And This... #4: Leftside Wobble

And This...
#4
LEFTSIDE WOBBLE

Prolific as a DJ, producer, remixer and promoter for years now - and yet I don't know his real name - Leftside Wobble is one of the most consistently on-point people in music at the moment. While I've highlighted only one of this tunes on this page (his beautiful dub of Richard Earnshaw's 'Cry Me A River'), I strongly suggest you check out his soundcloud page, his mixcloud page and his blog, follow him on twitter and just basically soak up anything he has put his hand to.

Get in there and get your wobble on.

Review: Dub Asylum 'Stereo Freeze'

DUB ASYLUM
Stereo Freeze
[Loopy Fruit Recordings]

Dub Asylum is the nom de produceur for Peter McLennan (of noted '90s NZ noisesters Hallelujah Picassos). Stereo Freeze gathers six tracks, old and new, which were recently threatened with permanent deletion thanks to a manky old hard drive. Freed of their former confines, they each stack up very nicely against Dub Asylum's past work. Melodica features heavily on opener Jumping Jack Skank (amid spacious echoes and a bouncing reggae beat) and on the dark, heavily percussive Get It Together (sounding like the theme music for a Jamaican version of James Bond); and the instrumental EP features appearances from Chip Matthews (Opensouls, Anika Moa) and Olly Harris (WBC/Kolab). McLennan belies his Picassos roots with plenty of genres peeking out from between the sweet reggae grooves - Skatta lays down slow-motion Afrobeat grooves for a horn-heavy skank to drape itself over - but dub really is the glue holding this excellent release together.

4 stars from 5
David Carroll