Dub

Review: Some three years on from their sole 12" release, Italian twosome DT-90 finally return to action with a thoroughly atmospheric debut album on Space of Variants. In keeping with the label's suitably horizontal, head-in-the-clouds ethos, "Kone" offers an attractive, heady and pungent blend of manipulated field recordings, spaced-out electronics, dub-wise rhythms, mind-altering ambience and hypnotic, Deepchord style dub techno. Highlights are plentiful, from the head-nodding ambient dub skank of "Motion Fluid" and ambient techno/dub techno fusion of "COAS", to the drifting aural clouds and glimpse of audio sunshine that is "Gravity". "Northern Wood", an ultra-deep, reverberating meander through mid-tempo dub techno, is also inspiring.