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Bug, The

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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.

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Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. Annihilated(Force of Gravity)
2. Shafted(Laws of Attraction/Repulsion)
3. Released(The Need to Escape)
4. Battered(Curse of Addiction)
5. Sickness(Slowly dying)
6. Hunted(On the run)
7. Vertical(Never see you again)
8. Brutalized(Headwrecked)
9. Floored(Point of impact)
10. Limbo(Lust and Paralysis)
11. Drop(Machine Sex)
12. Hypnotised(F-cked up)

Disc: 2
1. Inhuman(Let machines do the talking)
2. Skullcrusher(Relentless Catastrophic Implosion)
3. Possessed(The Light of Shaka)
4. Departed(Left the body behind)
5. Buried(Your life is short)
6. Gutted(Human Filth)
7. Bodied(Send for the hearse)
8. Fucka(Tongue as a weapon)
9. Exit(Wasteman)

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