Jay Glass Dubs

Kosovo’s Sundial host Jay Glass Dubs at his loosest, ruggedest and most radiant with six tracks of unorthodox steppers’ dub whose feet barely touch the ‘floor.

‘Resurgence’ coughs up a full spectrum demonstration of Jay Glass Dubs’ finely honed, expressive dub-as-method in strong effect. It lands as the first on Sundial, a department of Kosovan label, Vargmal Records, after the main body’s turns by Leo Anibaldi with Donato Dozzy remixes. Dimitri Papadatos, aka JGD, plays to the other end of the label’s tastes with an exploration of expansive echo chamber netherworlds that dance in and out of dub proper, and tacitly related strains of post rock, dream-pop and 4th world ambient that all flock around the notion of mutant dub at heart.

‘Hyperacousis (for Miles)’ gives it up for Jay’s Bokeh bredder Miles Opland with a fathomless churn of heady delays applied to sloshing rhythm under beatific chorales like some detail of an A.R. Kane cut spun out on noumenal loom, setting feet in mid-air where ‘Arbitrary’ hinges around riocheting UK steppers’ rimshots and resolves to barrelling subbass momentum and stereo diffused chants, and ‘For Blackest’ feels like Raime buried by Om’ Al Cisneros. The flipside unwinds to a headier propulsion of Jah Wobble-y bass pressure and webs of flying dread-in-a-wind-tunnel contours that break down gloriously in the labyrinthine ‘Laguna’, before signing off with a stone cold highlight of his catalogue in the dream-textured zoner ‘Swint’, again dialling up the A.R. Kane comparison to breathtaking heights.