Music News - Pitch Black new single The Future Knocking & final shows in NZ before heading back to the UK
03 March 2017 - 0 Comments
The release of the fourth single It's
The Future Knocking from Pitch
Black's latest album Filtered
Senses comes just before they play their final shows
in New Zealand before heading back to the UK.
After a slew of summer festivals that saw the electronic duo return home to
tour their 5th studio album Filtered Senses, the pair play Auckland on March 3rd
(joined by Observer plus DJ sets from young guns Digital Playground and the
veritable DJ Dubhead), Raglan on March 4th and at Sundaise Festival on
March 10th before returning to the UK.
The original version of It's The Future Knocking is a tasty
slice of dubwise electronica, and as usual for the duo, they have pulled in a
bevvy of remixers to add breadth and depth to their release. In this case, it's
a veritable dubgasm as not one, but three, dub producers step up to rinse the
bottom end.
First up is Anglo export slash Kiwi resident International Observer, who brings
his light playful touch to the original, while building on top of a deep
groove.
Following him is UK dub royalty in the form of Alpha Steppa. The son and nephew of
scene stalwarts Alpha and Omega, his UK steppers style mix wobbles you firmly
onto the dancefloor.
Finally remix dons Deep
Fried Dub add fire to the beats and finish up the EP in an old
school drum and bass style.
It has been nine years
since the award-winning duo (comprised of multimedia artist, Michael Hodgson and Salmonella Dub producer, Paddy
Free) released their last album, Rude Mechanicals in 2007, and 17
years since their ground-shifting debut, Futureproof. What
followed on from that 1999 debut album, would develop into an illustrious
career as Pitch
Black.
The pioneering pair have since been living in different cities, and working on
material of their own alongside their project as Pitch Black. Both
renowned individually as solo artists and producers, Free has
recently collaborated with Moana
& the Tribe and Nga
Tae, while Hodgson has
been producing and remixing under his solo guise, Misled Convoy. As
individuals, have very different approaches to music which can be summed up as:
Free, manic groove-merchant of the pair, wants to do it for the crowd, while Mike, the dark
dub-meister wants to do
it to the crowd.
Over the years, aside from rousing dance floor punters, generating rave
reviews, winning awards and gaining thousands of fans across the
world, they have allured favour among many DJs (both radio and club)
including John Peel (Radio
One/BBC), Nick
Luscombe (Xfm), Greg
Roberts (Dreadzone) and Pete
Lawrence (Big Chill). Their music has been used in fashion
shows, computer games, TV shows such as True
Blood and CSI plus many films, including the Oscar nominated Whale Rider.
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