I’ve lately gone down the dub­step rab­bit­hole, lis­ten­ing to var­i­ous mixes and tracks and albums. It’s a fas­ci­nat­ing genre that I’m jump­ing into much too late in the game, admit­tedly. How­ever, the sound has mor­phed so much through the years since it’s appear­ance, that it has a lot of inge­nu­ity left in it’s pro­duc­ers. A group that is recently emerg­ing is the drum n bass heroes Kryp­tic Minds. Met­al­headz fans will rec­og­nize their name. Some­thing that set them apart from most d n b of that era was their ten­dency to break out into sheer gor­geous­ness, pro­duc­ing tracks that focused more on melody than on crush­ing amen breaks. The dub­step guru Loe­fah recently found him­self check­ing out what they’ve been up to and it turns out Kryp­tic Minds are pro­duc­ing some of the deep­est, most cav­ernous, most spa­cious dub­step around. Harken­ing back to the early days and work­ing in a half­step style, they are poised to release some beau­ti­ful elec­tronic music this year. Black­down Sound­boy sat down with them for a long and fas­ci­nat­ing inter­view. To go along with it, they gave him an exclu­sive mix that has been wear­ing out my speak­ers this week. With a 12″ out now on Loefah’s new label Swamp 81, and the full length One of Us released immi­nently, they are poised to take the scene by storm. For now, sam­ple the exclu­sive mix they put together of their tunes for an hour of ele­gant and crush­ing elec­tron­ics.
Kryp­tic Minds Black­down Stu­dio Mix (mp3 — Sendspace)