Stereo Freeze

Here's a great review from local DJ Bro90 (David Carroll) - thanks, fella! Also an interview I did in December on Radio BaseFM's Native Tongues show.

I'm popping up to Radio BFM's Freak The Sheep show tonight (Wed) for a chat, on at 10pm. Tune in!

Native Tongues: NZ Music Show (19.12.11) by Basefm 107.3 (New Zealand) on Mixcloud

DUB ASYLUM - Stereo Freeze [Loopy Fruit Recordings]

Review by David Carroll AKA Bro90, In The Pocket blog

Dub Asylum is the nom de produceur for Peter McLennan (of noted '90s NZ noisesters Hallelujah Picassos). Stereo Freeze gathers six tracks, old and new, which were recently threatened with permanent deletion thanks to a manky old hard drive. Freed of their former confines, they each stack up very nicely against Dub Asylum's past work.

Melodica features heavily on opener Jumping Jack Skank (amid spacious echoes and a bouncing reggae beat) and on the dark, heavily percussive Get It Together (sounding like the theme music for a Jamaican version of James Bond); and the instrumental EP features appearances from Chip Matthews (Opensouls, Anika Moa) and Olly Harris (WBC/Kolab). McLennan belies his Picassos roots with plenty of genres peeking out from between the sweet reggae grooves - Skatta lays down slow-motion Afrobeat grooves for a horn-heavy skank to drape itself over - but dub really is the glue holding this excellent release together.
4 stars from 5