Imagine the opposite of a snake shedding its skin: a body slithering among the debris of 21st-century music; a porous, viscid body, its skin an adhesive, lodging onto itself bits and pieces along the way. Some are scraps, rusted, discarded parts. Some are the jewels of crowns, unglued and fallen from grace, now re-attached on this makeshift contraption. Where does a body end? Does it end where these prostheses begin?
Jay Glass Dubs’ Soma (“body” in Greek) is a palimpsest. Look closely and you can find all sorts of DNA microarrays on the body’s skin – Bristol voices, Detroit electro hums, the amen break, the all-encompassing dub haze – but, as with all palimpsests, they are simultaneously one and a multitude. The body lives, its prostheses live.
The body moves.
Composed, produced, recorded and performed by Jay Glass Dubs
Mixed by Jay Glass Dubs
All music and words by Jay Glass Dubs
except
A3 lyrics and additional music by Jasmine Butt
A4 lyrics and additional music by Maria Spivak
B3 lyrics and additional music by Danai Nielsen
Mastered by Helmut Erler at Dubplates & Mastering
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A real slow-burner. Darkxcoreambient rumbles and drumrollls from underneath many blankets and from the distance echoeing some kind of rhythmelody in a reverb soaked pit of mysterious and frightening dub research. From rather tame squalls of droning atmospherics to darkened cyber industrial clanky territories and beyond this
vocals that seem to appear to bee melting and riddims that rock back and forth like aabandoned ghost ship
Fascinating collection brutal stuff ʸᵒᵘ ᵒⁿˡʸ ˡⁱᵛᵉ ∞ⁿᶜᵉ
The French producer's debut makes an ideal chillout soundtrack, its synth jams swirling with Balearic textures and hypnotic trip-hop beats. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 21, 2024