Kode9 - Black Sun / 2 Far Gone / 12"

Hyperdub

12" |

£4.95

date in:

24/3/2009

catalogue number:

HYP009

genre: Dubstep

in stock

Listen to the Black Sun / 2 Far Gone tracklist:

side a

Black Sun Black Sun

side b

2 Far Gone 2 Far Gone

Description of Kode9 Black Sun / 2 Far Gone

Black Sun' started life as a ceremonially torched copy of The Sun newspaper and ended up as a weirdly euphoric, smeared synth workout that Kode9 has been mixing in his recent "funky" sets. Wavering and pitch-bent tones wind their way around a broken rhythm, while the bassline bubbles manically from beneath. '2 Far Gone', on the flip, similarly sends recent strains of UK house rhythm into modulating analogue drone. Sounds like 9's been drinking acid rain. Whatever this is, we're not sure where it came from and don't quite have words to describe it yet. Nor do we need them.

Artist:	Burial
Title:	Kindred EP
Label:	Hyperdub
Anyone with access to the internet probably already knows that a new EP by Burial appeared as a download release on the Hyperdub website a couple of days ago. A vinyl version is in production, but at the time of writing we are unable to confirm an exact release date while quality control checks are still being completed. Watch this space for more definite news, hopefully very soon. In the meantime, the pre-order hotlines are open. Featuring three new tracks pressed on high grade 180g vinyl for optimum sound reproduction, and running beyond 30 minutes, the 'Kindred EP' is an ambitious work that pushes further into the unique musical territory Burial occupies.

Artist:	Funkystepz
Title:	Trouble EP
Label:	Hyperdub
Airhorn!! After months of technical strife accompainied by much gnashing of teeth, the "missing" Funkystepz 12" is finally in the place and heading your way this week, available to the public's collective sweaty mitts from February 6th. All original pre-orders will be filled, and here's the info again to jog your memory ... Funkystepz return to Hyperdub, their debut 12" 'Fuller' / 'Hurricane Riddim' having detonated dancefloors earlier in 2011. It's rare to find an act who's name describes so functionally what their intention is and how they are going to get there, and their ruff but complex productions and DJ sets are incredible at raising energy and getting bodies moving in a way that so much modern dancefloor music just doesn't. These three tracks are straight up dancefloor destroyers, almost overloaded with energy. 'Trouble' is exactly that; with martial stomping kick drums, whistles, a tough, infectious melody line, and chords like a skidding car, this tune is built to bounce to. 'Dirty Dutch' has structure that breaks down and breaks up again, playing question and answer between a twilight zone style melody, a wiggly, scratched in test-tone, a grime-styled violin melody, and rapid-fire drums and claps. 'John Wayne' is so bow-legged that it almost falls over, made of loose, galloping drums with a backward drunken melody and skippy snares, a hilarious repetition of the words 'John Wayne', a rollin sub, and a spacey breakdown. It's really fun, strangely surreal and massively compelling on the dancefloor.

Artist:	Terror Danjah
Title:	SOS (Undeniable EP 3)
Label:	Hyperdub
Terror Danjah pre album release ep. On hyperdub

Artist:	Ill Blu
Title:	Bellion / Dragon Pop
Label:	Hyperdub
New EP on Numbers from the elusive North London funky production duo Ill Blu. 'Meltdown' ripples into earshot with fast paced congas rolling endlessly, flamming with intent, before the bomb like mid range tweaked bass line explodes and the kick drum pound really takes hold. Adding swelling strings and tremeloed melodics 'Meltdown' progresses into something a little more pensive, before the switch returns and that b-line drops in hard again. 'Overdose' wheels out one of those naggingly insistent Scratcha DVA-esque, nursery rhyme like lead lines - one of those that worms its way into everything you do for hours after you hear it. And it's the same combination of simple sound banks and borderline maddening melodies that dominate 'Chelt', its rasping open snare snapping out under the hard stabs and choppy flickers of percussive texture.

Artist:	Various Artists
Title:	5 : Five Years Of Hyperdub
Label:	Hyperdub
October 2009 heralds the release of '5', a 32 track double CD marking Hyperdub's five years of life as a record label. Honouring past, present and future in equal measure, '5' is comprised of one disc of prior highlights, and one of freshly-composed material contributed by Hyperdub artists and close friends. The first disc contains 16 brand new compositions from a heavyweight line-up which includes Burial, Cooly G, Darkstar, Flying Lotus, Ikonika, Joker & Ginz, King Midas Sound, Kode9 & The Spaceape, Mala, Martyn, and Zomby. The second disc features 16 key tunes from the Hyperdub back catalogue, many making their first ever appearance on CD and long since sold out of their original 12" vinyl versions. Also included is Kode9 & The Spaceape's previously-download-only 'Fukkaz', and their semi-legendary unreleased reading of 'Ghost Town', in which The Specials' anthemic lament is given a similar deconstructed bass treatment as that inflicted upon Prince's 'Sign O' The Times' to such dramatic and remarkable effect on the label's debut release in 2004. After half a decade of consistent artistic and commercial success for all Hyperdub's releases, there is little need in these pages to talk up the import of their influence upon the current electronic music landscape - we can leave that in the hands of the denizens of the international print & web press, who have been fulsome indeed in their aniticpation of '5' right from the moment the project was first announced.

Artist:	Ikonika
Title:	Millie / Direct
Label:	Hyperdub
Ikonika's second release on Hyperdub sees her unleashing a bittersweet, unhinged, dancefloor assault that combines her disjointed beats and a both comic and sinister laughing bassline, with breezy synth chords that owe as much to the current swell of post-bump beats than anything else coming out of London right now. And all this named after her cat, 'Millie'. On the flip, 'Direct' takes it easier, opening with an accordion-like synth before a cascade of bleeps desends, and the swollen sub bass rises. Totally lush. Watch for the sublime switch in the middle of the track, the soundtrack to winding down the roof of your space cruiser, and donning shades as the sun reflects off Saturn. Deeply psychedelic off-beats from the queen of Hyperdub.

Artist:	King Midas Sound
Title:	Cool Out EP [ inc. Dabrye & Flying Lotus remixes ]
Label:	Hyperdub
King Midas Sound is Kevin 'The Bug' Martin and the angelically-voiced Roger Robinson, who first came together on The Bug's 2003 Rephlex LP 'Pressure'. With Martin taking a more blissed out, but equally deranged approach from that of his new epic Bug album 'London Zoo', the King Midas Sound is 21st Century jilted lovers rock. First surfacing on Kode9's Sonar mix from the summer of 2007, and heavily in demand ever since then, 'Cool Out' is finally getting the release we've all been holding our breath and turning purple for. If that wasn't enough, this EP also features two previews from the forthcoming King Midas Sound album, in the form of remixes by two producers known for sending their off-beats into orbit. Graced and defined by Roger's sweet, sweet vocals, 'Cool Out' is a hymn to the ever persistent ghosts and mutations of Jamaican sound system culture. The remixes of 'Lost' and 'One Ting' on the flipside take that same spirit into hip hop peripheries. Dabyre's rendition of 'One Ting' laces his funk with unexpected and shrill shards of early Detroit techno, while Flylo captures the essence of 'Lost' with a suicidal Japanese monologue and dysfunctional bleeps and crunches. Another tale of the unexpected from Hyperdub and taster of the forthcoming KMS album due later in 2008.

Artist:	Quarta 330 / Cardopusher
Title:	Sabacco / Homeless (Quarta 330 remix)
Label:	Hyperdub
After the 8-bit cult classic success of his debut Hyperdub release, which surprised dancefloors around the world in late 2007 and continues to do so today, Tokyo's Quarta 330 returns with some fresh beats to crown the close of 2008. Both tracks were previewed in clipped form on the recent BBC Radio 1 Hyperdub Showcase. On 'Sabacco', Quarta takes one step outside of the video game console, expanding his palette, with his signature synths lacing scattered, highly-swung snares in a lush and melodic slice of broken techno. On the flip, Mr. 330 steps up to remix renegade Venezuelan bassman Cardopusher, with a refix of 'Homeless' that returns to the crunchy arcade vibes of 'Sunset Dub' and the '9 Samurai' remix' showcased on his previous release. A strong outing that adds bonus points to his earlier Hyperdub high score.

Artist:	Kode 9 Vs LD-Bad
Title:	Bad / 2 Bad
Label:	Hyperdub
Switching up the styles again, this Hyperdub release features two off-beat, house flavoured dubs driven along by crushed synth piano hooks. The tag team between Kode9 and LD (dub-cutter extraordinaire from the legendary Transition studios in South London) brings percussion and cut-up, filtered female vocals back into the mix. The A-side 'Bad' has been circulating on dubplate since the beginning of 2008 and has been a dancefloor friendly favourite from Kode9's DJ sets. The flip '2Bad' sounds like 'Bad's' little sister, a slower slice of broken house laced with synthetic soul, and that little extra underneath the pavement that you can always expect from Hyperdud.

Artist:	Ossie
Title:	Set The Tone EP
Label:	Hyperdub
Ossie is a 22 year old producer from East London, who's debut EP 'Tarantula' came out earlier this year on the Lightworks label. His follow-up for Hyperdub is a three tracker of percussive house and beats, which is contemporary while giving a nod to the pioneers of electronic soul and fusion of the 70s and 80s. The EP starts with 'Set The Tone'. It's been a feature of Kode9's sets for about six months now, and doesn't fail to get bodies moving. The track opens with a dazzling lattice of latin percussion over a driving, off beat kick drum, before the song breaks into an infectious vocoder accompanied by lush Rhodes chords. It's one of those songs that manages to mix the worlds of dance music abstraction and catchy song writing without falling into obvious tropes. 'The Power Of Love' mixes similar elements in a completely different way, zoning into a more Masters At Work vibe. Here a short vocoder repeat and swelling synths roll out over a big bassline and a swung garagish drum pattern, but it's the depth of production that really builds the intensity here, as unexpected elements such as huge orchestral strings and spooked synth lines are woven in and out. Finally, on a completely different tip, is 'Moves', slower but still perhaps even more danceable. If it wasn't for its rasping, grimey bassline, and some classic house strings and xylophone towards the end , it could be mistaken for a long lost Sa-Ra dub or the instrumental for an R&B classic.

Artist:	King Midas Sound
Title:	Goodbye Girl
Label:	Hyperdub
This new single features two of the most upfront tracks from King Midas Sound's forthcoming album project 'Without You', featuring re-voiced and re-versioned mutations of their debut album 'Waiting For You'. Side A is a mix of 'Goodbye Girl' by Kuedo aka former Vex'd producer Jamie Teasdale, who drags the original's domestic melodrama through a fatigued waltz of droning synths and stumbling drums. Side AA carries a radical new take on 'Earth A Kill Ya' by Mala from Digital Mystikz. He smothers Kiki's voice and dubs out Roger's lyrics to their most dread components, leaving strands of the original song lost at sea in sub bass and drowning in toxic chords and dusty reverbed drum blasts.

Artist:	King Midas Sound
Title:	Dub Heavy - Hearts & Ghosts
Label:	Hyperdub
As a seductive taster and spectral glimpse of the forthcoming King Midas Sound full length, 'Dub Heavy - Hearts And Ghosts' is an EP of three of that album's tracks dubbed into new alien versions. King Midas Sound is the duo of Kevin Martin, known for his groundbreaking work over the last decade as The Bug, teamed with Roger Robinson, reputed writer and spoken word performer. The pair first worked together in 2003 on The Bug's 'Pressure' album, but within these King Midas grooves, the visceral drive characteristic of The Bug's fevered sound is replaced by deeper core energies, and graced with Robinson's gentle soul lilt, the combination is blissfully, crushingly powerful. On these tunes, song structure and vocal are intoxicated with unsettling fx and consumed with reverb, pressing the music into haunting and unfamiliar territory. 'I Dub' marries booming bass and gaseous echo to grime hand-claps and a tense chilling melody. Centrepiece 'Ting Dub' fuses ominous distant sirens, shifting vocal streams, decelerated hip hop boom bap and a geologic subsonic rumble into a wraith-like miasma, while on 'Too Long Dub', the sinister chiming pendulum motif and decaying vocals dissolve into a delirious haze of toxic audio reflections. Burning like an endless fuse, this special release will be available only for a limited period, pressed on high grade 180g heavy guage vinyl, and is also Hyperdub's first ever individually artworked 12", housed in a photo jacket with gold-embossed detail.

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