Denny Island
Label: Rubadub
Format: 12"
Genre: Techno, Techno/House
$19.99
Availability: In stock
CEO of DBA, Inta and Lost Fiutures, and highly regarded for his DJ Persuasion mixtapes, Benjy Semtek is a real captain of the UK club underground. After too long out of sight, he revives the cherry-picking in-house label of Glasgow techno powerhouse Rubadub with two outstanding club cuts that stitch familiar elements in subtly unusual and hypnotic styles.
‘Denny Island’ parses and pitches his passions for late ‘90s pressures in a mesmerising riff on what might have happened in a smoky South London studio circa 2001, surely living up to El-B’s notion of D&B-into-UKG, replete with shiftiest woodblocks and midnight jazz notes. Chef’s kiss, lad! ‘Catching Smoke’ follows farther into a fantasy warehouse uchronia where tech-step and deep techno roll out with bulbous subs and dankest cyberdub atmosphere.