Track Of The Day: Drexciya - Wavejumper (UR)

One of the best. A relatively subdued electro track from Drexciya, which makes it all the more sinister. Subdued in the sense that its density and heaviness allow it to play well within itself. The beats are pure B-boy breaks and from this rigidity all manner of abstraction can flourish. There’s a spoken word that sounds twisted within its own depravity, “You must face the power of the black wave of Ladozia, before you can become a Drexciyan wavejumper, . . . . There are only two wavejumpers in existence today . . . .Wavejumpers, catch a wave.” and an industrial, high pitched noise that goes off like some sort of harmonic steam valve. There’s a lot of power in this track, you feel it could go off at any minute, but instead it rumbles along, consuming everything it comes into contact with. If it did “go off”, you feel it might be short-lived and momentary. The fact that it is all suppressed power and foreboding allows it to be more pervasive and enveloping.