Depending on how you look at it, Scuba’s career looks like one long identity crisis or a series of artistic revelations from a man with many different layers and complex moods. Either way, we diehard Paul Rose stans do not care (although we do tend to believe it’s the latter case). We stuck with PR when he transitioned from crafting headsy, techno-inflected dubstep to making massive club destroyers with theatrical white noise breakdowns that inspire ravers to clutch their friends and weep about how much they love each other. We gobbled up his fling with retro house and thumbed our noses at the fairweather fans who suddenly felt “too cool” for Paul. And now, our bodies are ready for the next phase of Rose’s artistic development, which was revealed today: four cuts of heads-down techno devoid of the elements that turned the unloyal hipsters away, like hysterical vocals and ebullient chords—the closing track on this record, “Distance,” is downright minimal. The EP, Phenix 2, hits shelves June 30 via the Berlin producer’s epic Hotflush label.
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