L.D. – Traumatic Times / Woodblock
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L.D. – Traumatic Times / Woodblock
Holdrons Arcade
135A Rye Lane
Unit 11 Holdrons Arcade
London SE15 4ST
United Kingdom
Label: Hyperdub – HDB019
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM
Country: UK
Released: Mar 23, 2009
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dubstep
Condition: Near Mint
L.D. — Leon Smart, South London dubstep producer and one of the scene's most distinctly individual voices — delivers his finest moment on Kode9's Hyperdub with Traumatic Times / Woodblock. A 2009 twelve-inch that longtime listeners and underground critics consistently regard as one of the high watermarks of the late-2000s dubstep ecosystem, the record carries the raw, emotionally direct energy that made LD's productions so immediately arresting and so enduringly essential.
Traumatic Times opens the A-side with the kind of slow, heavy pressure that dubstep at its most uncompromising achieves when everything is in the right place — dark, physical and carrying an emotional weight that the title makes no attempt to obscure. Woodblock carries the flip with its own distinct character, the textural detail and rhythmic precision that defined LD's approach fully intact. Two sides of South London dubstep from a producer who never sounded like anyone else. An essential piece of Hyperdub and dubstep history.
A. Traumatic Times
AA. Woodblock
