Beat Pharmacy New Dawn

• Words: Derek Grey
• Label: Deep Space
• XLR8R Rating: /10

Dub is spouting from New York's sidewalks like camouflaged wildflowers, their beauty noticeable only after you're already engulfed. Beat Pharmacy's debut on Fran¡ois Kevorkian's Deep Space label is circa '94 Rockers Hi-Fi mixed by Basic Channel's Maurizio. Call it subtledub, and brilliant. Going different directions, David Last's trippy "Badlands" (Agriculture) disobeys all dub's rules (like the music used to) and wrests African Head Charge beats from a fidgety computer.