DOT 4

Dialog's modern vision of dubwise electronic music continues to expand outwards as they serve up the fourth drop in their DOT series — a heavyweight record of two distinct halves.

On 'Chant', Dialog throw down a tough, dance-ready beat as the bedrock for a dynamic, ever-shifting tapestry of echo chamber impulses, mellow machine soul and fulsome sub-bass. It's a natural vessel for Benji's easygoing mantra — a call to use our voices and make ourselves heard.

'Silence' on the B side leans back into a meditative pulse that lands somewhere between pitched-down steppas and trip-hop, draped in refined and intricately detailed layers of tone and texture and featuring an especially soulful falsetto from Benji. It's the perfect back room foil to 'Chant's upfront pressure, taken further out by the instrumental version and a lush ambient 'Scape' mix of 'Silence' that allows the delicacy of the synth sound design to shine through.

On DOT 4, Dialog prove once again there are no limits to the scope of their sound as they channel deep-rooted dub principles into their own distinctive strain of heads-down nourishment for mind, body and soul.