Xen EP by Disunite

“The world goes into pieces and into fragments and all we can do is put fragments together and get a new whole out of it, but it always stays as fragments. That’s how we, at this time in history, see the world.”
— Irmin Schmidt

Almost exactly 3 years since Disunite’s debut Foreign Voices, they return with a 5 track EP to soundtrack the isolation with hypnotic dub echoes and hallucinatory sound design. Hard beats and hard pads are the order of merit, where playful grooves are mangled into a distorted contortion. Resonances from genre stalwarts such as Autechre and The Future Sound of London meet head to head with the most futuristic take yet on the dub-ridden experimental electronic niche.

“Through the gloom he’ll see my shadow,
Hear my voice upon the breeze.”
— William Blake