Album: Scientist, Scientist Launches Dubstep into Outer Space (Techtonic)

Hopeton Brown, aka Scientist, is one of the more skilled dub remixers, the immodest claimant of achievements such as Scientist Dubs Culture into a Parallel Universe.

Sadly, his latest claim is less sustainable, this collection of remixed dubstep tracks from the Tectonic catalogue fails to achieve lift-off. It's a problem of source material: there's a difference between imposing a new soundscape on played instruments and vocals, and attempting the same on the already chilly sonic terrain of dubstep, with its machine beats and shivering synths, where the spatial characteristics so crucial to dub are already well calculated. Adding an extra delay or two to Shackleton's "Hackney Marshes" , or re-shuffling the rhythm elements of Kode 9's "Abeng", still leaves them substantially the same, and without the shock of transformation, there seems little point to the exercise.

DOWNLOAD THIS Abeng Dub; City Cycle Dub; Ill Kontent Dub