Paul St. Hilaire: w/ the Producers

"Sooner or later, everyone who loves dub techno becomes acquainted with the gossamer tenor of Paul St. Hilaire. His voice gets stretched and pulled across so many of the greatest records in the genre, from his early collabs with Basic Channel's Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald to his rousing appearance on Intrusion's late-period benchmark The Seduction of Silence in 2009."

"The artist's second album for Kynant, w/ the Producers, flips the formula and pairs his voice with some of the most inventive artists at the crossroads of electronic dance music and dub, from dubstep vet Mala to dancehall deconstructionist Gavsborg, of Equiknoxx, to Tunisian-French fusionist Azu Tiwaline. Though both members of Basic Channel are still releasing inspired music, they're pointedly absent from the credits; the only ambassador of dub techno's first wave is the great Japanese producer Shinichi Atobe, who feeds St. Hilaire's vocals into a ghostly gauntlet of vocoders on "Time to Wake Up.""

Paul St. Hilaire's voice anchors a new album that foregrounds collaboration with forward-thinking producers across dub, dubstep, dancehall, and experimental electronic scenes. The record follows a production-focused previous release and flips the formula by pairing St. Hilaire's tenor with artists such as Mala, Gavsborg of Equiknoxx, Azu Tiwaline, and Shinichi Atobe. The music sits between death disco and dub techno, trading surface polish for roiling subterranean textures, rusted beats, and processed vocals. Basic Channel figures are largely absent from the project, signaling a generational handoff while maintaining deep ties to dub-inflected electronic aesthetics.

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