L.B. Dub Corp: Saturn to Home (Dekmantel)
I have no evidence to support the theory that the "L.B." in L.B. Dub Corp stands for Limp Bizkit. Or LeVar Burton who played Geordi in Star Trek. Or the common abbreviation for pound weights. Personally, I like to think it stands for "lovely blog".
Luke Slater is here to frost our ventricles and arson our arteries with a selection of techno tunes that run equally cold and hot. Cold because of the motorik machines pumping out the rhythms, and hot because of the soul that runs throughout.
Your Love is a highlight, a speeding discoball of urgent synths. The sharp house pacing of You Got Me adds drama to its tense strings. The latter features Robert Owens, the Fingers Inc star keen to sing about his "overdose of luuurve". You should see a doctor, mate. I'm sure there are pills for that.
Indeed, on this English tribute to American house music, the vocalists are the stars. Owens features alongside Paul St Hilaire and Miss Kittin. "Forget everything you've been told," says a sampled voice on the title track, and yes we're listening intently, but Slater's confident production demands to be remembered.
I've got it! L.B. stands for Lattice Boltzmann, a method in computational fluid dynamics for simulating fluids. Yeah. That totally sounds like Luke Slater's thing. Glad we got that sorted out.
This is part of a series, currently live-blogging on 3, 4 & 5 January 2025. Read the posts so far.
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