To offer a strained analogy, consider Kode9 the Peanut Butter Wolf, to Burial’s Madlib. The mastermind behind Dub Step dons, Hyper Dub, the Scottish-born producer named Steve Goodman receives less acclaim than his Mercury Prize-nominated meal ticket, but remains one of the most vital players in the drum and bass and dub-descended, sub-genre centered in London.
Like Burial, Kode 9′s music operates in a delirious haze, trapped between exotic Coleridge dreams and neurotic Kafka nightmares. The sort of stuff that only makes sense between midnight and four, alone, glancing at a maze of green and pink city lights, on Laudanum–it’s hard to get good Laudanum these days. Metropolis music, born from the claustrophobic strain of stacks and stacks of people and property.
New single, “Black Sun” sounds like its name would intimate: dying star-synths, drums that pop like flare guns, jungle rhythms jiving to a baleful beat. He’s playing the Echo on April 10, opening for Flying Lotus. It’s enough to make you wonder if mushrooms are kosher for Pesach–if you’re into that sort of thing, or are just Jewish for the jokes.
Boomkat: Kode9-”Black Sun/2 Far Gone]
Download:
MP3: Kode9-”Black Sun”
MP3: Kode9-”Magnetic City”
4 comments
Joseph says:
April 1, 2009 at 12:43 am (UTC -7)
Kode9 and Flying Lotus sounds like a great pairing. On the last Flying Lotus set I heard he was showing significant dubstep influence with the wobble-basslines and all that. I’d say him playing with forreal dubstep artists should hopefully further him along that path. Are you gonna be reviewing the show?
Passion of the Weiss says:
April 1, 2009 at 9:01 am (UTC -7)
I’m fairly sure I’ll interview Fly Lo or Kode9 for a preview piece. Not 100 percent sure if I’ll review it though.
Curt says:
April 1, 2009 at 12:26 pm (UTC -7)
“Kode9 the Peanut Butter Wolf, to Burial’s Madlib”, well said.
Passion of the Weiss » Blog Archive » LA Times: Cracking the Kode: Kode9 on the future of dubstep, Hyperdub, Flying Lotus and new Burial says:
April 10, 2009 at 2:04 am (UTC -7)
[...] already discussed Kode9, so I’ll spare the windy intro. An interview with the Hyperdub baron is up at Pop and Hiss. A [...]