The artist formerly known as 'Joy Orbison' dropped HYPH MNGO on Hotflush back in 2009 and totally recalibrated dubstep into a nostalgic and emotional mess. I remember hearing it, sailing through London in the passenger seat of a white Ford transit van on a wet tuesday afternoon, the sonic textures were like nothing else, warm and analogue, yet laced with the coldness of a digitally flexing vocal that twisted out a sample into an ghostly instrument with a medical precision; HYPH MNGO sounded like a tropical beach but was equally at home clipping tinnily out of a car's speakers, stuck in traffic and drizzle.
Now trading under Joy-O, new track 'Wade In' seems to have ripped
up the template he laid down two years ago. There are echoes of
detroit house main man Omar S, in how stripped back it is, with
that classic 4/4 kick drum being teased out with off kilter cow
bells and a menacingly dystopian one-note synth. It magnificently
and beautifully all drops out, incredible stuff.
