Episode 181: Dub Engines and Acid Skies

Episode 181 is the first one from the rebuilt room. I spent the day moving furniture, hauling the Mac Studio back downstairs, setting the keyboards and the edrums and the mics back where they belong, putting the whole studio back together after letting it sit fallow. And the moment it was standing again, I couldn't not play. This one got made in the small hours, composed and mixed and bounced while the rest of the house slept.

It opens in psytrance, all forward propulsion and acid hypnosis, until a rumbling spaceship cuts across the middle of it, low-end pressure that bends the whole thing somewhere stranger. From there it goes weird: psydub and dub techno, cavernous delay, bass you feel more than hear, everything dissolving into echo and space. Then it lands somewhere you don't expect, a high-tempo chill out, fast underneath but easy on top, the kind of comedown that keeps moving.

You can hear the room in it: a space that was packed away and breathing again. After a month of silence, this is the sound of the gear warming back up and the hands remembering what they were for. Living Room Music, literally, from a living room that just became a studio again.