Dolo DS

“The DDS 12 series follows that blink-n-miss Shinichi Atobe opener with this full curveball from Demdike Stare, finding the UK x US brukbeat axis twisting wildstyle thru the deadly first shots of a Demdike x Dolo Percussion hookup thats been years in the making, set to dominate dancefloors for the foreseeable.

Since 2019 Demdike Stare had been playing edits of Dolo Percussions bare-boned breaks in their DJ sets, eventually sharing them with Dolos Andrew Field-Pickering (Beautiful Swimmers, boss of Future Times) and fomenting a creative fusion that hits at the square root of their shared tastes for unruly, deadly rhythms. In a transatlantic back n forth – or what Kodwo Eshun termed a double refraction – they juggle the rudest aspects of UK hardcore, as derived from electro, breaks and garage-house – that would feed into Dolos pool of sound, and return to the UK via the likes of breakbeat wizard Karizma, who was a key touchstone for the whole late 90s broken beat movement key to Demdikes tastes.

Still following the thread? Its not that tricky – both US and UK operators favour breakbeat music more than anywhere else, and this devilish hook-up is the epitome of a conversation ongoing for generations now. At each parry, the three cuts here are exemplary of the way DJs, producers and dancers on both sides of the pond have pushed each other to new heights in a feedback loop designed to make the dance throw the maddest shapes.

DOLO DS 1 racks up a full clip of flintiest breakbeat hardcore, pivoting gasping samples inna dervish of ruffneck syncopation, ruggedly distinguished from the pitching, gritty drum machine chicanery of DS DOLO EDIT 1, and their super crafty sidestep into the offbeats, hingeing around ghost snares and practically spectral levels of percussive suss in DOLO DS 2 which basically sounds like a prime Autechre tumbling thru dub.

Its fair to hear recent Demdike mixtapes such as Physics as the testing ground for this steez, and if you love that one as much as we do, youll be snatching this one f a s t.”