Various Artists - V.A. Vol.1 (Dot & Matthew Oh, Nicolas Barnes, Modernism, Ian Oskadev)

Label: Outlaw – Out-014
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, EP, Hand Stamped
Country: UK
Released: Feb 14, 2025
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dub Techno, House

Italian imprint Outlaw return with a hand-stamped extended player, delivering a pumping, dub techno-infused vinyl only compilation packing contributions from Dot & Matthew Oh, Nicolas Barnes, Modernism, and Ian Oskadev.

Since 2015 the hand stamped white label imprint based out of the Umbria region of Italy has been offering up raw, reduced and refined material leaning towards dub influence house and techno with Matthew Oh at the helms.

Here the story continues with a new various artists package, label boss Matthew Oh joins forces with Dot for ‘Horizon’, a seven and half minute excursion through bouncy bass stabs, expansive textural elements and crisp drums. Rawax, Vuo and Greyscale artist Nicolas Barnes steps up next with ‘Frames’, bringing a weight low-end groove to the forefront alongside murky dub stabs, shuffled percussion and cinematic pads.

Modernism opens the flip-side with ‘Metal Covered’, pairing organic percussion and weight subs with billowing atmospherics and swirling echoes before Ian Oskadev’s ‘Clarity Of Thoughts’ concludes the EP, laying down hypnotic, ever evolving pads with intricately intertwined stab sequences and heavily swung drums.

A1. Dot & Matthew Oh – Horizon
A2. Nicolas Barnes – Frames
B1. Modernism – Metal Covered
B2. Ian Oskadev – Clarity of Thoughts