Label: Not On Label – AB2 1201 Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM Country: US Released: 1991 Genre: Electronic Style: Dub, Techno, Bleep
David Duncan’s inexplicable lonely sole release as Ability II is a totemic warehouse wrecking ball that’s perhaps the best preserved of all the 90’s underground soundsystem anthems. That distant, far-gazing atmosphere, the boomeranging alien bleeps and seismic, rib-cage rattling, Boeing 747 bassline - truly perfect. Born out of the 90’s ‘Blues’ scene - illicit after-hours parties in Leeds and Sheffield - Pressure EP takes heavy inspiration from Jamaican soundsystem culture and the emergent club scene of the time, spending 6 months composting down, tweaking and layering bass samples to produce that unforgettable low-end rumble. It’s the sort of record humanity should preserve in a time capsule for future lifeforms to be made aware of one of our civilisation’s crowning accomplishments. (NM)
