Artist: Various Artists
Title: 'Subsist Dub Vol.1'
Label: Subsist
'Subsist Dub Vol.1' is a ten track compilation out since 17 July as SUBSIST.286D, and it looks backwards rather than forwards. Every track on it has been out before, the oldest from 2012 and the newest from 2018, gathered up by label boss Fon into a set built entirely around the dub end of what the imprint has released.
Fon is Alfonso D. Civantos, born in Pontevedra in Galicia and based in Valencia since the late nineties, where he runs Subsist as its artistic director. Before the label he founded Komakino, a collective of artists and promoters that built much of the electronic music scene in the city alongside the established commercial clubs.
Subsist is now past 280 releases, with the more experimental Faith Disciplines running beside it. We have been here twice lately: Pont’s debut album 'Existence Gateway' landed four catalogue numbers before this one, and we world premiered Daher’s 'Surge' from his 'The Pulse Between Two Silences' album on the label.
The ten are drawn from Dialect, Triames, Dijuma, Moments of Totality, Voidloss, Dib, Corvum, Mike Nylons, Vakat and E110, who closes things out with '00946'. At nearly thirteen minutes it is comfortably the longest thing here.
