The third and final installment in the Intrusion 12” series, taken from the album The Seduction Of Silence, featuring Paul St Hilaire, aka Tikiman, most who know this vocalist have sought out anything bearing his voice since his dub techno experiments with Rhythm & Sound.
Little Angel is a dub lullaby, sweetened with the voice of Paul St Hilaire, plodding melodic dub, with that hidden layer of crackle and noise. Angel Version removes the vocal, and serves up a more Rhythm & Sound dub track, still enveloping the listener with a heart warming feeling, only heightened by a brief return of a ghostly Tiikiman. A Night To Remember seems to steal a portion of the original melody, and embed it in a summer wave of undulating synth. The digital version of the EP contains an exclusive, Kingston’s Burning Dub, which strips everything back to the bones, veering away from a straight up 4/4 rhythm, and adding even more echo to the mix.
It may not be a template for something new in dub techno, but it warms the soul.
Wayne Stronell
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