The Adjacent Ones: Beat Pharmacy

When I was sharing bands like Another Channel & Babe Roots, I gathered up a shit-stack of Ambient Dub, Dub techno, & Dub House. Some I liked (the more Dub influenced, the better), some I didn't (some was just too steeped in the techno repetitiveness or the Ambient calm). Most of it just ended up in Overflow. 

 

For the next few I'll share some of the ones I liked. Guess I'll start out with Beat Pharmacy. Ties in perfectly to start this section because Constant Pressure track 4 "Hot Spot Slash", The Singles Part 1 track 3, "Don’t Bodda Me", & Wikkid Times tracks 1 "Sunshine" feature vocals by the previously shared Paul St. Hilaire (segue)...

On Constant Pressure, Beat Pharmacy (Brendon Moeller) leans heavily into his Deep house roots. Tracks like "Hot Spot Splash", "Wata", & "Slow Down" bring out the Dub. "Velocity" seems to find the perfect balance between the two styles. 

 

Beat Pharmacy - Constant Pressure, Deep Space Media DS50164, 2006.
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Club Dread - words & vocals by Mikey Dread
Tangerine    
Caramel    
Hot Spot Splash - words & vocals by Paul St. Hilaire
Velocity    
Slow Down    
Pieces - words & vocals by Ursula Rucker
Worship    
Wata (Water) - vocals by Allan Hope
Rat Race    
Floating

 

 

 

Here's a collection of Beat Pharmacy singles up to this point (Part 1)... 

 

Beat Pharmacy - The Singles Part 1, Deep Space Media 259061921, 2007.

New Dawn (Minimal Dub)    
Here to Go (Club Dub)    
Don't Bodda Me with Paul St. Hilaire    
Floating (edit)    
Club Dread (Harmonic mix) with Mikey Dread
Club Dread (Sub-Harmonic mix)
Wata (Deep Dub)    
Wata (Acid Dub) with Mutabaruka    
Frozen (Dub)

 

 

 

This one is the Dub version remix of 2008s Wikkid Times. Here Moeller creates something quite unique, some heavy electronic downtempo Dub. You should all give a listen. I think you will enjoy... 

 

 

Beat Pharmacy - Wikkid Times (Versions). Deep Space Media DS50210V, 2009.

Sunshine Dub with Paul St. Hilaire
Hope & Frustration Dub
Assassination of the Mind Dub
Backwards Never Dub
Time Dub with Damon Aaron
Rooftops Dub with Coppa
Nuclear Race Dub
Piece of Mind Dub
Strangers Dub
Ghostship Dub

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ