73 minutes, 50 seconds

Kub
Entre 2 Mondes

"Between two worlds"? Which ones? Drum and bass and industrial? Ambient and electronica? Seems like a lot of genres that used to be distinct are now melting into one another, and, as Martha Stewart would say, that's a good thing.

I don't know much about Kub. According to the bio on the label's Web site, the artist was some sort of DJ in France, and this is his debut album. It was released in 2003, and I don't think he's released anything since--at least not that I could find. Oh, well. While we wait for Kub to come out of hibernation again, we can at least enjoy this disc. It's got crisp, clean beats and cool, angular synth blips and bleeps. It risks sounding a little antiseptic, but it moves well. It's even kind of funky in parts, in that jumpy D&B way.

It's another solid release from the French label Axess Code, who also give us Christopher Kah and Remain Silent, two other practitioners of abstract electronica/IDM. Est-ce que il y en a encore?

Also today:

73:50 Steve Roach, Labyrinth
73:49 In Strict Confidence, Mistrust the Angels
73:49 Skoyz, Hologram
73:48 Controlled Fusion, Incubation Time