Adrian Sherwood: "Semistoned"

If your favorite form of electronic music has a strong dub influence in it, you've got Adrian Sherwood to thank. With his On-U Sound Records in the 80's he and a plethora of handpicked luminaries were largely responsible for bringing dub into the house/techno world. Now it's 2012 and, strangely enough, he's peddling material that sounds like neither era, but rather somewhere between those two bookends: "Semistoned" is ripped fresh out of 1992, with its minimalist, filthy slur of a synthline and a vintage breakbeat from back before they decided "drum & bass" was less racist than "jungle".

The Recovery Time EP is due November 26 on On-U Sound.

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Inga Copeland: "BMW"

Fresh off the Ebony project with partner Dean Blunt, Inga Copeland rolls out an old school Massive Attack-reminiscent trip hop jam. Not sure whether this is intended to be released under the moniker Cplnd - whether it's intended for an official release at all, really - or whether she named her Soundcloud page that just to be obtuse. Frankly I'm kinda tired of the whole Hebrew-ized "let's remove the vowels to be cool" trend anyway so I'm going with Inga Copeland for the post title. If someone wants to get one last inch of mileage out of the no vowel thing, how about coming up with a name that could actually be multiple words depending on which vowels you plugged in between the consonants? Y'all are too obvious.