Scuba Triangulation
Scuba, one of the minds at the forefront of the dubstep scene, releases his long anticipated follow up album to 2008’s A Mutual Antipathy on his own Hotflush imprint this March
Scuba, aka Paul Rose, has been at the forefront of the dubstep scene since its birth. Having founded the innovative and influential Hotflush Recordings label in 2003, he has continually brought colour and depth to an advancing genre, expanding its sonic structure and increasing its influence on the wider electronic scene.
Through Scuba and seminal work by central figures including Distance, Vex’d and more recently Mount Kimbie and Joy Orbison, Hotflush remains crucial to the immediate moment and the developing future of the most exciting aspects of electronic music. Following the first Scuba LP, A Mutual Antipathy (2008), and the more recent Aesaunic EP (2009), this album takes the Scuba sound to a new level.
The collision of dubstep and techno has produced startling music from a wide range of producers in the last few years, none more than Scuba, and that has been well documented. But Triangulation moves past the dubstep/techno axis and into new territory. Working at multiple tempos, the album covers an area ranging from house to experimental drum n bass while retaining the Scuba sound that has become so distinctive.
As big fans of Scuba and Hotflush here at Diskotopia, we literally can not wait for this to drop properly (the promos have sounded amazing!)
Here’s a taster for the album in a new video for the heartbreakingly beautiful track ‘Before’, taken from the aforementioned forthcoming album Triangulation. The video is a collaboration between Scuba and Sam Geer, and you can watch it below.
“Before” by Scuba from Sam Geer on Vimeo.
update: We have been very lucky to have gotten hold of a promo copy of the album, and it’s amazing beyond expectation!
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