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01. Deadbeat - Waking Dub
02. Deadbeat - A New Sense of Purpose
03. Deadbeat - Midnight in the Garden
04. Deadbeat - A Thousand Shining Stars
05. Deadbeat - Revelations in Dust
06. Deadbeat - A Last Swim
ARTIST
TITLE
Waking Life
FORMAT
2LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
BLKRTZ 019LP BLKRTZ 019LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/26/2019

"Expertly-made dub techno for the dance floor. As Deadbeat, Scott Monteith's last album, Wax Poetic For This Our Great Resolve (BLKRTZ 018CD/LP, 2018) was both a lament and a message of hope for a world in turmoil. On that record, the Canadian artist embedded speech in an often-instrumental form. On Waking Life, his latest LP, he's less poetic, reflecting not on the world around him but on a festival he played last year: Waking Life in Portugal. In the process, he's made some of his most straightforward dub techno in recent memory. Waking Life has the same rich sound design that's characterized so much of Monteith's music. Lush synths glimmer in the dark expanse of the aptly titled "A New Sense Of Purpose." The gently percolating lead on "Waking Dub" evokes sunlight reflecting off a river. The 14-minute closer, "A Last Swim," is immaculate dub techno. Waking Life feels made for the dance floor and flows like a night out, peaking with "A Last Swim." The album's midsection is heady and nocturnal, with a tech house-inflected groove on "Midnight In The Garden" and a bleepy lead on "A Thousand Shining Stars" that wriggles and shimmies endlessly. Most of Waking Life has this feeling of perpetual motion, as if the whole record poured out of Monteith in a single studio session. Waking Life may be Monteith's most satisfying work since his career masterpiece, Drawn & Quartered (BLKRTZ 001CD/LP, 2011). Like that album, it strips down the Deadbeat sound to its core elements -- house, techno, and dub -- the results of which are undeniable. But where Drawn & Quartered was almost intimidating in its heft, Waking Life seems intent to serve the kind of uplifting and communal experience that spawned it." --Resident Advisor