Essential Dub collection. 3 cds worth of the founding fathers of Dub. Releases like this should be only special edition with fancy casing and whatnot. This collection is released like an ambiguous superhero not knowing the power that it holds. Dub sounds better on vinyl but these cds do have the dirty fidelity that is contained on the originals. No half-steppin here.

Gnarly, no nonsense hard breaks, dark b-boy bridges, jungle and ambience. This bloke serves dense tones and bass with style and wit. Not too complicated but not too simple programming. Moody melodies from fat synths creates a darkwave that is infectious. Like a delicious dirty poison this artist is definitely a brew of Skam pub.

So much of the generic population refer to this album when critiquing Aphex's style or ability to write music without considering his whole career of writing music. Such folley and misguidance. Some people need to actually take some time and delve a little, and learn. Aphex's music abilities were way advanced before this ablum was put out. The Hangable auto bulb eps were a precursor to this album's style and were amazing, as was Melodies from Mars with folk medlies. Drum n bass was not Aphex's only forte, thus the releases of Analord series to turn the bubbleheads away. Wash and rinse.

Post idm with all the telltale signs. Softer rhythms, quite intricate at times but with soft voice drones and guitar noodlings. This release is actually pretty good but the concept is old already and way overdone to be repeated. Not my cup of tea if you can tell.

Quite impressive stuff here. This is electronica in mature and aware form. Not too fast, not too slow, great amounts of bass and crisp percussion. Moves in and out of electronic dub and detroit techno with idm rolls. Well rounded music.

A short but sweet release by 000 here, about 34 minutes. The first notion when hearing the first bursts of audio is a nod to Richard Devine's squiggly and sharp background textures with a hard 3/4 beat up in the front. But as the songs unfold you can tell that 000 are trying to do their own thing with moving melodies and casual rhythmics. Perfect for the open minded dance floor or dance floors to appear in the future world.

Small but hella strong release. Chilled spooky,Aphexy melodies with rugged, cut-up beats that just fit perfectly. He has got Skam written all over his style and that is good. Even has a wicked house track to boot! Comes with a bottle of yellow liquid in the jewel case spine. Upon inspection I have concluded that it is not urine or cologne but is quite rich in food color. Lab mice exposed to this element showed no signs of lowered standard of health or mental aptitude. The control lab mice group did show some signs of boredom and jealousy. Just kidding.

This short album is not very disco sounding to me. Much more Italo and just proper early techno vibe. The AFX analord releases sound very related in the use of simple delays and reverbs and overall dynamics in the sound of analog synths to classic drum machines. Not as error laden as Analord tracks though. Modern computers were probably involved in the making of this (Kerrier District 2). Great release from a very diverse musician.

I recieved the password card for these tracks with volume 5. I would say that all of the 5x5 volumes have potential to have the mp3 password card. I would also assume that the reason that the password card is found so often in these series bags is because alot of these volumes have post rock tracks amongst the idm type tracks, which many idm heads would consider a turn off and feel unfullfilled.

The first track title should give you a good idea of how this whole ep sounds. Very tight and synthetic beats, almost too tight and synthetic for Mr Goon, and sharp synth stabs are littered all through out this release. The innocence seems to be lost with this new style, definitely not the chilled and human heart beat felt under these tracks as he is so well known to write. Hopefully this does not reflect his future release to come.