Hiss And Buzz

The juggernaut of electronic music is digesting style and substance, consistently evolving. While many struggle for notoriety, innovation is the father of influence and ultimately all else will be discarded. As the handgun was to the early west, digital production has become "the great equalizer" to a community of laptop jockeys with minds racing in hopes of attaining the few moments of visceral joy that come from the channeling of musical statements both inventive and relevant.

What we have here is a partnership between two distinguished artists who defy the pitfalls of commonality, transcending convention to emerge as diplomats of the game, emissaries from the hazy twilight of creative consciousness: Jack Dangers, whose revered seminal work as Meat Beat Manifesto and electronic alchemy on his own Tino Corp. label form much of the bedrock to which we cling during this time of fragmented gentrification and Kenneth James Gibson, a.k.a. dubLoner, Premature Wig, Eight Frozen Modules and a host of other pseudonyms used to identify the music of an individual whose captivating and prolific work has quickly established him as a one-of-a-kind force of reckoning. This is the world of Hiss and Buzz.

Both Dangers and Gibson share high regard for the dub aesthetic so pertinent to the development of electronic music as we know it. Leveraging expansive grooves against elaborate to obsessively recondite workmanship, the duo return an impulsively attractive product, an offhanded musical snapshot reading like a mural suggesting Eno and Cage in the same breathless sentence as Tubby and Perry. Like an resplendent door hinged on the booming dance of riddim, "dubLoner meets Jack Dangers" beckons expressively to what lies beyond.