Radioactive Man :: Dub Vault Volume 2 (UNA Sound)

A properly excellent twist on the genre for fans of old and new dub sounds.

There are few producers who can effortlessly pick 10 year-old tracks from their unreleased back catalog yet still sound fresh and bang up date. Keith Tenniswood (aka Radioactive Man) is such a producer and it helps that Keith has been seemingly ever present on the London music scene encapsulating collaborations with Andrew Weatherall as Two Lone Swordsman (resulting in electro classics Tiny Reminders and Stockwell Steppas),  to fearsome live hardware shows alongside studio engineering and running a label (Control Tower).

This EP surfaces Tenniswood’s love of all things dub and marks the second of such dubwise productions on UNA Sound. Unsurprisingly it’s all about the bass weight here—great slabs of the stuff fire across the A side “Explosion” as crisp snare and kick combos pummel the speaker cones. The following “Razor” beats out classic  sub swagger alongside dub siren manipulations. Framed as a friendly tip of the hat to Peter Tosh and Adrian Sherwood’s On U Sound, Tenniswood also contributes some ace low slung guitar twang to round things off nicely. The flipside “Blazer” sees a collaboration with James Forster delivering thick welts of bass squeezed between skipping kicks and tape echo splatter.

A properly excellent twist on the genre for fans of old and new dub sounds.

Dub Vault Volume 2 is available from UNA Sound.