Scuba's DJ-Kicks compilation reviewed by Time Out
Wednesday 09 November 2011
Read the full article here: An exquisite set of deep beats comes courtesy of the Hotflush honcho.
By Bruce Tantum
It’s tempting to assume that a mix squeezing 32 tracks in little more than an hour might come off as a bit of a mess, or perhaps a you-scratch-my-back shout-out to every producer that the set’s creator has ever met. But in the hands of Paul Rose, the head honcho of the influential Hotflush label best known through his Scuba production monitor, the aural onslaught makes total sense. Rose is one of the main men of the postdubstep (or underground-urban, or whatever we’re calling it right now) sound, an elusive genre that takes in everything from near-ambient musings and doomsday bass music to juke-inspired material and something approaching straight-up house and techno. There’s obviously a lot of ground to cover, but each cut serves as a dot in the mix’s pointillist panorama. It doesn’t hurt that Rose is a great DJ who knows this music inside and out—which makes sense, since the veteran helped to create this world...