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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: The Bug - Flying

Posted 8/12/2008 11:23 AM by Samuel Duke

Tags: Samuel Duke, dub, electronic, reggae, dancehall, downtempo

London producer The Bug (born Kevin Martin and fka GOD and Techno Animal) makes trippy, rotund bass tracks, songs that bend and sway like the late DJ Screw making dubstep beats. His new album London Zoo is a bruising headphone masterpiece, flipping from high-energy dancehall bombs to slower sample-heavy jams that sound like the soundtrack to a slo-mo shootout scene in a neo-noir flick. Today we have “Flying” an EXCLUSIVE unreleased track that wears its dub on its sleeve—sampled downtempo hits echoing around and an tenuous but optimistic reggae vocal (“My music makes people smile”). I don't know about smiling, but there is some serious head-nodding going on here right now. And while The Bug’s tunes might find acceptance amongst the Rizzla-rolling youths of Brixton, this is still music for everyone, even those without a hoodie in the closet.

Sounds like: Flying Lotus, 77Klash, Lee "Scratch" Perry

Exclusive Download: The Bug - Flying

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