DESCRIPTION:
Delicate layers of percussion by Tapa set the pace and the tone on "Single Coil," as it builds slowly into a kind of driving, electro-organic jam session one could imagine someone like Goth Trad conducting. Every element hits in dual dimensions, bathed in sweeping effects that lean and mesh into one another. All this over a proper dub-steppers backbeat, coiled up within Dubsworth's elastic bass line (surprisingly, not synthesized, but live bass guitar). A daring new statement of what the label name Dubs Alive signifies, "Single Coil"-- and the full album "By the Fire" -- marks an acceleration and intensification in focus from the label originators (Dubsworth & Bakir) that started it all. These are fourth-world dubplates that reward multiple listens both on head-nodding headphone commutes, and as powerful breakdowns on the dance floor. And as eclectic and variegated as they are, every track affirms where and why the dubs remain alive within them all.