THE BUG - Bodied (Send For The Hearse) (Official Audio)

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KEVIN MARTIN aka THE BUG signs to Relapse & announces Machine out October 4. A super limited, one-time pressing, full collection 5xLP boxset is also available for pre-order containing all 5 Machine EPs.
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Maverick UK producer Kevin Richard Martin (Zonal / Techno Animal / King Midas Sound) joins Relapse for the release of his devastating new double album Machine, his first solo instrumental record as THE BUG. Machine started life as a series of self-released "floor weapons" (to use Martin’s description), landing in installments between 2023 and 2024 on the Bandcamp page of Martin’s own PRESSURE label. And now - always his intention - Martin has collated a single, powerful, unified statement from those EPs. The album detonates apocalyptic dread-tech mutations of crushing intensity, fusing a unique new strain of futuristic dub with deadly deep electronics and killer bass riffs worthy of the heaviest metal. It is, writes Martin, “ice cold and dystopian.” It celebrates “atmospheric pressure, and the joy of full body assaults, via oversized sound systems in undersized club rooms.” Machine also represents the latest metamorphosis of the "Macro Dub Infection" philosophy Martin germinated with the groundbreaking series of compilations he began curating for Virgin Records as early as the mid 90’s. As THE BUG, Martin’s music is formed from an overwhelmingly explosive sub-bass pressure, as relentlessly in-the-red beat production amplifies mutant industrial sound design, fuzzed, expectant crackle, and bleak greyscale harmonics. Machine is no exception: no speaker exists big enough to withstand its weight. Machine represents a cohesive and narrative journey through dystopian wildernesses. Throughout, the production shakes with scoured textures, black hole gravity, and deceptively crafted nuance, as Martin’s singular mastery of ferocious and annihilated bass music holds the record together in a visceral and pummelling assault. Indeed, Martin describes the EP sequence from which the album was culled as “separate parts of the overall puzzle that becomes fully realised on this longform album.” Key moments “Buried” and “Bodied” live up to their names. The former is earthmoving in its sheer weight, opening with a riff-made-machine synthesis of corruscating tectonics over a heavystepping beat destined to destroy dancefloors. “Bodied” begins with an acid-corroded 4/4 kickdrum, around which noxious fumes sputter and billow, spitting pure poison that no human body could survive. It is industrial-strength doom-riff-dub, as slow and low as sonics can possibly go. As such singular music, few comparisons exist, but considering an instrumental SWANS in dub or Aphex Twin covered by Sunn O))) yields something close, though Machine turns up the crushing, pulverising intensity even further still. Having recently reissued The Brotherhood of the Bomb and Re-Entry by Martin’s Techno Animal project with Mr. J K Flesh (Godflesh’s Justin Broadrick), Relapse represents a perfect home for Machine. Techno Animal reformed as Zonal in 2019, and released their acclaimed album Wrecked in collaboration with Moor Mother, also through Relapse.

[@Furiousfiend4]

The Bug's music really suits dystopic technocratic nightmare we live in...

[@Redington931]

100% agree

[@lullbluetooth]

loved this track

[@PrimitiveInTheExtreme]

🔊💀🔊💀🔊💀🔊

[@NorthernLycanthrope]

Never knew the bug was on relapse! Sick!

[@doranbacigalupi1059]

It’s recent, was just announced today I think.

[@uncomfortablecrocs]

Ow lorddd

[@angelesoinsectos]

Nurse, nurse, nurse Doctor can't fix you, send fi di hearse Hearse, hearse, hearse Doctor can't fix you, send fi di hearse Black, black, black Funeral start, everybody inna black Black, black, black Poppa in a suit and mumma in a frock

[@AaronGarza-ju8wf]

🤘🏾🎃🤘🏾

[@anthonypinkos]

THIS IS SO RAD.

[@soothe90]

loved this track so much when it first dropped layered some dystopian lyrics and footage see at mine if interested