Bleep

The years 2019 through 2021 will be remembered for one paradigm-shifting virus; but the ripples of influence are to be determined by the feelings of loss, uncertainty and turbulence of every individual involved. Across troves of remarkably forward-thinking electronic music, producer, composer and DJ Lee Gamble has proven time and time again that he is one of the foremost sonic tinkerers of our strange age, a visionary scribe writing out the future of music before it’s even happened. Flush Real Pharynx 2019-2021 reads like a book of aphorisms for the next human epoch.

A compendium of tracks gathered from three of his Hyperdub EPs, Gamble’s works are in fierce dialogue with our ambiguous situation; rhythms bounce in and out of gridlock, arps flit from easy comprehension and every blissful drone is underpinned by a benumbed menace. It figures that his sonic uniqueness comes from a deliberate genre pile-up, an approach that crafts trance wreckages like ‘Glue’, warped dub-hop sound designs like ‘You Left A Space’ and shattered, sputtering Neo-New-Age-isms on the likes of ‘Hyperpassive’.

Flush Real Pharynx 2019-2021 feels like a prophetic collection — a future classic in which every mangled breakbeat and mashed synth squall contains multitudes to be explored for years to come.