Title: SNKR036
Artist: Filter Dread
Label: Sneaker Social Club
Cat Number: SNKR036
Genre: Hardcore
A1: Talk All Low
A2: Underwave
A3: Space Beams
B1: Asid 888
B2: Ghost Square
B3: Data Temple
Something that I never tire of thinking to myself is that hardcore really isn’t my genre of choice. I’m house through and through, particularly techno with a house slant. Tech house before it became a dirty (compound) word. Give me a low slung bass underneath a long, drawn-out groove and I’m happy. However, the imagination on show within the hardcore musical firmament is boundless which makes it one of the most interesting home listens around right now. I don’t dance much to this stuff, rather have it as the soundtrack to my weekend coffee and pain au choc. Sneaker Social Club have been nice enough to furnish me with my dystopian break beat fix for a while now and Filter Dread is right at the top of the pile as far as the transmission of surreptitious sonic hieroglyphics is concerned. The six tracks here all feel redolent of a secret cipher. An update of the coded messages that are given over radio during times of living under occupation in order to inform the resistance of the potential danger they were in, and secret meetings. Machines will someday be developed to decipher these transient, incognito wavelengths and render them into a concrete semantic order. Until that happens though, we’re all just catching up.
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