SUB BASICS Vinyl & CDs

Review: Fuss and fluff are thrown by the wayside on ‘More Water’, hearing Sub Basics (Tom Wood) and Witch Trials (formerly of the label MYRYRS) join forces for a new collaboration on Temple Of Sound. Sleek, unfussy dub techno, and yet still unafraid of wetness past the knees, the likes of ’November’, ’Technique’ and ‘Liquify’ are seriously well simmered slammers, their projectile chords and wide multichannel drums lending themselves a firmer than firm sectional density, with a mean hardness rivalling that of chromium. Only the B side dares step into ricketier territory, with ‘4AM’ and ‘Morning Meltdown’ increasingly conveying that hanging-by-a-thread feeling all to familiar to the early hours floor fiends among us.