Clarendon / The Shroud

Clarendon / The Shroud

Breakage [Digital Soundboy Recordin...

19 November, 2007 | 5.20PM

• Written by: The Last Real DJ Alive
• Filed under: Music Recommendations: breakage, digital soundboy

The Digital Soundboy Recording Co. label shows its versatility with an interesting drum & bass / breaks release this month in the form of ‘Clarendon / The Shroud’.

The former track – D&B in genre – is a hypnotic, dubby song that’s low on glossy frills but high on vibe.

This is obviously heavily inspired by dub and moreover dub step.

If you listen to it on your crappy kitchen speakers you’ll miss the point utterly.

Instead, this belongs inside an iron-lunged beast of a speaker stack that rolls out low frequencies like a radio transmitter on the blink.

Watch out for a ragga sample taken from an extremely old, rare drum & bass EP that slips our memory – but the one that the original ‘Dub Plate’ was on that had really crap design.

Onto the breaks track – ‘The Shroud’ picks up perfectly where ‘Clarendon’ left off but at 85 BPM.

This really is deep stuff – not throwaway like much of the D&B and breaks knocking around these days.

It’s almost hard to believe how delicate and select some of the sounds and arrangements are here.

All we can say is that it fucking rocks, and if you’re into lasting underground music then you’re in the right place.

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