Album of the Week: Scuba ‘Triangulation’

news | Jan 27th, 2011 | View Comments

Club music often breaks down into binaries — the stuff that rides a 4/4 beat inherited from house and techno on the one hand, and pretty much everything else on the other: breakbeats, drum & bass, dubstep, U.K. garage, all children of the tradition often termed the “hardcore continuum”, in reference to its relation to British breakbeat hardcore.

But Scuba — aka Paul Rose, a Londoner based for the past three years in Berlin — is looking for a third way, one that fuses both great strains of club music into something that’s not either/or, but both/and. He makes that quest explicit with the title of his second album, ‘Triangulation’.