The last time I talked about the Bug on here I had some serious reservations about what I perceived at the time to be a negative reaction against the image that the press created around him, and I thought this reactionary method might result in maybe not the best music results. However this track Catch a Fire suggests a more complex process at work:

The way he re-appropriates the Sleng track is kind of brilliant, and reveals someone who hasn’t turned his back on his previous output, but is reworking through it. The vibe of this kind of reminds me of that last Fugazi album, if Bjork were singing over it. Both utilize space & restraint in the music where there used to be a more raw aggressive style. But in both cases it isn’t merely a change in direction, so much as a reworking of the older style, and letting other qualities of the music let themselves be more fully heard. Creation through subtraction, as it were. One can also sort of look at this track as the Echo of Sleng, the Burial-ization of music.

Avicenna – Murder Dub

This is a dub I mixed recently. It is fairly rough and somewhat conservative in how it treats the song, but it is one that I felt was really deserving of some sort of dub treatment.

If you want to look at the powerful influence dub continues to exert over electronic music, you could do a lot worse than checking out this free EP.

Of course, in my perfect world, dub would exert a lot of power on all music.