Filter Dread Mix For The Astral Plane

The majority of producers attempting to recreate UK ‘nuum sounds either look to reinvent or recreate classics from a past era. Few though, have the acumen or the audacity to deconstruct, pick apart and piece back together the individual components of jungle, grime, two step, etc. It’s the quality that makes Rabit and Visionist so intriguing and it’s what is about to bring Birmingham-based producer Filter Dread to a far more widespread audience. Having already released on Lost Codes, Egyptian Avenue and UK Trends, it was announced earlier his week that his next EP will be released on Tom Kerridge’s RAMP Recordings, the venerable outlet that has been the home of Zomby, Flying Lotus, Mickey Pearce, SBTRKT and other contemporary titans. Inspired by “short sampling space, limited save functions and other restrictions,” the EP will be titled MIDI Space and will be released on June 23.

Filter Dread grew up attending raves in the fields surrounding his home town of Cambridge and has been fascinated with the eclectic fringes of soundystem culture ever since. Attending raves led to an interest in jungle and drum & bass and later an indulgent approach to recording software, specifically ways of analogue sounds sans hardware. We were lucky enough to grab Filter Dread for a guest mix at this frenzied time of year and the result is breakbeat-led, deconstructed madness. Ostensibly based in jungle, the mix almost entirely lacks propulsion, placing the listener in a disorienting, hallucinogenic world where heavily layered breakbeats are equally likely to dissolve into beatific xylophone melodies as they are a quivering squarewave synth. The dub-y qualities his cassette tape only Space Loops EP are readily apparent, but the mix, and the previews of his upcoming work, offer a more physical result than that floating, astronomical EP. Hit the jump to check out the full track list and be sure to grab MIDI Space on June 23.

Tilt mode – Hex Key
Glot – Purge
Filter Dread – Dreamscape 2
Arctic – Bubba Ray
Filter Dread – Polonium (Ecsxtick Mix)
Filter Dread – Ancient Powers
Filter Dread – Water Level
Filter Dread – 808 Beat Gone Wrong
Loop Interlude
Tilt Mode – Xtcpressure (Tilts Ruffy Glasgow Edit)
Filter Dread – ???
Filter Dread – End Point
Filter Dread – Block Patch
Arctic – Welcome To The Kingdom
Filter Dread – Tape Pack
Missingno – 124th
Filter Dread and Luke Benjamin- Goddess
Tilt Mode – Mosside
Tam – Gracenaught
Visionist – More Pain
Epoch – To The Dirt ( Filter Dread Remix)
Sepia – Glisten
Sully – Blue ( Logos Vapour Dub )