Oracle Sound Volume 2 is a 12 of separate, distinct sides, like Andrew Weatherall’s landmark Mix Of Two Halves. At the start there’s the slow steady pulse of Regal Dub’s heart. Beneath flashes of fractured piano, it’s a sleepy skank, that slow dances to duelling bass-lines, one a melodic modular hum. Pagan Dub’s still slow, but boy does it kick. The bottom end even more booming. In the detail, the scratched sound of a güiro, and subtle splashes of echo. A moody melodica blowing a sweet serenade. With Mystery Dub a twisting, reshaping of sine waves shifts to the fore, and across this trio of tracks the sonics evolve, merging, mutating synthetic `90s roots, 2000s techno, and Jahtari / Disrupt’s dope “digital  laptop” dancehall madness. The Oracle Sound, to my ears at least, is pretty unique.

Nothing here is what you’d call dark, but the E.P.’s second side is far lighter, funkier, and “Balearic”. Glory Version, while heavily reggae-influenced, is more Movement 98, Massive Attack, Soul II Soul. Blood Brothers / Pressure Drop, and Weatherall’s aforementioned seminal shake of St. Etienne. Sections spinning backwards as if the DJ were readying to ease “a spliff from his lyrical lips.” Packing a wistful woodwind-like refrain, but lacking an obvious hook, it’s still a future classic in my book. Spacey SFX, appropriately, shower Rockers Sci-Fi’s sunset / sunrise suitable shards of horn-like harmonies and simple treated keys. A similar soothing tonic for fevered brows, Stronger Together boasts a loved-up lyric, cropped, chopped melodica chords, and brighter brass.

Oracle Sound Volume 2 is out now on Group Mind.