![]() Was that a bee? A white pine branch? A set of fluffly clouds? Right as your mind catches on some known object it’s already been washed away and replaced by another. The colorful psychedelic sloshes keep hinting at images but we never get to know exactly what they are. The visuals on display above, by Morgan Beringer, inspire that same inquisitive spirit. Hearing the same thing over-and-over again, especially if it’s imperceptibly evolving either by a shift in composition or the slight tweak of a filter knob, gives me the space to unpack and understand exactly what about it is motivating my body to move. I’m not a ‘live in the moment’ kind of person but I want to be and, as a result, tend to get attached to whatever helps me get over my instinctual aversion to now. When I’m locked into the pocket of an agreeable groove the present moment enlogates, freeing me to appreciate it. ![]() To some, dub techno‘s hallmark layering of super-straight-forward-and-stripped-down 1-to-2-bar loops can be relentlessly irritating and abrasive but, to me, that kind of ultra-repetition is just right. ![]() ![]() My first introduction to any of its many incarnations was via a Tiefschwarz DJ set at the 2007 WMC I was there specifically to hear (and dance to) their remix of Phonique’s `The Red Dress` and the ‘Holden Tool’ followed it. The tune in the attached is a cover (by Vessels) for a remix (by James Holden) of the rambling ambient techno classic, `The Sky Was Pink` by Nathan Fake.
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