Love and Hate in Dub

by Sean CooperJustin Broadrick's electronic and acoustic proclivities intersected once before, on the 1991 remix EP Slavestate. Where those mixes were wrought with an almost industrial-techno stiffness, Love and Hate In Dub (which sources Godflesh's 1996 trio release, Songs of Love and Hate) reflects Broadrick's more recent occupations: heavy ambient dub and nasty, paint-peeling drum'n'bass. The result is a more lithe, slithery redivision of Godflesh's metallic murk, some tracks echoing with deep, bassy drones, others pummeling away with odd rhythmic timbres and quasi-jungular patterns.