Panda Bear and Sonic Increase Announce Dub Model of Their Album, Share New Monitor “Whirlpool Dub”

Reset in Dub Due Out Digitally August 18 and On Vinyl December 8 by way of Domino

Jul 13, 2023

By Kat Ramkumar

Pictures by Ian Witchell

Panda Bear & Sonic Increase, the duo of Noah Lennox (aka Panda Bear of Animal Collective) and Peter Kember (aka Sonic Increase of Spacemen 3), have introduced a dub model of their 2022 LP, Reset, and shared a primary style of the file with a visualizer for “Whirlpool Dub.” Reset in Dub, which options reworkings of all 9 tracks by British dub producer Adrian Sherwood, is due out August 18 digitally and on vinyl December 8 by way of Domino. The pair’s North American tour kicks off tomorrow. Take heed to “Whirlpool Dub” beneath, adopted by the upcoming LP’s tracklist and canopy paintings in addition to upcoming tour dates.

Sherwood created his model of Reset with a crew that included such storied musicians as Doug Wimbish and Skip McDonald of The Sugarhill Gang and Grandmaster Flash and The Livid 5, in addition to Prisoner, Alex White, Horseman, Mark Bandola, “Essential” Tony, Ras Badthings, Ivan “Celloman” Hussey, and Mathew Smythe.

Of the LP, Lennox says in a press launch: “I like large empty areas; I like malls when there’s nobody there and the seashore within the wintertime—visually it’s easy and uncluttered and the noise of the surf drowns out all the pieces else, so I suppose it’s no shock I’ve at all times appreciated the sound of dub. And although some stuff bears its mark greater than others I’d wager you could find residues of it in all the pieces I’ve achieved. As a fan of Adrian’s I used to be excited when Pete steered we ask him to do some dubs of Reset tracks, however as they began to return via it was clear what he was engaged on was way more than a dub. Reset in Dub feels just like the factor filtered via a prism and it recontextualizes the OG.”

Sherwood provides: “This can be a full reset of Reset from myself and the On-U Sound crew. Being a fan of Animal Collective and Spacemen 3, when it was steered we do that collectively I liked the concept and relished the problem. We talked about influences, outdated data, mixing strategies and made a plan, which was to maintain all the weather of trippy enjoyable, however with added menace, groove, and an extremely lively combine for the ‘heads.’ Very joyful and happy with the consequence.”

Sonic Increase supplied this assertion about Reset in Dub in the identical press launch: “Sitting round one night at Noah’s consuming Portuguese barbecue rooster, ingesting a budget tasty Tejo wine and listening to outdated Tubby dubs bounce across the partitions, we began speaking over the concept of a Reset dub model of our 2022 LP. One of many main influences on Resetwas Jamaican rocksteady and it appeared like an attention-grabbing concept to discover taking it again to that type of tropical root.

“However who to dub it? That was the query. Who might do it justice and feed within the type of shimmering caverns that we dreamed of?

“I remembered about 15 years in the past taking part in a competition within the east of London and there not being a lot I cared to hold round and see, besides The Slits. I went and stood on the again close to the sound desk on the outdoors stage on which they have been performing and duly The Slits began up their present. Instantly, I might inform this was one thing a bit of completely different… Shuddering staccatos of frying echos and kill change edits lifting and clouding into the afternoon. I seemed again on the sound desk to see what was the supply of this wonderful rhythmscape. ‘That’s Adrian Sherwood,’ my pal mentioned. I made a psychological be aware to go give him my thanks afterwards.

“So, musing on that balmy Lisbon night time, when Noah mentioned ‘who might we ask,’ my recollections of that lengthy misplaced afternoon got here flooding again and I steered Adrian. Subsequent cease, the On-U Sound web site to whistle off a howdy and a handshake to Adrian.

“There was one different gig that stands out to me after a whole lot of gigs that I’ve seen. After I was 17, my buddy Simon from the native file retailer informed me he had freebies for Grandmaster Flash and the Livid 5. They have been using the primary spot with ‘The Message.’ I wasn’t offered initially to be trustworthy, however when my buddies identified I had nothing higher to do, I went. I don’t know what I anticipated, however what I received was my thoughts blown. The present was beautiful. The artistry, the music, the dancing and stage strikes. The entire thing opened up a complete new a part of my thoughts. I liked it and so started my introduction to the Sugar Hill Information label. So when Adrian’s listing of musicians for Reset in Dub got here via and I noticed the entire listing of superior contributors, we have been excited to see it together with Doug Wimbish and Skip McDonald—two members, amongst many different accolades, of the Sugar Hill Information home band, alumni of Grandmaster Flash and the Livid 5 and The Sugarhill Gang.

“We couldn’t have been happier. I personally don’t consider in bucket lists, but when I did, we simply stuffed it approach, approach up.

“So right here it’s.

“Panda Bear x Sonic Increase x Adrian Sherwood.”

Learn our interview with Panda Bear on Buoys.

Learn our evaluation of Panda Bear & Sonic Increase’s Reset.

Reset In Dub Tracklist:

1. Gettin’ to the Level Dub – Adrian Sherwood ‘Reset in Dub’ Model
2. Go On Dub – Adrian Sherwood ‘Reset in Dub’ Model
3. On a regular basis Dub – Adrian Sherwood ‘Reset in Dub’ Model
4. Fringe of the Edge Dub – Adrian Sherwood ‘Reset in Dub’ Model
5. In My Physique Dub – Adrian Sherwood ‘Reset in Dub’ Model
6. Whirlpool Dub – Adrian Sherwood ‘Reset in Dub’ Model
7. Hazard Dub – Adrian Sherwood ‘Reset in Dub’ Model
8. Residing within the After Dub – Adrian Sherwood ‘Reset in Dub’ Model
9. All the pieces’s Been Main To This Dub – Adrian Sherwood ‘Reset in Dub’ Model

Panda Bear & Sonic Increase Tour Dates:

July 14 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether ^
July 15 – Napa, CA @ Golden States
July 16 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theater ^
July 18 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Membership *
July 19 – Washington, DC @ 930 Membership *
July 21 – Queens, NY @ Knockdown Middle *
July 22 – Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Competition
July 28 – Brno, Czech Republic @ Pop Messe
Aug 6 – Katowice, Poland @ OFF Competition
Aug 13 – Castelbuono, Sicily, Italy @ Ypsigrock Competition
Aug 26 – Torremolinos, Spain @ Canela Get together
Aug 31-Sep 3 – Tollard Royal, UK @ Finish of the Street
Sep 8 – San Sebastian, Spain @ Boga Boga Festibala
Oct 7 – Leiria, Portugal @ Ágora
Oct 27 – Austin, TX @ Levitation
Nov 24 – Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain @ Keroxen

^ w/ Maral
* w/ Braxe + Falcon Help Beneath the Radar on Patreon.