fantasist drew drunk. Her music's often as unreal as her appearance, and "Well Well Well (Dub)", taken from her new album Hurricane Dub, backs up that assertion; snare hits and ominous incantations tumbling into a well of echo. Unreal. I still can't believe she's on MySpace.
Grace Jones - Well Well Well (Dub)
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PREMIERE: The Drift - Horizon
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Pulling influence from jazz and dub, The Drift layers, adds and removes elements for an engaging result. “Horizon” conveys a sense of poignancy with a single, unrelenting bass note, guiding you through the San Francisco trio’s maze of instrumentals over an ambient core. The track is also a memorial to former member Jeff Jacobs, who passed away shortly before the band entered the studio to record its third album. Alternately haunting and cathartic, it is a moving tribute that honors Jacobs and remains true to the band's sound. Blue Hour is out October 4 on Temporary Residence, and catch the group on tour with Explosions In The Sky this November.
