ecoform - preface

ecoform - &infin

theodor zox - attractor

theodor zox - attractor b

xoki - lion kiss

01 machineform - one.1

02 machineform - one.2

03 machineform - one.3

Xoki from the legendary now defunct netlabel kyoto_sound, brings three slices of ultra tight, dub/funk to the table. From the heavy but upbeat groove of wilderness dub, to the deep dark echos and reverberations of dub boulevard.
Techno, dubstep –  or just pure deep freshness for the headz.

01 xoki - wilderness dub

02 xoki - hidden dub

03 xoki - dub boulevard

Years in the making. Hieronymus' first full album is finally out!
One of the driving forces of the now defunct kyoto_digital label, the master of hypnotic, ocean-deep, jamaican flavored minimalism is back deeper and wetter then ever before.

With Chapters he treats us with nothing more then a true masterpiece of grooves and textures soaked in his trademark dub-mixing style.
With the opening track "Dubbing at eleven" we find a solid, funkefied Hieronymus dub riddim that sounds like the natural continuation of his kyoto_digital years. Deep chords washed in cavernous reverberations, with a steady half-time beat driving the funk. The only thing that hints at what the album might evolve into, is the dark hypnotic bass pattern, bouncing in a way that is definitely more upbeat then what came before it.

By the third track "Fever" Hieronymus finally lifts the carpet and shows just how deep, dirty and forward thinking his dubbified drops have become. Noisy, rattling and echoing hits and scrapes, on top of a tight faded organ tone playing a steady skank groove, all get squashed by an enormously rude bassline that twists and morphs its way through the entire track.
Yes this is dub music from another dimension.
And "Chapter 12" shows just how weird and twistet this new dimension can get. With a loose and super detailed drum track hovering on top of a dirty pompous bassdrop, sprinkled with feedback delayed noises, screaming and turnng inside-out. This is as far removed from his earlier zen-like dub meditations as it can get. Yet the sense of space and physicality is even more pronounced now then before.

Ending the hour long bumpy space journey is "Midnight dub" a pure rolling dub riddim that unifies and organizes all that went on before, into a unique solid new form. It sounds very Hieronymus-like, yet more experienced and mature then before. An end and a beginning of a new era of millenial dub exploratons from the master himself.

01 hieronymus - dubbing at-eleven

02 hieronymus - red iron dub

03 hieronymus - fever

04 hieronymus - friction dub 2008

09 hieronymus - natural dub

Picking up where the first machineform release left of - a natural continuation of the deep reduced drummmachine funk from the "one" EP.
Opening with the swinging, hypnotic, rolling beats and percussion of the first track, which gradually shifts into an uptempo jazzed up slice of space soul, this is somehow familiar territory, yet enigmatic and unclassifiable at the same time. And second track continues in the same vein, taking it even deeper with housey chords, fm synth squelches and female moans all neatly floating on top of a steaming drummachine groove from the far future.
Last track takes things into a slightly heavier and mystic realm. With tight rolling beats, super sharp edits and a magical synth progression that elevates the whole thing into a futurist space-time theme for an imaginative sci-fi romance.

01 machineform - two.1

01 hieronymus - opaque

Taken from the forthcoming album Perpetual Motion availble soon.

Xoki - The Dub Solvent

Xoki - Quintessence

Taken from the album Transform.
Marking 10 years of Rootplex with a lush and detailed Ecoform package of accelerating rhythms, low frequency mechanics and blue high-tech tones, fresh from tomorrow.

Transform

Ecoform - True Eyes

01 xoki - super-symmetry

Rootplex, a bleep of auditory art and design from a world spun by exponential complexity.

Specialising in deep sonic utopianism since 2008.

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