Dub Rider / Filth In The Community

Dub Rider / Filth In The Community

Radical Majik [Klang Elektronik]

15 August, 2007 | 4.06PM

• Written by: Richard Brophy
• Filed under: Music Recommendations: klang elektronik, radical majik

This release makes you wonder what happens at A&R meetings. 

Klang Elektronik is a long-established German techno label founded by revered Frankfurt DJ Ata and is part of the Ongaku stable that includes Playhouse. 

Klang doesn’t usually slip up, so why they signed ‘Filth In The Community’ by Rad Rice and Steve Boardman is anyone’s guess.

Maybe they were tired or hungover, or they just wanted to release a noisy electro house track that would piss people off.

Whatever the explanation, the screeching riffs and lame groove of ‘Filth’ falls way below the label’s usual standards.

It’s a pity that it wasn’t a one-sided venture, because Rice and Boardman’s other offering represents the other end of the spectrum, an idiosyncratic, unique-sounding piece of music.

Employing live, swinging drums that could have originated at a street corner calypso jam, the duo daub the rhythms in insistent acid riffs and melancholic chord progressions.

The end result is trippy and summery, but also a little bit sad and melancholic, a product of too many Mojitos or just because they heard ‘Filth In The Community’ on playback too many times? We’ll probably never find out. 

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