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Artist:	2562
Title:	Embrace
Label:	3024 (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	3024 004EP

"00011001010100011000---> we welcome you to the fourth release on 3024 and our quest for numerologic beats for your body and soul continues with two tracks from the Dutch dubtechno hero 2562. Dave Huismans has treated us with a wonderful series of 12"s and his debut album Aerial (on Tectonic) this year which has gained him a well respected place in the dubstep and techno community. On this new release he strips the music to its bare essentials -- what is left is an extremely funky 2 step workout on Embrace, where crisp beats are setting the pace until soothing pads take over and take it to another level. 'Hijack' shows us the shadow side of 2562, also reminiscent of his work as A Made Up Sound on Shed's Soloaction label. 'Hijack' is a driving four to the floor track with shards of synth pads and sounds floating freely around a menacing bass line. The massive tension in this track is never really unleashed which leaves you yearning for another play; the 3024bots have had this on continuous repeat, and they hope you will enjoy this offering just as much. ---> 00011001010100011000 end of transmission. Enjoy."

Artist:	2562
Title:	Aerial
Label:	TECTONIC (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	TEC 004CD

This is the debut full-length release by Dave Huismans aka 2562. After releasing two of the fastest-selling 12"s on Tectonic in 2007, it was a natural step to drop something truly stunning. If you can imagine a perfect marriage between Benga or Skream-style rhythm and bass with Basic Channel soundscapes -- you will realize why everyone is getting so excited about this album. Aerial follows the two-track vinyl teaser Techno Dread/Enforcers which are featured on the CD version, alongside the lead tracks "Channel Two" and "Kameleon," both drawn from the 2007 singles that found their way onto the decks of everyone from Mary Anne Hobbs, Skream, Kode9, Laurent Garnier, and anyone else with their ears primed for heavy bass, deep funk and sublime dub. Aerial ticks all the boxes for a varied, multi-faceted debut, melding genres with a distinctive production style that is smart, inventive and entirely futuristic. Dutch-born, Huismans borrows his name from his Hague home district code "2562" but takes his musical influence from further afield: Detroit, Kingston, Croydon, and Berlin. Huismans' previous incarnations have included the dubbed-out broken-beat of Dogdaze on the Flying High label and more recently as A Made Up Sound -- making serious moves in techno on Shed's Hardwax-affiliated Subsolo imprint. If 2007 was a year for Burial and Pinch, then summer 2008 surely has 2562 written all over it.

Artist:	2562
Title:	Unbalance
Label:	TECTONIC (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	TEC 006CD

This is the second full-length album by Dave Huismans aka 2562, the follow-up to his roundly acclaimed debut, Aerial (TEC 004CD/021LP). Unbalance pushes both his creative talents, and the boundaries of dubstep, to another level entirely. This is an exceptional body of electronic music, and fully demonstrates 2562's adept ability to move through engaging soundscapes with both pin-point precision drum programming and innovative sample regeneration. 2562 is named after the postcode in The Hague, Netherlands where Huismans lives -- a city detached from the main epicenters of dubstep, thus bringing both cultural distance and a uniquely diverse sound to the project. Unbalance sees 2562's vision of dubstep moving forward into previously-unexplored areas. Warmer than its predecessor, innovation and experimentation is still as evident as ever, as the influence of Theo Parrish and Flying Lotus meet with the deep end of Bristol bass music. With productions drawing inspiration from garage, dubstep, house, techno and broken beats -- affiliations and collaborations have proliferated -- killer remixes and one-offs have cemented the Dutchman firmly in the "A" list of contemporary production talent. Unbalance is impeccably built, and accessibly disposed: sheer dancefloor carnage is guaranteed. With this new album, 2562 breaks new ground -- in moving away from the dub-techno associations of his earlier works, he creates a whole new world. From the outset, "Intro" and "Flashback" let fly some of the face cards in Huismans' deck -- the ample swell of swung garage informed by a new school sensibility, all grounded by that trademark giant bass presence. "Lost" reprises a familiar broken refrain in refixed mode, landing with a delightful low-end, almost junglist descent and a huge, mid-range melodic sustain -- absolutely killer stuff. With "Like A Dream," the album really motors -- squashed Mr. Fingers-style acid machinations inside wild bass and drum swing. Tear up the dub instructions, the diversity and breathtaking momentum of this fine album moves fleet of foot -- like Usain Bolt over Berlin.

Artist:	2562
Title:	Channel Two/Circulate
Label:	TECTONIC (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	TEC 015EP

After stealing the most praise away from veteran greats such as Substance and Stephen Brown on the last Soloaction remix EP, "A Made Up Sound," appears here as 2562 to resounding and stunning effect. Cleverly uniting elements from four/four Moritz-influenced dub techno, deep danceable dubstep and the less fractured end of broken beat, this 12" is already finding favor with all the usual suspects and further opens the gate for dubstep to finally achieve its innate rhythmic destiny. Killer.

Artist:	2562
Title:	Techno Dread/Enforcers
Label:	TECTONIC (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	TEC 020EP

2562 limbers up with a stellar 12". The galloping, Ritalin-infested skanker "Techno Dread" harnesses the exuberance of Mala's forays into four/four dancefloor ruffage, the depth and groove of recent Skull Disco and the smoked piquancy of Deepchord/Berlin dubness. "Enforcers" displays brittle but not-quite broken drums illustrating a new reign... a new strain of garridge reborn. Warmth comes in the shape of a full-force, endlessly inventive low-end line. Dubstep for dancing -- rush the floor!

Artist:	2562
Title:	Aerial
Label:	TECTONIC (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	TEC 021LP

Double LP version -- repressed. If you can imagine a perfect marriage between Benga or Skream-style rhythm and bass with Basic Channel soundscapes -- you will realize why everyone is getting so excited about this album. Aerial ticks all the boxes for a varied, multi-faceted debut, melding genres with a distinctive production style that is smart, inventive and entirely futuristic. Dutch-born, Huismans borrows his name from his Hague home district code "2562" but takes his musical influence from further afield: Detroit, Kingston, Croydon, and Berlin. Huismans' previous incarnations have included the dubbed-out broken-beat of Dogdaze on the Flying High label and more recently as A Made Up Sound -- making serious moves in techno on Shed's Hardwax-affiliated Subsolo imprint. If 2007 was a year for Burial and Pinch, then summer 2008 surely has 2562 written all over it.

Artist:	2562
Title:	Love In Outer Space/Third Wave
Label:	TECTONIC (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	TEC 029EP

This 12" marks a significant return by 2562 to Tectonic with the first plate to touch down since his highly-acclaimed Aerial. "Love In Outer Space" is one sneaky manoeuvre -- a warped synth hook rattles your skull in a woozy, intergalactic machine-funk trip that is as groundbreaking and disorienting as 2001: A Space Odyssey. "Third Wave" is a more accessible 4/4 roller. Heavily spun by Martyn, Appleblim, Peverelist, and many others, this energizing rhythm sounds like Herbie Hancock hitting a dubstep fix.

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