Audiopile Review: At the front of the ongoing resurgence of dub and pressurized bass exploration is Jay Glass Dubs, who has been tweaking the sound for most of the last decade. After issuing lusted after releases for Bokeh Versions, Ecstatic, Origin Peoples, and The Tapeworm, the skids have been greased for artists like Froid Dub, Ghost Dubs and Purelink. While there are contemporaries that slot in neatly next to Jay Glass Dubs, it’s probably also worth mentioning the sonic clatter raised up by On-U Sound and Kevin Martin as notable precedents to Jay, their industrial strength beatdowns echo like phantoms through his wall-shaking riddems and haunted atmospherics. Like so much of the great leftfield electronic dub that’s accrued since the ‘80s, the paranoia dial is cranked all the way up on Resurgence. Among the big washes of grimy bass come gnarled, heavy knocking, clanging percussion, hissing hi-hats and eerie vocal snippets buried deep in the mix, Resurgence coming off like the soundtrack to a smoked out haunted house. Big tip for the bass heads.

Sundial is the leftfield division of Vargmal Records showcasing the outer edges of sound and bringing forward artists who push the boundaries. For the birth of this endeavor, Jay Glass Dubs commences the project’s take-off with the six-track LP, ‘Resurgence’. The prolific Greek producer, whose explorations exercise a distinctive take on dub music, releases his new album on September 27th.

‘Resurgence’ is shaped by a perennial sonic stream of abstract dub formations. Within this elevated, desert-like plane, doused by the energy of the sun-heated strings, the hypnotic repercussions maintain an unaltered mood equilibrium of forbearance, stabilizing a majestic inner poise. Throughout this spiritual expedition, crystalline sounds render an effect of prismatic granularity, decorating further the slow self-awakening with their abundance.

Confidently, Jay Glass Dubs, with compositional prowess as a compass in his palm, leads the way through his genuine, vast field of soothing enchantments. By fulfilling promises of meditative deliverance, ‘Resurgence’, in its immersive entirety, cleanses with therapeutic waters, a compassionate core of introspectiveness and essential purity.