kode9 + the spaceape

"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' and 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 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 astro-dancehall of ‘Quantum’. But as Spaceape reminds us in ‘Glass’ – “It’s the beginning, not the end, that we have to reach last.”

KODE9 + the SPACEAPE

MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE

HYPCD001

OUT SEPT/OCT 2006

tracklisting

1. Glass

2. Victims

3. Backward

4. Nine

5. Curious

6. Portal

7. Addiction

8. Sine

9. Correction

10. Kingstown

11. 9 Samurai

12. Bodies

13. Lime

14. Quantum

i say : "not so many new tunes on it.. but, this is just great. high fine. super fine." 9.0/10

well this answers the question in the wrong place but at the right time. or vice versa

your question was in wrong place at right time. or vice versa

9/10 thats high praise.

I don't know if I could handle a whole CD of Spaceape, but I'm looking for this on slsk to see.

kopying kills kapitalism

if someone could *ahem* point me in the direction of kode9/spaceape's 'sign of the dub', i'd appreciate it kthxplz

this is great

Yeah, I take back my reservations. This is pretty cool.

Easily one of my favourite albums of the year...

Not feeling. It's getting away from dubstep and into less adventurous, plain old electronic dub territory.

Spaceape is just a mumbling old man. I prefer the more propulsive effect of high speed MCing.

Sound like it's from 1993, not 2006.

I get what you're saying, but personally I love spaceape... 'high speed' mc'ing is two for a penny these days. Not saying that it's all shit but i just love the imagery and depth of spaceape's lyrical content, he makes pretty much every line ooze with meaning, especially on sine of the dub. Not really sure what you mean by 'getting away from dubstep' but as far as i see it there's not any set criteria or rules as to what a dubstep record should sound like, and if there was, it'd get really boring really quickly.

kingston town and samurai once is ncie.

on a system with decent subbass sine is utterly marvellous up really, really loud.