Dx2ov – Tonegues
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Dx2ov – Tonegues
Holdrons Arcade
135A Rye Lane
Unit 11 Holdrons Arcade
London SE15 4ST
United Kingdom
Label: Blank Mind – BLNK028
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: Jun 22, 2026
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Dub, Experimental, Leftfield, IDM, Raggeton
Dx2ov arrives on Blank Mind with Tonegues — his second vinyl LP following Interzona on Gost Zvuk in 2024, and a record that takes its title from a wordplay on speaking in tongues and sonic tonalities, echoing the process and dialogue that went into creating it. Drawn from a vast archive of material spanning 2019 to 2025 and arranged in collaboration with label owner Sam Purcell before being completed with the long-distance assistance of Toupaz, the album is best understood through the lens of a beat-tape — playful, varied and bursting with oddball ideas, punctuated with intangible vocal samples. Much like Wolfgang Matuschek's beguiling hand-drawn artwork, Tonegues is a glimpse into an inner world, a portal to somewhere uncanny and strange borne through imagination.
Light dub flourishes mix with footwork and IDM hybrids on 2018, while the loose rhythmic march of Fon32 evokes the dusty beatdown styles of early 2000s Detroit downtempo. LP highlight Trout lays down a gleefully strange bed for Jacob Dwyer's surrealist storytelling — interactions with dogs, dripping old houses and a perennial wish for the phone to ring, delivered with a heavy dub poetry slant. No Strings and Demetch push into footwork-adjacent bedroom hyper-pop and gabber kick territory before the maximalist album closer continues in the tradition of wonky mid-2010s UK bass music. Confounding, unorthodox and impossible to pin down. Edition of 200, mastered by Miles Whittaker.
