artist : Scuba
title : A Mutual Antipathy-HFCD002
date : 2008
label : Hotflush
genre : Bass
release date: 04.15.2008
street date : 04.07.2008
tracks : 11
bitrate : avg. 183kbps
size : 71,1 MB
source : CDDA
type : Album
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The very long awaited debut album from Hot Flush head bloke Paul
Rose aka Scuba is finally unleashed upon the world. Garnering much
widespread attention from the heads and tastemakers, Scuba's recent
move to Berlin has been cited as a large influence on the album and
his current direction within the dubstep movement, a scene which he
makes clear in the recent Woofah interview that he likes to maintain
a healthy distance from. After we have moved past the unfortunately
retrogressive IDM tweeness of opener 'systematic decline', the album
blossoms into 'hard boiled', the killer cut spotted on the album
sampler 12", a wide open slice of dubstep minimalism owing a very
large debt to the skeletal rhythmic convolutions of T++ and Berlin
style dub techno, but essentially retaining his melodic watermark.
'Tell her', the other cut from the sampler, harks back to the Scuba
productions of yesteryear with those smacking rock style snares and
bass drops, but thankfully balances these with a beautiful piano
motif to alleviate the pressure. 'Disorder' meanwhile sounds quite
unlike anything we've heard from this fella before, embarking on
a quasi industrial techno trip with rough cut metallic percussion
battered into stomping patterns. The industrial attitude prevails
through 'ruptured', and onto the lo-slung ambience of 'the upside'
and the rhythmic experimentation of ' twitch'. The album reaches
it's pinnacle with 'stolen', sounding more like an Autechre offcut
from 'Amber' than anything Berlin related. Mr Rose hasn't let any
dancefloor obligations hold him back with this album and has obviously
enjoyed the freedom this has allowed him to experiment and rethink the
Scuba sound, taking it to a more subdued, emotionally complex level.
The result is a deep and heady album that should broaden the horizons
of Dubstep, serving as a companion piece to Burial's after-hours
lights-down-low blueprint...
http://www.hotflushrecordings.com/
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01-Systematic Decline 04:42
02-Hard Boiled 05:39
03-Tell Her 04:07
04-Disorder 04:44
05-Ruptured 04:57
06-The Upside 04:12
07-Twitch 04:12
08-Stolen 03:31
09-Poppies 05:11
10-From Within 04:45
11-Suck 06:12
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52:12 min