Personality

Personality

Should your ears tire of producers transforming techno into horror movie soundtracks, consider Scuba's 2012 long-player Personality. Where his 2008 debut album, A Mutual Antipathy, put him in the front seat of the dubstep bandwagon and 2010’s Triangulation had him lacing the genre with ambient swells and techno trimmings, Personality finds the London-to-Berlin transplant digging up roots from the fertile soils of late-'80s and early-'90s dance music. The opening jam, “Ignition Key,” starts with the kind of R&B-infused house associated with oversized Keith Haring shirts and Dr. Seuss hats, replete with a cooing soul singer. The following “Underbelly” ushers in mechanized sound samples to give the tune a deliberately dated techno feel. But the party really gets started with the standout cut “The Hope”: an alchemy of shirtless big beats and muscled house.

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