Browse by Label: HYPERDUB (UK)

Artist:	BURIAL
Title:	Burial
Label:	HYPERDUB (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	HDB 001CD

Repressed and heavily in demand --one of the true signature albums of 2006. This first album on Kode9's Hyperdub label comes from the mysterious Burial. On this stunning self-titled CD debut, Burial carves out a sound which sends the dormant slinky syncopations of UK garage, via radio interference, into a padded cell of cushioned, muffled bass, passing through the best of Pole's Berlin crackle dub. Burial explores a tangential, parallel dimension of the growing sound of dubstep. Burial's parallel dimension sounds set in a near future South London underwater. You can never tell if the crackle is the burning static off pirate radio transmissions, or the tropical downpour of the submerged city outside the window. In their sometimes suffocating melancholy, most of these tracks seem to yearn for drowned lovers. The smouldering desire of "Distant Lights" is cooled only by the percussive ice sharp slicing of blades and jets of hot air blowing from the bass. Listen also for a fleeting appearance from Hyperdub's resident vocalist, the Spaceape unravelling his crypto-biography. In its loud quietness, Burial takes his kitchen crackle aesthetic neither from the digital glitch nor merely from a nostalgia for vinyl's materiality. Instead, as "Pirates" suggests, Burial's crackle mutates the tactile surplus value of pirate radio transmissions. Burial's mix is haunted. Echoed voices breeze in and out, on road to another time. Pirate signals from other frequencies stream in. This is a tidal wave of noise submerging all but the crispest syncopations. The noise is not violent, but caressing, tickling, exciting the ends of your nerves. Utterly seductive.

Artist:	BURIAL
Title:	Burial
Label:	HYPERDUB (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	HDB 001LP

Now finally bowing to widespread and sustained demand, Hyperdub now issues a specially re-tooled vinyl edition of the amazing Burial album, available for a strictly limited period. A continual seller ever since release in April 2006, demand for Burial's roundly praised debut has rocketed, following a swathe of superlative appraisals and high rankings in the various year-end review sections. With the DJ in mind, optimum sonic integrity has been maintained by removing the CD version's beatless opening and closing tracks, and the remaining 11 tunes have been re-sequenced and re-cut to allow those 4 that have until now not appeared on vinyl to be presented in newly-mastered 12"-standard audio across the first two sides. With both the South London Boroughs and Distant Lights EPs now out of print and likely to remain that way, this limited edition two-wax pack offers the only way to get your Burial fix in club-ready configuration, but it won't be around forever, as the ever-elusive producer is near to completing his next opus, at which point this changes tense from present to past.

Artist:	BURIAL
Title:	Untrue
Label:	HYPERDUB (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	HDB 002CD

This is the second full-length release on Hyperdub from the UK's mysterious and much-acclaimed Burial. Of all the artists past and present who claim to let their music do their talking for them, Burial is one of the elite band of whom this truly is the case. In fact, so reluctant is he to engage with the cult-of-personality hoopla that surrounds almost every modern producer and musician of merit, that he remains a genuine recluse; he has never appeared live, only one obliquely-angled publicity photograph is known to exist, and the number of interviews he has given can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Yet despite this, his music speaks loud and wide, and the world has been listening ever since his South London Boroughs EP debut on Hyperdub in March 2005. His eponymous album, which began life as a low-key release in May 2006, is now widely-regarded as the benchmark release of the ever-widening dubstep genre, picking up unanimous critical acclaim along the way, and ending the year heavily featured in many "best of" polls. Now Burial returns with Untrue, a new record of weird soul music, which lovingly processes spectral female voices into vaporized R&B and smudged 2-step garage. Vocal lines are blurred, smeared, pitched up pitched down and pitch bent until their content is cast adrift from their original context and they whisper their saccharin sweet nothings into the void. The album continues with the debut's crackle-drenched yearning and bustling syncopations, haunted by the ghosts of rave, but also reveals some new Burial treats with a more glowing, upbeat energy. Kicking off with the skittering 2-step syncopations and vocal science of "Archangel," "Near Dark" and "Ghost Hardware," before long it descends into a space of radiant divas and ambience. Where Burial first was humid, suffocating and unrelentingly sad, Untrue is less sunless. Many of the tracks are so sweet they become toxic, underscored by the almost geological rumbles of growling bass lines. Unlike the overpoweringly melancholic prevailing mood of before, Burial's sound is now better defined as a downcast euphoria typified by the epic, muted optimism of the album's last track, "Raver." Forget central heating -- the radioactivity of this album is all that you'll need to keep you warm this winter. Untrue is available as a full 13-track digipack CD, including recent underground hit "Ghost Hardware," and a 9-track DJ-friendly double vinyl set, from which some of the beatless pieces have been edited.

Artist:	L.V. (FEAT. ERROL BELLOT & DANDELION)
Title:	Globetrotting/Takeover
Label:	HYPERDUB (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	HDB 005EP

L.V. consists of four Southeast London musicians/producers whose earthy sound, heavy bass, tight programming and lush vocal collaborations is a welcome reality check in an era of reggae lightweights. "Globetrotting" features the sweet vocal tones of Errol Bellot, who first burst onto the reggae scene in 1981. He began recording for S & G Records -- one of the main recording studios for established artists like Carol Thompson, Sugar Minott and Winston Reedy. On the flip, "Takeover" takes it even deeper with a syrupy low-end voiced by Dandelion, who is the vocalist with Free King Sound.

Artist:	BUG (FEAT. KILLA P & FLOW DAN), THE
Title:	Skeng
Label:	HYPERDUB (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	HDB 006EP

An exclusive sneak preview from The Bug's devastating new album. "Skeng" has been trashing dancefloors around the world for the last few months, with its militantly slow half-step and brick wall of bass. The track is ignited by the gunman comic genius of two members of East London's prolific Roll Deep grime crew, Killa P. & Flow Dan, whose low-slung, rapid-fire deliveries bulldoze all who stand in the way. On the flip, Kode9 drags the vocals into the video game arcade in his remix that'll see more rewinds than your dead, dusty tape deck would ever be able to handle.

Artist:	QUARTA 330/KODE9
Title:	Sunset Dub/9 Samurai
Label:	HYPERDUB (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	HDB 007EP

This release from young Japanese producer Quarta 330 literally jumps off the vinyl, with each rhythmic element like its own micro-explosion in your speakers. "Sunset Dub" buzzes in with its skittering, glitchy skank and a brain-tingling melody grabs you like a synthetic snake charmer. On the flip, Quarta 330 drags Kode9's 2005 epic "9 Samurai" screaming into the arcade to get its circuits mangled. Not for the over-18s. Contains additives.

Artist:	ZOMBY
Title:	Mu5h/Spliff Dub (Rustle Remix)
Label:	HYPERDUB (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	HDB 009EP

This is installment #2 of Hyperdub's rapid-fire assault on 2008, which continues to mine a rich bleep seam. Both Zomby and Glaswegian producer Rustie have built up a dedicated following with a string of off-key productions. Their first Hyperdub outing is headlined by Zomby's epic bleep symphony "Mu5h," a dramatic and melodic 8-bit stepper, while the retooling of "Spliff Dub" scuttles along with wonky percussion, jiggy grooves, speaker-busting bass, blaring synths and a chopped-up vocal instructing you how to "keep the evil away."

Artist:	DARKSTAR
Title:	Need You/Squeeze My Lime
Label:	HYPERDUB (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	HDB 010EP

On their first release for Hyperdub, Darkstar donate two slices of juicy, tingling, infectious vocoder love that will have you leaking oil everywhere. "Need You" showcases their refined ear for a catchy melody -- a vocal earworm with some serious robot romance and silicon sadness. UK garage meets Daft Punk meets Roger Troutman, or a body-popping 1982 Burial. "Squeeze My Lime" is a tangy synthesis of dub and hip-hop from another dimension. Darkstar has the Hyperdub seal of freshness.

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.

Artist:	MASSIVE MUSIC/KODE 9 & THE SPACEAPE
Title:	Find My Way/Quantum
Label:	HYPERDUB (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	HYP 006EP

Hyperdub's first release of 2007 is a two-barrel volley designed to put some spring in your (dub) step. On the A-side, Kode9 finally drops his long-awaited bouncing re-rub of Massive Music's "Find My Way." Like Augustus Pablo trapped in Tron, this arcade game skank has a drop that has caused power cuts everywhere its been road-tested, from Beijing to Brixton. The B-side reveals a chunkier and broken edit of Kode9 & Spaceape's "Quantum," the concluding track from the Memories Of the Future album.

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Artist:	IKONIKA
Title:	Please/Simulacrum
Label:	HYPERDUB (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	HDB 008EP