In case you’re confused, no, Deadbeat didn’t just release another new album less than a year after his last one. But his BLKRTZ imprint has finally gotten around to reissuing the producer’s debut album as a double LP. Remastered by dub-techno don Pole, Primorida is rooted in loosely layered modular synths and about as immersive as the Basic Channel records it strives to emulate.
And to think Deadbeat was performing outside a Montreal café at the first Mutek festival around this time…