Cargo Records

HATER / BIKER WALK

A stark and clinically defined humming electronic lament, owing as much to the aquatic sub-pulse of today's grime producers as to the dark futurism of 'travelogue' era human league, with a deep and booming dub-paced retro-synth arrangement over which an un-named female identifies herself as the hater of the title in a looming ballad of loathing dripping lines like "see you later, i wouldn't want to see you soon". Being played by selectors as diverse as xfm's jon kennedy and nick luscombe, to hyperdub label owner kode 9 on his rinse fm show, neatly reflecting the track's intriguingly genre-less motility. Flipside 'biker walk' is like an elizabethan folk song written by laptop, but you'll just have to buy this to find out quite what that means.