Bokeh Versions presents more outernational transmissions from the fringes of dub music.
Moving from light to dark across 45 minutes of dub electronics, New Teeth for an Old Country references Jay's native Greece - steeped in glacial classicism it's refined and dark as hell. This is dub strictly in the abstract - snatches of horns, a distant scream of organ - Jay Glass Dubs comes across like some bedroom-producer Bauhaus sacrificed to the On U Sound mixing desk.
BKV 007 follows an under-the-radar run of 'Compound Dub' dubplates and the hottest dancehall mixtape of the year (Glacial Dancehall) on Bokeh. Jay recently completed a trilogy of tapes on Hyle Tapes, THRHNDRDSVNTNN and Seagrave. Forthcoming releases on The Tapeworm and anòmia foreshadow his debut 12" on Bokeh Versions next year.
Jay Glass Dubs is an exercise of style by artist Dimitris Papadatos focusing on a counter-factual historical approach of dub music, stripped down to its basic drum/bass/vox/effects form.
100 copies, strictly limited c45 and digital.
#64 in Boomkat's albums of the year.
"the six cassettes Bokeh Versions completed in 2016 assembled the whispered shreds of a new psychedelic stage in postmodern dub music and compiled them into an outright movement"
Tape Label of the Year in the Quiteus
"In an age where every other musician's press release contains the word "dub" somewhere in it, Bokeh manages to spin the genre in ways that are original but true-to-form, vibrant but with a touch of morbidity, localized but out of this world" Labels of the Year 2016 in Tiny Mix Tapes