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I started this track during a session with Mr Marc Danger before we moved on to something else and there was tornado's brewing outside lol.

I decided to finish it and kept the name tornado dub cause I thought it sounded cool lol.

Hope you enjoy! I got some new tunes for an EP that will be coming soon!

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Tornado Dub

Waters Uncharted

Music By: @nodusdefect
Mastered by: @Chefwamp
Art by: @Chefwamp

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Nodus Defect - Big Badman

Crafted over the course of two years, this album explores various styles and structures, focusing on off-kilter rhythms, haunting modalities, a strong use of organic, found-sound and ethereal vocal explorations to create an otherworldly vibe.

Conceptually, the album is about self/collective discovery, light found within darkness, numinous experience, secrets, and the process of inward/outward illumination.

Available as a Pay-What-You-Want Release on Bandcamp as well as all other online portals. Full 12-piece album art available exclusively at Bandcamp.
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The Self, silence into sound,
certain souls enter and dutifully drown
within the spaces somehow between.

Startling light amidst desolate night,
crystalline nadi lines stream secret
pearls for fellow people awakening.

Symphonies of stellar systems synthesized 
down to cure our conditioned symptoms,
dancing and serving, remembering why we’re here.

Come brave beloveds,
behold and subtly unfold
into A Path Untold…

By Andrew Brunt



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Consciousness Aqueduct

We're proud to follow up our “Third Light” album with a companion selection of remixes entitled “The Light Within”, with the remixers hailing from across the globe *and* the bass music spectrum. The resultant ten-track collection is playful, spiritual and sensory, with upbeat tempos and slithering effects woven deep into the rhythmic pulses and dark undercurrents of our original tracks.

Bookended by uptempo versions of “Daylight Wasting” from International Observer and Berlin bassheads qnp, “The Light Within” features contemporary bass cuts from Portland’s Bodie and Christchurch’s Akcept, downtempo grooves by Argentinian dubsalon and South Korean mcthfg, dancefloor dubs from Mexico’s Tor.Ma in Dub and Brisbanite SUBSET, as well as drum and bass by Wellingtonian Zuke and the legendary UK producer Adrian Sherwood.

Contemplative but cheerful, either way, as “A Doubtful Sound” states, ‘The rhythm IS gonna get ya!’

The Light Within

Pitch Black - Artificial Intolerance (Akcept Remix)(preview)

Pitch Black - One Ton Skank (Tor.Ma In Dub Remix)(preview)

Pitch Black - Third Light (Bodie Remix)(preview)

After touring and developing the songs for “Futureproof”, we were faced with a very different reality as we embarked on our second album, the as yet un-named “Electronomicon”. All but one of the tracks on “Futureproof” had been performed live before heading into the studio to record them and now we were making an album first, with live performances of the new material to follow.

We set up in an underground studio space in Newton, Auckland adjacent to a friends’ PA company and began to develop both songs and visuals from scratch.

We asked drummer Nick Gaffney, singer Caitlin Smith and space guitarist Andrew Penman to come and jam over some of the rough tracks. They were gracious to let us cut up and process their material and then use that to develop the tracks further. We had the use of a large-format 1980s Amek Angela mixing console, which we objectified for “her” silky highs and round bottom. Mike was in analog dub heaven!    

After much audio wrangling and data disasters, “Electronomicon” was released by Kog Transmissions on September 7th 2000 (entering the national charts at #45, and rising to #28) and we celebrated by touring with Shapeshifter, Salmonella Dub Soundsystem and DJ Automatic. 

We’ve always wanted to release the album on vinyl, so to mark its 20th anniversary, we dug out the original audio files and asked Angus McNaughton to re-master them. Hamish Macaulay has then adapted Fiona Jack’s original artwork and created a brand new collage for the gatefold, using photos taken at the time.

Pitch Black - Urbanoia (preview)

Created to take you on a little movement journey with spacious etheric instrumentals, earthy dub, and some tribal house. One to help loosen the hips and ground you to the earth 🌿 

Tracks in order:

Twinkling Stars - Eguana
Intro Dub - Sumac Dub
Kula Kula - Pushloop
The Exception - Kick Bong
Out Tal - Geju; Rapossa
TribeOriginal feat. Deya Dova - Kalya Scintilla
Yggdrasil - Commoner
Loma - Elfenberg
Calmness Mind - Brigado Crew
Yaje - Tlazohtla
Rain Dance - Clozee
The Secret Garden - Kick Bong

Artwork by Aashit Singh

Enraptured - Ecstatic Dance Mix

Rules of the Stratosphere

22/01/2021

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Noctilucent Clouds

Pitch Black are Michael Hodgson and Paddy Free. Having pumped their way through New Zealand’s electronic music scene since their inaugural performance at the annual Gathering New Year's eve festival in 1996, they have spent the subsequent years rousing dance floor punters, generating rave reviews, winning awards and gaining thousands of fans across the world. 

Hard to box into a single audio 'genre', Pitch Black is a combination of musical journeys. Their sound is distinctive; ranging from organic ambient beginnings and layered soundscapes to skanking keyboards, cutting acid riffs and thumping rhythmic grooves, with dub being the glue that holds their sound together. One critic has described them as like "Orbital meets King Tubby, or Rhythm and Sound in Technicolor". 

It is their live show that really makes Pitch Black stand out from the rest of the crowd, both sonically and visually. Their tracks take on an added dynamism and their performances reveal the dialectic behind the band - Paddy wants to do it for the crowd, Michael wants to do it to the crowd. Visually they are in another dimension thanks to Michael's cutting edge visuals.

They have toured the world relentlessly, playing everywhere from Amsterdam to Zagreb and the streets of Las Vegas to the Australian outback, supporting acts such as Coldcut, Skream, Easy Dub All Stars and System 7 along the way.

NZ Bookings: h (at) strikeagency.co.nz
RoW Bookings: info (at) dubmissionrecords.com

Pitch Black - Third Light (Bodie Remix)(preview)

Pitch Black (NZ)