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Artist:	KODE9 & THE SPACEAPE
Title:	Memories Of The Future
Label:	HYPERDUB (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	HYP 001CD

After the widely acclaimed Burial debut album, Hyperdub throw out another tangential long player, a mutant-satellite to the grime/dubstep scenes, this time from label boss Kode9 and resident vocalist Spaceape. Memories Of The Future features 14 dread-filled flash-backs and flash-forwards from a world trembling in an echology of fear. The future has collapsed in on the present and spaceship earth is on route to nowhere. The album brings together the long sought after Hyperdub debut single "Sine of the Dub" from early 2004 with other minor classics such as "Kingstown," recent singles "Backward" and "9 Samurai" as well as 10 new tracks of uneasy, sometimes queasy listening. Time-scrambling dubtronic poet Spaceape circulates around the lyrical black hole he calls home with tales of cultural addiction, urban paralysis, bioterror, smoldering flesh and psycho-affective meltdown. Yet they both manage to conjure up a strange joy in these hallucinations of dystopia which infect the real present. "Glass" eases you into a false sense of insecurity, a synthetic sea shanty for a spaceship adrift. "Victims" descends down through the dub chamber and resurfaces towards the "dread pop" of "Curious" (featuring debut appearance from Ms. Haptic), and the "dread hop" of "Backward" and "Portal." Spaceape's dark dictations and demented refrains form the consistent thread through 9's loping rhythms, deranged melodies and walls of muffled, driving sub-bass. Alongside the singularly infamous "Sine" are more doses of uniquely sticky, claustrophobic and katatonic bass poetry of "Nine" and "Correction." The album closes with the cold shiver of "Lime" and the astro-dancehall of "Quantum." But as Spaceape reminds us in "Glass," "It's the beginning, not the end, that we have to reach last."

Artist:	KODE9 & THE SPACEAPE
Title:	Black Sun
Label:	HYPERDUB (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	HYP 002CD

"It's been 5 years since South London-based duo Kode9 & the Spaceape's debut album. On this new disc, named after Kode9's influential 2009 single Black Sun, the intensity and themes of their debut Memories of the Future remain, but the delivery is clearer and more rapid, the beats more jagged and restless. Starting as a dense onslaught, Black Sun proceeds to expand and contract its galaxy, sucking you into its orbit, and daring you to come and bathe in the warmth of its toxic glow."

Artist:	KODE9 & THE SPACEAPE
Title:	Black Sun
Label:	HYPERDUB (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$25.50
Catalog #:	HYP 002LP

Gatefold 2LP version. "It's been 5 years since South London-based duo Kode9 & the Spaceape's debut album. On this new disc, named after Kode9's influential 2009 single Black Sun, the intensity and themes of their debut Memories of the Future remain, but the delivery is clearer and more rapid, the beats more jagged and restless. Starting as a dense onslaught, Black Sun proceeds to expand and contract its galaxy, sucking you into its orbit, and daring you to come and bathe in the warmth of its toxic glow."

Artist:	KODE9 & THE SPACEAPE
Title:	Other Man/Love Is The Drugs (feat. Cha Cha)
Label:	HYPERDUB (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	HYP 010EP

"'Otherman' backed with 'Love Is The Drug' is the lead single from Kode9 And The Spaceape's second long player Black Sun. Coming from oblique angles, these two songs introduce the breadth of the album. 'Otherman' opens with a sombre, arpeggiated march built from wavering analogue synth drones, lulling the listener until Spaceape's cracked communique interrupts the flow with downtrodden descriptions, wrapped around lop-sided rhythms. Sombre, flatline funk."

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