Vol. 3 album cover
Vol. 3

Topdown Dialectic

2021
Peak Oil

The anonymous person behind this project has maintained an inverted cloudbeat style for almost a decade, and the recordings are only getting better. This sound has roots in the Basic Channel catalog of the Nineties, where the foam and dirt of dub was brought into close contact with pulses from other musics. In the hands of the Dialectic, this variant of echo funk is light and nimble and opens into a sort of origami greenhouse the more you listen to it.

Sasha Frere-Jones

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