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Artist:	KODE9 & THE SPACEAPE
Title:	Memories Of The Future
Label:	HYPERDUB (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	HYP 001CD

After the widely acclaimed Burial debut album, Hyperdub throw out another tangential long player, a mutant-satellite to the grime/dubstep scenes, this time from label boss Kode9 and resident vocalist Spaceape. Memories Of The Future features 14 dread-filled flash-backs and flash-forwards from a world trembling in an echology of fear. The future has collapsed in on the present and spaceship earth is on route to nowhere. The album brings together the long sought after Hyperdub debut single "Sine of the Dub" from early 2004 with other minor classics such as "Kingstown," recent singles "Backward" and "9 Samurai" as well as 10 new tracks of uneasy, sometimes queasy listening. Time-scrambling dubtronic poet Spaceape circulates around the lyrical black hole he calls home with tales of cultural addiction, urban paralysis, bioterror, smoldering flesh and psycho-affective meltdown. Yet they both manage to conjure up a strange joy in these hallucinations of dystopia which infect the real present. "Glass" eases you into a false sense of insecurity, a synthetic sea shanty for a spaceship adrift. "Victims" descends down through the dub chamber and resurfaces towards the "dread pop" of "Curious" (featuring debut appearance from Ms. Haptic), and the "dread hop" of "Backward" and "Portal." Spaceape's dark dictations and demented refrains form the consistent thread through 9's loping rhythms, deranged melodies and walls of muffled, driving sub-bass. Alongside the singularly infamous "Sine" are more doses of uniquely sticky, claustrophobic and katatonic bass poetry of "Nine" and "Correction." The album closes with the cold shiver of "Lime" and the astro-dancehall of "Quantum." But as Spaceape reminds us in "Glass," "It's the beginning, not the end, that we have to reach last."

Artist:	KODE9 & THE SPACEAPE
Title:	Sine of the Dub/Stalker
Label:	HYPERDUB (UK)
Format:	10"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	HYP 001EP

Final repress of the first, classic Kode 9 release (originally issued in 2004). "Kode 9 may have been widely lauded in the past, but those reactions are nothing next to the deep shudder of awe that greeted this jaw-dropping single with the enigmatic raw-throated Daddi Gee. Kode9's musical virus is a constant mutation of Jamaican dub & dancehall, German microtechno, and moody UK garage & drum'n'bass. Accurately describing the effect of this beatless dub cover of Prince's 'Sign o' the Times' with lyrics slangscribed by Gee into yard patios is near impossible, but these gents of the press were among the first to attempt it..."

Artist:	KODE9 & THE SPACEAPE
Title:	Kingstown (Vox)/Kingstown (Dub)
Label:	HYPERDUB (UK)
Format:	10"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	HYP 003EP

2005 release, repressed! "This third Kode 9 10" on Hyperdub is already something of a minor anthem, vibrating the bits other tunes can't reach. The instrumental version first aired in the last set of Radio 1's John Peel tribute night earlier this year, and on dubplate has grown into a sure-fire rewind at London dubstep/grime nights such as DMZ in Brixton and forward>> at Plastic People. On this release, not only has Kode 9's infamous vocalizer Daddi Gee shapeshifted, Lee Perry style, into a new incarnation as the Spaceape, but this time it's not about the mutated cover versions, just a straight up Spaceape dubtronic take on Jamaica's capital city. If that's not enough, this top ranking Kode9 riddim will make you cry with its heart wrenching synth riff, delayed tablas and enough surging sub-bass to sink Babylon."

Artist:	KODE9 & THE SPACEAPE
Title:	Curious/Portal
Label:	HYPERDUB (UK)
Format:	10"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	HYP 005EP

Kode9 & Spaceape emerge with this all-new single, the only vinyl outing for 2 tracks off the full-length CD, Memories Of The Future. Featuring one of Spaceape's most direct verbal performances yet, "Curious" is laced by the lush vocals of new recruit, Ms. Haptic. Rushed along by its bustling hi-hats, this track drops into Hyperdub's customary wall of sub. "Portal" swerves into another orbit altogether with deranged, alien synths skewing an accelerated, rollin' half-step groove, as Spaceape flows from outer to inner space. A wake up call to dub zombies everywhere.

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