Sascha Dive - Beautiful People EP (Bondage Music)

 

Title: Beautiful People EP

Artist: Sascha Dive

Label: Bondage Music

Cat Number: BOND12069

Genre: Dub Techno

A1: Dub Chronicles

A2: Late Night Up North

B1: Beautiful People ft. Robert Owens

B2: Meditation

“It’s dub techno Jim, and it’s got plenty of kick”, which is essential to move the genre on from the chin stroking to the dance floor. Although I love the dynamics of the genre, it can occasionally get bogged down in its own sonic sludge. So, it’s always nice to hear it when it breaks free and expresses itself a bit. There’s a lot of it about though, and I think that a problem has always been a real one. Tracks do tend to sound the same, aside from bespoke flourishes. What Sascha Dive has done here is loosened the shackles a little. Of course a track called ‘Dub Chronicles’ pretty much speaks for itself. However, starting with ‘Late Night Up North’, the tempo begins to swing a bit, until we end up with ‘Meditation’, which feels like it unleashes the releases pent up momentum. In between we’ve got the Robert Owens voiced ‘ Beautiful People’, which is what it is. A dub techno track with Robert Owens repeating the phrase ‘Beautiful People’ at strategic intervals. It’s dub techno, but it’s more like dub house, which is dub techno at a house tempo, or is it? Either way, it’s good.