RUBENS
Puggies / Vertical Hold
HERB002
Herb Recordings 2007
02 Tracks. 07mins52secs
Format: 7″
RUBENS
Breaking Into Smile
HERB003
Herb Recordings 2007
04 Tracks. 25mins09secs
Format: 12″
Rubens is a Glasgow-based duo formed of Mark Flanagan and Gordon MacDermid. They released their debut album, Carnivalesque, earlier this year on Herb Recordings. As the album is just about to be re-released, the pair have extracted two tracks from it for a very limited seven-inch single, followed by an EP, Breaking Into Smile, also on Herb, featuring remixes from The Black Dog, Kirk Degiorgio and Dextro.
Puggies is a wonderfully ornate and melodic piece with elegant electronic swathes building around a central progressive melodic theme which is not without recalling the Spooky of Gargantuan, albeit in less clubby attires. Continue Reading »