Featured artists on this edition of Slices include Subeena/Dot, Dabrye, Plaid, Romanthony, Brothers Vibe, Italoboyz and Exercise One. On the label front, you’ll get to know 20:20 Vision, while the tech focus is on Dub Taylor.
skab/t is set to release his follow-up album to Preemptive reissue. This album, titled Crooked With These, is a dark and dirty downbeat-driven look at what happens when the milk crate runs dry. Nine tracks of chopped and chomping rhythms licked into a frenzy by warm and distorted basslines and fetishistically sparse melodies. Taking his lead from masters of the dirty cut such as Machine Drum, Proswell, Ilkae and Dabrye, he ties together minimal Jazz, P-Funk and avant-garde explorations with twisted samples and relentlessly churning atmospheres. It's a sppoky record, by turns nostalgic, optimistic and reflective.
You have probably heard of Italian beatmaker AD Bourke from his TrebleO Beat Tape, released back in summer 2008. His latest mixtape was made for the new website This Is Science, brainchild of Dave Farlam, co-founder of TrebleO and one half of Yotoko (with Domu).