Having already featured ‘A Game Of Two Halves’, it’s only right that ‘Rog’ also has its place in the sun. What I like about this track is its volume and restraint. Also the drums at the beginning have exactly the same sound as my own personal impression of downbeat percussion, Elements coalesce in this track quite quickly and the funkiness and syncopation soon become irresistible. This is interesting because there are some classic dub techno traits present here which very quickly take off and transform into something else entirely. We shouldn’t be too surprised at this as Swag, aka Chris Duckenfield and Richard Brown are the brains behind this release, two chaps with more than their fair share of funk corpuscles. And the record came out on Phono, Matthew Herbert’s label. Herbert contributes a remix of ‘Rog’, which is nice, but the mighty original holds sway. The way space is made in order for the sounds to breed is something special. Tension builds and worlds collide. And in spite of the discipline of its execution, there’s a real primitive edge to it, the soundtrack to those monkeys freaking out at the beginning of ‘20011’ when the camera pans away.
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