Luke Lund - Hopium (2020)

Finland's Luke Lund is one of the most inspiring modern dub aesthetes. Using odd number time signatures, warped bottom end, and proper experimental murk, HOPIUM creates fiendishly innovative electronic groove and atmosphere. Existing in a far away land tucked north of techno, dub, and noise where all blend and connect, HOPIUM is a wise encoding of fear, frustration, anxiety, and false hope. Luke Lund's sound is unquestionable sincerity of exploration, equally inspired by Finnish electronic masters such as Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisäinen, as well the legendary Justin K Broadrick - as such, absolutely at home on our label.

"We are on a knife edge. Modernized digital hardcore for the great new era of loss. Invest in extinction with mutoid abuse of Sherwoodian dub techniques. Angular lo tech bass riddims for hiding heads in holes. Pathological odd-meter clangor for human resource liquidation. Industrial-grade brutalist grime for cost-effective planetary murder-suicide. Faster than expected. Worse than predicted. Greater than anticipated. Shut your eyes — all will be right in the end."