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In Drum Play

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By 2016 the shine had long since come off “post dubstep,” and many of the leading lights of its turn of the decade moment had slipped off into other sounds — mostly house and techno. The Hessle Audio collective, though — DJ/producers Pearson Sound and Pangaea and DJ-only Ben UFO — managed to expand their sound to fit into the techno world without abandoning what they had before. So with Pangaea’s second album: sound palette-wise, this really is a techno record, the sound of machines rather than samples, and totally in keeping with a continental European, Bohemian raving vibe. But though it’s shorn of the breakbeats and reggae influences from London pirate radio culture that flooded Pangaea’s earlier work, those sounds are here in spirit. The groove, the bass weight, the attitude are all still very much from the lineage of jungle, UK garage and broken beat. It’s a record that’s at home on a LOT of different dance floors.

Joe Muggs

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