Relatively new Toronto-based label, Spiritual World, has pressed its first vinyl release. The mysterious N1_Sound are responsible for the terrific 2-track 12, and cite Cabaret Voltaire’s Three Mantras as the root of the record’s inspiration. While it sounds nothing like the pioneering Sheffield outfit’s seminal offering – which contained epic 20-minute industrial drum and voodoo vocal workouts – it instead shares its desire to use modern machines, and methodologies, to tap into ancient, traditional trance-inducing music.

Mixed like a live jam, Mantra 1 starts with synth and effect washes that could have been borrowed from AtmosFear’s spaced-out Brit-funk. Simmering with tape hiss, white noise, and shimmering organ, wicked wah-wah guitar whips its undulating b-line. That bottom-end has a modal, melodic, Jah Wobble-like thing going on, which might make you think of Mr. Wardle’s Invaders Of The Heart. Both are reggae-fied, anti-rock ragas, suitable, equally, for either meditating or moving and grooving.

Mantra 2 is a slower, even dubbier drift. Its congas rattling around in a cavernous, Echoplex-ed Martin Hannett-esque post-punk soundscape. New Order-like melodica echoes and Bernard Sumner 6-string licks pulling the piece together. So Factory Records in feel, I was reminded, most, of A Certain Ratio’s dub alter ego, Sir Horatio.

THIS WAS A TOP DUBWISE VINYL TIP.