Jamie McCue, who is behind the classic Silent Season label, steps out here with a new label called Moon Garden. Hidden Sequence inaugurate it with a limited edition 7″ that sets a great standard from the off. ‘Studio A’ is a liquid dub with delicate hi-hats sprinkled over loose, tumbling drums and rich sub-bass. It’s vast in sauce and impossible not to sink into. ‘Mystical Dub’ on the B-side is an even more paired back ambient dub with a barely-there rhythm slowly unfolding beneath conscious mutterings and distant, muted melodies. It’s late-night weed music of the highest order.

Audiopile Review: Silent Season sub-label Moon Garden strikes quickly after their opening volley from Japanese producer Silentwave, a deep listening ambient album issued on cassette this past summer. With the smaller sized formats as Moon Garden’s preference thus far, their second offering is a 7” single from the German duo Hidden Sequence, a name which might be a familiar name to those invested in contemporary dub techno. Through their trio of releases issued on the top tier dub techno imprint Lempuyang, Hidden Sequence are among a newer crowd of dub techno enthusiasts like Frenk Dublin and SND & RTN who are fully immersed into the smokier side of the genre. Here, the duo remove the techno aspect while maintaining their dank density, Mystical Dub taking us on a slight detour towards the style of dub that had previously been perfected by Rhythm & Sound. With a heavy emphasis on atmosphere, the single’s two tracks embellish their roots-informed samples of faded horns and trippy vocals snippets with an orb-y wall of riddems and smoke-blessed FX, arriving somewhere close to the warm but wall-shaking releases that we’ve been enamoured with from Froid Dub or Mystica Tribe, the latter of whom are fittingly up next on the Moon Garden release schedule!