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Local artist Scott Mcphee, releasing his four-track EP, has shown what electronic dub is really all about. Dark Arts of Dub isn’t necessarily aimed at the dance scene; my guess is that it’s aimed towards a different way of enjoying music. Lots of people may class it as absolute nonsense, yet artistically, his point-of-view comes across as abstract, and a little different from the rest.

Most of the tracks consist of weird, tweaked-out beats sitting around the 80/100 BPM mark, with many slices and rolls – pushed with delays – quite cleverly used. Plenty of orchestral hits are smashed throughout the tracks; it sort of gets a bit monotonous after a while. And lest we forget many dark, eerie pads washing through the background of the songs to give that “haunting” dark presence and make you shake in your booties.

It’s obvious I don’t enjoy this style of music, hence it comes across as experimental electronica that left me wondering “what was he thinking when he made these tracks?”

To me, any halfwit who smokes a joint and piss-farts around with a sequencing program could make a dozen of these songs in a week.

PATTY DUKE