Beat Pharmacy: Beach Dub b/w Bowling Dub
| South African born, New York living Brendon Moeller, man of a thousand guises – including Beat Pharmacy, Echologist and Mono Blanco – is a prolific producer known especially for his hard yet dubwise brand of techno. Founder of the prolific Steadfast label, Moeller has releases on a number of excellent imprints including Echocord and Soul People. For ZamZam, Beat Pharmacy indulged his deep love of heady dubwise, crafting two totally unique and uncompromisingly experimental tracks that provide a window into a singular creative soul.Moeller says, “Beach Dub and Bowling Dub were both recorded in early 2014 in my own studio… At the time I was coming down from 5 years of nonstop techno production and touring, and was feeling a huge urge to record some spaced out dub – so I did. Both tracks were recorded using hardware and software combined.”
Beach Dub is firmly rooted in the history of dub techno in which Moeller has been such a key figure for many years. Unlike most dub techno, however, it leads with the bass and atmosphere, lush texture and melody washing in at steady intervals, waves and tides that carry the riddim rather than the other way around. Bowling Dub creates a cavernous sound world rich in reverb and sparkling detail that reaches into hip hop/electro-dub territory with huge bass, skittering drums and pinballing percussion pointing the way to an as-yet-unnamed genre of dubwise whose time is ripe. Out end of June, 2015. Limited to a one-time pressing of 600 copies. Vinyl only, no digital. Design & two-color screen print by Polygon Press. |