A second installment that combines and cross-pollinates four elements: reggae sound system culture, tribal rhythms, dub techno and contemporary bass music! Our pick is "Twenty Plus" (sample1), where richly textured drums and percussion dance against a backdrop of softly levitating synth ambience — the vivid movement of that percussion is something you'll want to experience on a system. The willingness to ignore formats also hits hard, from "Dead Space" (sample2), which breaks the rhythm down into avant-garde abstraction, to "Ghost Notes (Watkins Group-Tempest Dub)" (sample3), an ambient dub piece where sub-bass rumbles through a subspace meticulously crafted from electronics. (Original Japanese text by Akie)