Rude Audio, South London dub- chug specialists, are back with a seven track EP to brighten and enliven late October. Opening track MGB1 bounces in, mind bending space disco destined for dance floor action. North Star Dub is in familiar Rude Audio territory, Sabres style dubbiness, fat bass, chuggy drums and echoing rim shots. Swamp Ting goes further and deeper, downtempo bass and groove with lots going on on top- strings and synths and percussion ricocheting around. No Sleep is shorter, synth judders and whooshes, snatches of chopped up voices, whispers and echoes. Milo On A Hill is even more discombobulated, dubbed out and weirded out, picking up pace and the groove in its second half, the synths and drums sounding like the theme to a 90s sci fi you never watched at the time but binged in the small hours recently.
Nobix is punctuated by a voice declaring, 'I had a dream last night... when I woke up I remembered it', and then, 'it's gone'.
Much of this EP sounds like that vocal suggests- memories of a night out, thumping bass and drums, speakers rattling, a haze of people talking and dancing, glasses chinking, noises from the street bleeding in when the door opens, synths and mirror balls. The EP finishes with a Rich Lane remix of Milo On A Hill, slowed down and with some killer dub bounce and melodica. Strange Phenomena, highly recommended. Get it at Bandcamp.
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