federsen

Voodoo Gourds

**Hand-painted shell. Edition of 100. C90** 'Voodoo Gourds' presents 90 minutes of blissful, gauzy dub techno mutations by San Francisco's Chris Kelly aka Federsen. The first side comprises material from his early releases dubbed to a dusty flux of reggaefied house rhythms and chords evoking "late nights thick with a palpable sense of after hours anticipation, fragments of conversation and smokes on street corners carried along at the strong and steady pace of the Ocean Beach rip currents." The second side is entirely exclusive to this tape, and for our 2p, is much more interesting; the beats roll out with a stepping flex reminding at once of Smith & Mighty or Monolake, while the atmosphere becomes more menacing, mysterious, locked in by the dynamic tape hiss. Berlin and Bristol dub types: your time.