This first bit is an experiment. My wife calls this an “audio read” – something for folks too busy for text, but looking for interesting things to listen to: Miles J. Paralysis Meets Persian – read by Dr. Rob. Feedback in the comments please. The usual words are below:

Crying Outcast‘s Miles J. Paralysis has got his hands on Persian’s 2022 Mysticisms Dub Plate. This won’t see a full release until New Years Eve, but the label have made 3 tracks available with the pre-order. 

Boasting big digi-dub bass-lines and breakneck breakbeats, the originals, Survival Dub and There Is No Love, paid homage to ragga, hardcore, and jungle, – rave from the same sound system informed sonic school as Smith & Mighty. Celebrating a music that optimistically, positively, reflected the UK’s multi-cultural mix. The walls that E, and dancing all night together, momentarily at least, demolished. Perhaps that’s why the powers that be passed the Criminal Justice Bill. The unity scared them.

The Bradford-based Mr. Paralysis brings the tracks back to Yorkshire and pushes both in a more bleep techno direction. Slowing their B-lines, stripping them down, making them heavier, deeper, dubbier. Survival and its reverb-ed Rastas now has weird, warped jazzy chords, and its drums swapped for samples from every B-Boy and B-girls’ favourite, Apache. Flashing old timers like me back to Dee Patten’s Who’s The Badman? The soulful Old Testament gospel of There Is No Love is no longer a song, only spectral echoes, spun around spooky synths. Here the break is removed all together, making for something calmer, aimed more at the chillout room. Less Warp Records, less Ability II’s Pressure. More Richard H. Kirk’s Sandoz In Dub. Paralysis also turns the stoned Depth Charge-like Zatochi’s Troubles into a hypnotic, skunk funked march. An eerie ringing, filtered key motif and loops of creepy cackled laughter colouring its slow trodding skank.  

Persian Meets Miles J. Paralysis can be ordered directly from Mysticisms.