, and the producer who steps up to the plate is Scuba, the working name of Hotflush Records boss Paul Rose. The song and the accompanying unofficial video provide a perfect illustration of the future of dance music, as well as its roots. Scuba leaves little of the original intact, save for a few slices of Karin Dreijer's vocals, and instead lays down a slow, druggy-feeling backing that nods almost as much to techno as it does to dubstep. It's this convergence of various electronic genres that Hotflush Records have pioneered and advanced, through the likes of Pangaea, Mount Kimbie and, perhaps most successfully, Joy Orbison. These artisits, along with others such as Floating Points and Joker, often share few real similarities other than a genre-transcending excellence that has left critics searching for embarrassing names with which to label the movement.
Hotfush hail from that traditional home of trend-busting music, Bristol, and the influence of trip-hop is clear in the music they represent. This link is made explicit in the video, which splices together Fever Ray's original with the Chris Cunningham directed promo for Portishead's Only You (one of my favourite videos to one of my favourite songs). The aquatic theme of both videos fits well with Scuba's remix, with it's rippling synth shots and bubble sound effects, worthy of a man with such a name.
Hotflush represent the future of dance music, and in particular dubstep, a genre fast becoming an unwitting parody of itself, if it hasn't already.
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