Review: As the second part of a two-pronged issue from the lauded Echospace camp, "Fading Lights" delivers everything you would want to hear from Rod Modell and Stephen Hitchell as they work expressive delay and feedback into the most immersive dub techno money can buy. The icy swathes of gaseous mist that course between the grumbling chords keeps things at a cool constant, with no need for the track to rise above a gentle simmer to impart its magic. "Magenta" is even more distant in its disposition, keeping the static hiss in front of the mix and everything else pulsing away behind with the kind of subtlety that few can pull off quite so magnificently
Review: Rod Modell and Stephen Hitchell's cv313 project is one of the long-standing fixtures of the Echospace imprint, representing something of a definitive guide to the dub techno sound once it ran on from the Basic Channel days. "Under Starlit Sky" has everything you could wish for from the pair, as distant and hazy pads undulate through cloying reverbs and the beats chug away with a regal patience, utterly blissful in its overall effect. The "live" take is a more simmering offering that pares the swathes of pads down and lets a murmuring rhythmic construction take the mantle - without moving far from the realms of moody, immersive dub techno of course.
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