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Number 25 on The 250 Best Electronic Albums of the 21st Century21st CenturyDubstepTier S

Memories of the Future

Kode9 & The Spaceape

2006 · dubstep · grime

Hyperdub · HYPCD001

undergroundchart-reachCommercial reach 2 out of 5, where 1 is deep underground and 5 is top-40.

25 on The 250 Best Electronic Albums of the 21st Century

Sub-bass dread and The Spaceape's spoken-word menace define Memories of the Future from the inside. Kode9 builds Hyperdub's early aesthetic around that vocal-instrumental tension, making urban paranoia inseparable from the productions carrying it. 'Nine Samurai' is the one that traveled and 'Sine' is the one that explains the album.

3 on The 10 Best Dubstep Albums

Hyperdub's founding statement: Goodman's dread science under Stephen Samuel Gordon's basso poetry, opening with a Prince cover that tells you exactly what the project intends. Gordon died in 2014 and the genre never found another voice remotely like it.

Tracklist

  1. 1Glass4:30
  2. 2Victims3:51
  3. 3Backward4:43
  4. 4Nine1:54
  5. 5Curious4:58
  6. 6Portal4:25
  7. 7Addiction3:40
  8. 8Sine5:21
  9. 9Correction3:15
  10. 10Kingstown4:40
  11. 11Nine Samurai3:40
  12. 12Bodies2:26
  13. 13Lime1:55
  14. 14Quantum3:18