The Bug – Blue Versions (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 44:25 minutes | 478 MB | Genre: Experimental Electronic, Dub
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperdub
‘Blue Versions’ contains 11 instrumentals/dubs extracted from last year’s The Bug ft Dis Fig ‘In Blue’ album on Hyperdub. Sillicon yard, destroyed dancehall rhythms. Filtered / fuzzed / f-cked science friction versions. Heavy on emotion and even heavier on sheer sub weight. This is haunted ragga made for paranoid androids. A tunnel sound for dread heads.
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The Bug – In Blue (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:05 minutes | 508 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperdub
The Bug aka Kevin Richard Martin, and Berlin based, American producer/vocalist, Dis Fig aka Felicia Chen, refer to their style on the album In Blue as ’Tunnel Sound’. A foggy, melancholic meltdown of narco-dancehall, zoned soul and dread drenched, electronic dub.
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The Bug – Absent Riddim (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:20:32 minutes | 912 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pressure
17 versions of the same beat + an extremely eclectic crew of vocalists as the new Bug album = commercial industry suicide…17 versions of the same beat, mutated, modified and sometimes mutilated to suit each guest i invited, to jump this heavyweight rhythm. So if you arent feelin the beat, you may as well jump off from the get go.. And trust, this album is an absolute tribute to the dancehall one riddim albums that endlessly emerge from Jamaica, and in fact hooked me since the mid 90’s, as a black wax addict. And this collection purposely contains sixteen different vocalists/Mcs from different musical worlds to see just how extreme the contrasts could be. I always love hearin’ how incredible Jamaican mcs individually approach the same riddim completely differently, and how that would keep the beat fresh and maximise the element of surprise…Always seemed a great way of reinventing a rhythm and satisfying my own musical greed and insatiable appetite for next level vocals.
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The Bug – Absent Riddim (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:20:32 minutes | 912 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pressure
17 versions of the same beat + an extremely eclectic crew of vocalists as the new Bug album = commercial industry suicide…17 versions of the same beat, mutated, modified and sometimes mutilated to suit each guest i invited, to jump this heavyweight rhythm. So if you arent feelin the beat, you may as well jump off from the get go.. And trust, this album is an absolute tribute to the dancehall one riddim albums that endlessly emerge from Jamaica, and in fact hooked me since the mid 90’s, as a black wax addict. And this collection purposely contains sixteen different vocalists/Mcs from different musical worlds to see just how extreme the contrasts could be. I always love hearin’ how incredible Jamaican mcs individually approach the same riddim completely differently, and how that would keep the beat fresh and maximise the element of surprise…Always seemed a great way of reinventing a rhythm and satisfying my own musical greed and insatiable appetite for next level vocals.
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