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Sketch on Glass
Electronic · 2009 · 4 tracks · 14m

Sketch on Glass

A foundational text of post-dubstep. Domestic sounds repurposed into skeletal, shuffling rhythms that feel like a rainy night in South London.

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It sounds like someone made a beat out of everything in their kitchen while it was raining outside.

A restless, urban solitude that finds warmth in the crackle of domestic sounds.

Sketch on Glass · vs · Mount Kimbie
Surreal Abstract+1.4σ

The writing leans notably further into surreal abstract than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 4 Tracks · 14m
01
Sketch on Glass
4:20
02
Serged
3:31
03
Fifty Mile View
3:28
04
At Least
3:39
Moments Worth Waiting For
The way the percussion in the title track sounds like a box of matches being shaken rhythmically against a wooden table.
The sudden, jarring shift into a more aggressive, distorted bass pulse halfway through Serged.
The ghostly, pitch-shifted vocal loop that anchors Fifty Mile View, feeling like a memory that won't quite resolve.
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