- The first release from Strago & Snooks on the Blackmarket Soho-based Niteshade Inc was two immaculate slices of digital tribalism, dubstep orthodoxy dressed up in techno sheen and mechanical shudder. The second release to roll out from the mysterious London duo isn't exactly a shocker, but it's at least a little different: sparer and spookier, these tracks strip down the already wan frame of "Infect" and "Kuru" to levels that expose the creepiest possibilities of dubstep.
"Pills" fashions its top-heavy swing so that it sounds like permanent rotation, slowly sweeping strings and Anstam-like percussive wallops layering together over a backdrop of distorted voices and what sounds like digitally-shredded samples of dogs barking. Like its name would imply, on the flipside, "Pot Stir" is all about steady percolation: waddling on a Skream-esque foundation of steady but snappy snares, the track's biggest moments seem to shatter into dazzling shards of micro-melody, twitching out into the abyss. It's cavernous, lumbering and sounds like it would be impossible to dance to: Yeah, in the world of dubstep, this is the good stuff.
Tracklist A Pills
B Potstir