Mysterious New York-based artist Myakkah returns to Tokyo’s Diskotopia with an EP of what can broadly be described as dub techno.The release partners 2 dance floor and 2 more experimental numbers. All the tracks ride tribal rhythms – some more obvious than others – and possess clanking, metallic percussion that suggests an industrial influence. 

The abstract Within is sort of mediative. Its womb-like bottom-end boom surrounding tumbling, time-stretched chimes and shredded shouts and hollers. Its 808 treated to sharp bursts of delay. Chambers is a similarly detailed but diffuse dubwise drift. Adding wood blocks, slapped bass notes, ethereal vocals and treated, textures, buzzing – possible guitar – arcs. Both must surely be partly Dub Syndicate / On-U Sound inspired. 

Coded is an urgent, machined march, constructed from looped electronics and chants, and swimming in echoed synths. The rapidly skanking Living rattles along like a detuned drum circle ritual. Hypnotic, body-moving, trance-inducing, generating a groundation / griot groove like a missing link between Basic Channel’s groundbreaking Phylyps Track II and the output of Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga imprint. Disembodied Rastas vying with just a smidgen of acidic squelching. 

Myakahh’s Living Within Coded Chambers can be ordered directly from Diskotopia.