Joker / 2000F & J Kamata– Digidesign / You Don't Know What Love Is

Label: Hyperdub – HDB018
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM
Country: UK
Released: Feb 20, 2009
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dubstep
Condition: Near Mint

A split twelve-inch from Hyperdub that pairs two entirely distinct moods across its two sides — Joker's purple-tinged, video-game-inflected dubstep on the A and the R&B-soaked earworm of 2000F and J Kamata on the flip. The kind of release that demonstrates just how wide the Hyperdub aesthetic could stretch at the height of the late-2000s bass music moment.

Digidesign — later featured on the Hyperdub 5 compilation — is quintessential Joker: vivid, colourful and sitting at the intersection of dubstep and something harder to name, the production carrying the bright, synth-heavy palette that made him one of the most immediately identifiable voices to emerge from the Bristol scene. 2000F and J Kamata's You Don't Know What Love Is on the flip opens up an R&B can of earworms entirely its own — a warmly infectious counterpoint to the A-side's harder electronic edge, the two sides together making a compelling argument for a label that always trusted its instincts over genre convention.

A. Joker – Digidesign
AA. 2000F & J Kamata – You Don't Know What Love Is