Disrupt – Dub Matrix With Stereo Sound (Jahtari)
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Out Now
Jahtari main man and digital laptop reggae originator, Jan
Gleichmar, releases a new album.
This album is one step away from genius. The label famous for producing dub and reggae
on laptops and digital machines forge ahead with their very unique take on the
genre and almost create a new one on the journey.
Dub Matrix is fascinating.
Essentially created from the sounds of a Nintendo Gameboy, the album
somehow manages to provide cracking bass rhythms and superb dubs to leave
something that would have left Kraftwerk werking themselves up into a lather
when they released Pocket Calculator. This
isn’t s novelty album, it’s deadly serious – described as ‘extra-terrestrial
8-bit dub’ – it has some very serious beats and was years in the making
fine-tuning the console-based construction using Jan’s favoured Gamebwoy.
You might recognise Zelda along the way too. Bits From The Bong has a reggae stomp beat
with added vocal sound bytes. If you’re
dubious, forget the origins of the sounds and think of it as futuristic dub-pop-reggae
if you will, a new sound with the tried and tested formula. Break Out gives us a slowed down style before
Pueblo Riddim lifts the pace again.
There’s even time for a trip-hop beat on The Future Is Ours, a title
which probably sums up the album. Ending
with Toploader, the album leaves you aghast and asking – what was that?! Its nine tracks pass in little over sixteen
minutes. A shame in one respect but a
bonus that you still have time to play again.
It’s all Old Skool microchips and real voltage being fed through
music gear that disrupt is now building himself. Dub and reggae taking a step back whilst taking
another one forward.
You can listen to Dub Matrix With Stereo Sound here.
9/10
Links
The Jahtari website is here.
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