Metal - Point Vacancies (Remixed) (ESP Institute)

 

Title: Point Vacancies (Remixed)

Artist: Metal

Label: ESP Institute

Cat Number: ESP088B

Genre: Break Beats/Dub/Disco’s Underbelly

A1: Point Vacancies (Hodge Remix)

A2: Dislocation Climb (Jamie Paton Remix)

B1: Dislocation Climb (Jamie Paton Dubwise)

B2: Dislocation Climb (Jamie Paton Dubwise ll)

Originally released back in the salad days of 2020, ‘Point Vacancies’ finally sees a set of remixes. Has it been worth the wait? Well, going by the all-encompassing grandeur of hodge’s break beat monster, absolutely. It’s a symphonictastic, dark moon rising piece of uber controlled tribal rage. Every home should have one, but probably doesn’t. Jamie Paton, one half of Metal with Mike Bourne, then steps in and syncopates the hell out of it with a piston – powered, chugtastic piece of work, the tireless momentum of which exists on the sharp edges of dub. Something that is descended into in the next two instalments. The ’Dubwise’ mix doesn’t depart too much from the remix. More transparent than translucent. The sharpness remains but then the descent into corrosion begins with ‘Dubwise ll’, which is the imagined soundtrack to a lost Samuel Beckett play in which respiratory functions slowly die out. Hodge’s remix will probably get the most play, but everything here is superb, evocative and imaginative.I just love writing about stuff like this.