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KODE9
+ the SPACEAPE Distribution:
Cargo Records |
After the
widely acclaimed Burial debut album, Hyperdub throw out another tangential
long player, a mutant satellite to the grime/dubstep scenes, this time from
label boss Kode9 and resident vocalist Spaceape. Memories of the Future features
14 dread filled flash-backs and flash-forwards from a world trembling in an
echology of fear. The future has collapsed in on the present and spaceship
earth is on route to nowhere. The album brings together the long sought after
Hyperdub debut single 'Sine of the Dub' from early 2004 with other minor classics
such as 'Kingstown', recent singles 'Backward' and '9 Samurai' and 10 new
tracks of uneasy, sometimes queasy listening. Time scrambling dubtronic poet,
Spaceape circulates around the lyrical black hole he calls home with tales
of cultural addiction, urban paralysis, bioterror, smoldering flesh and psycho-affective
meltdown. Yet they manage to conjure up a strange joy in these hallucinations
of dystopia which infect the real present. ‘Glass’ eases you into
a false sense of insecurity, a synthetic sea shanty for a spaceship adrift.
‘Victims’ descends down through the dub chamber and resurfaces
towards the 'dread pop' of ‘Curious’(featuring debut appearance
from Ms.Haptic), and the ‘dread hop’ of ‘Backward’
and ‘Portal’. Spaceape’s dark dictations and demented refrains
form the consistent thread through 9’s loping rhythms, deranged melodies
and walls of muffled, driving sub-bass. Alongside the singularly infamous
'Sine' are more doses of uniquely sticky, claustrophobic and katatonic bass
poetry of 'Nine' and 'Correction'. The album closes with the cold shiver of
‘Lime’ and astro-dancehall of ‘Quantum’. But as Spaceape
reminds us in ‘Glass’ – “It’s the beginning,
not the end, that we have to reach last.”
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