Djunya - Elevate - 12"

Label: LoDubs
Genre: Dubstep
Format: 12" Vinyl

Sometimes things just don't work out. I mean, we all now what they say about good intentions. I guess that is all a matter of your perspective how true those sort of sayings are, but from our standpoint, with regards to LoDubs, there are many artists out there who are unleashing some truly earth shifting tunes, and although we want to help disseminate these works of art to the masses, sometimes you just have to hold back for the right material. Djunya is a perfect example. We first heard him, and his material a few steps back.

Among that batch contained the future classics "Subsol" and "Contact" which firmly placed him at the top of the pile of practitioners of the sound from the 415. Like many others, we where blown away by these productions, and although they where not within the trajectory of our release schedule, we knew that akin to celestial orbits, things would line up down the road a piece. That happened with "Elevate" and "Puja Karna Sangit," and quite suddenly I might add, as they are among our most recent signings. "Elevate" is a sprawling gem of a track, which manages to run wth a certain ferociousness without being derivitive in any way, carrying its weight above a chassis of pronounced yet un-heavy-handed breakstep by adding what is natural to such realms, thick layers of keys and bass, but with a purely optimistic feel, that seems to conjure a largely hidden aspect of the spectrum of bass music.

Together, all elements seem so perfectly matched about "Elevate" that is is almost as though it is an object carved from wood; as if it is, and always was, meant to be, as it is.

As doing battle with an A side like that would be an exercise in futility, we opted to add a beautiful piece of subterranean ambience known as "Puja Karna Sangit." No less evocative in its own way, yet in a way that without being a direct answer to such a question, causes one to wonder what maybe Muslimgauze would be up to, had he been alive to witness this movement. That would, however, purely be in a reference to its mood, as "Puja Karna Sangit" is as percussion laden as much of the material from the Skull Disco circle, but in a way that seems to hide beneath the waves of bass like a pulse.

Side A
1. Elevate <LISTEN

Side B
1. Puja Karna Sangit <LISTEN