So, essentially, the record sales are good and better than a lot of people operating in obscure electronic dub!
His songs are revelatory to fans of electronic, dub, and dance sounds, and notable for dizzying keyboard work by his former collaborator Rizan Sa'id.
The label will follow up with an instrumental album on April 23 by the drummer Mark Guiliana and his group Beat Music, which mixes elements of rock, electronic, dub and jazz.
Highlights of this year's festival, curated by Bristol electronic dub duo Massive Attack, will range from the esoteric - a rare British gig by the Japanese electronica outfit Yellow Magic Orchestra - to the showstopping - a performance by the iconic disco diva and one-time Warhol muse Grace Jones.
Set to an electronic dub track with a beat keeps pushing the animation forward, the video starts off with a zoomed out shot of a snowy, colorful sky.
"It had lots of weird stuff hip-hop, dancehall, early electronic mustuff hip-hopae andancehallikearlyt," helectronic
Corsa praises Mediocre, calling it a "deftly crafted alt-pop record", but notes that "it's the electronic embellishments, dub effects and jazz trimmings in the form of loose piano lines, subtle tempo changes and vocal improvisations that make it unique".
Yet in a time when electronic music, rap, dub and R&B are reshifting in so many interesting ways, overtly banning genres just seems passe and grimly orthodox at best.
Their trump card is to raise the Bahian guitar to a new level, combining a typically Brazilian musical manifestation to elements of dub, contemporary electronic, rock and other genres, as observed in Jah Jah Revolta.
John Brown's Body, a reggae banded founded in Ithaca, N.Y., plays old-fashioned reggae, sometimes updated with dub-inspired electronic effects; the results are less ham-fisted than you might think, which isn't saying much.
