Bleep

Somewhere between North Finland and its border with Lapland, home to vast space, iridescent landscapes, and ice comes Arttu Snellman aka Lump. As a teenager in the late eighties Arttu was struck, like any budding techie confined by many months of cold and darkness, by the new electronic sounds coming out of the US and UK (perhaps also the motivators for Finnish brethren Vladislav Delay, the pioneering S?hk? label, and a strong death metal scene). Profound love for acid house and emerging bleep techno forced the acquisition of turntables, relocation to Helsinki, and a DJ career interrupted by mandatory Finnish military service. While in school during the mid nineties Arttu started to amass obscure synthesizers and eventually built up a small studio. Ambient soundscapes and lo-fi grooves started to emerge. At home he listened to almost everything, for other people he recalls playing ?bouncy techno? while Djing. In 2002 the first Lump EP emerged on Berlin?s (then Cologne?s) Sub Static label. Next year London?s S?d Electronic crew took notice and the first Lump live shows surfaced. Gaining momentum, Lump released a second EP on Sub Static sub-label Karloff. Philadelphia native turned Berliner Jay Haze then approached Lump for his net label Textone. 2 net releases later, Jay, taken both by Lump?s music and his jubilant and humble personality, commissioned a Lump EP for his hibernating Future Dub imprint. During the long hot summer of 2005 sweating at the machines of his London bedroom studio, the development of that EP swelled into Lump?s first full length album..Somehow from these modest bedroom technical means came a shimmering album of highest production value. Lump Dub?s countless layers move over and under creating abyssal depth tied together only by the uniting electronic dub theme.