Hyperdub » Passion of the Weiss

Mar
16

Sach O is all about listening to dystopian shit in 2011. I’ll hold back for my full review but you need Kode9 and the Spaceape’s upcoming Black Sun. Universally ignored by a Hip-Hop underground, their 2006 debut Memories of the Future may have been the decade’s best slice of Afrofuturist sci-fi since Deltron 3030 and… Continue reading »

Mar
10

Sach O: Optimum’s Hum & Buzz

Sach O listens to Hum & Buzz when he rolls. Ikonika’s Contact Love Want Have is still in rotation, a full length with definitive staying power whose shiny textures and laser synth lines go in perfect tandem with the spring air. A bridge between her earlier Dubstep-influenced experimentation and new all-post-everything sound, it’s the kind… Continue reading »

Oct
27

Sach O: Terror Danjah & Kode 9 take over Rinse

Sach O killed the Radio Star. He also has a Tumblr. Reading Jeff’s post on the wonderful (and nostalgiatastic!) Stretch and Bobbito reunion, I couldn’t help but think of my current radio listening in starkly opposite terms to the scarcity he describes. As a Rinse listener, I’m flooded with hour after hour of raw, uncut… Continue reading »

Oct
18

Sach O: Darkstar – North

Sach O’s got this or Roc Marci for album of the year. Hyperdub can do no wrong right now. Even amidst a landscape of forward thinking labels constantly reinventing the genres they’re operating in, Kode 9’s imprint stands out in its dedication to absolutely bleeding edge sounds. This year alone has seen a synth colored… Continue reading »

Sep
30

Gold, Jerry…Gold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL_lgdoiL7I It’s appropriate that “Gold” premiered on Stereogum, a site whose taste triangulates Pitchfork and Paste for the pasty skin set. That’s not a knock. They offer competent white collar and flannel rock with the best, but you won’t find the latest Deep Medi 12″ or anything Hyperdub-related save for Burial, the token gesture for… Continue reading »

Aug
26

LV feat Okmalumkoolkat – “Boomslang”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtg4nu5C-SI With Sach still smoking the strongest bubble hash on the continent, we’ve been slacking on bringing the George Jetson futuristic shit. Thus, via London’s LV and South Africa’s Kool Kat (no releation to MC Skat Kat) comes “Boomslang,” LV’s take on the Kwaito House sound of South Africa. It’s Hyperdub’s latest single, which doesn’t… Continue reading »

Jul
26

Terror Alert: Terror Danjah Gives Away Free LP

Though he’s practically unknown on American shores, Terror Danjah is known overseas as one of the pioneering Grime producers. Understandably, grime never translated well to Yankee ears. Other than “Fix Up Look Sharp,” Wiley and Kano, to me, most of it sounds like 3 a.m. drunk yelling at a fast food drive-through, staffed by employees… Continue reading »

Jun
12

Sach O: King Midas Sound – Live & Lost

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsChbAKahFY Expect more words about King Midas Sound in the near future, I nabbed a killer interview with Kevin Martin and Roger Robinson and am currently mulling what to do with it. In the meantime, I beseech you: see them live by whatever means necessary. Though the group’s album “Waiting for You” remains one of… Continue reading »

May
11

Ikonika – XLR8R Podcast

Sach already articulated why Ikonika turned in one of the year’s finest bass music records, so there’s little need to reiterate why Sara Abdel Hamid provides definitive proof that excessive video game play is not necessarily a bad thing. XLR8R asked the first lady of Hyperdub to lace them with a podcast and she drops… Continue reading »

Apr
30

Sach O: Komodo Dubs, LD and Katana-step

Photo by Jonathan Clark While Montreal’s club scene mostly remains the domain of muscle-shirted cretins and vapid-eyed skeezers* gorging themselves on bottle service to the rhythms of Euro-House and cheese-trance, the city has also spawned a wonderfully diverse selection of bass-music events over the past few years. Everyone has their niche from Boudah Slinky’s student-centered… Continue reading »