Make no mistakes, in the world of dubstep, this track will be remembered alongside “Anti War Dub,” “Purple City” and “Midnight Request Line” as another track that helped move the underground genre ever closer to the mass audience that it inevitably will succumb to.

Though, it must be said, this is not selling out or watering down to sell records or to gain popularity. Joy Orbison, aka Peter O’Grady, claims to have written this track in a spate of boredom. Clearly there was no extensive studio time or laboring of love doted upon this creation. However, love will most certainly be doted upon it by those lucky enough within hearing distance.

Musically, the track fuses a dubstep half step rhythm with subtle hints of techno through it’s leaning synths and steadily introduced female vocals. When I first heard this track I expected just another run of the mill dubstep track. How wrong was I?  I now believe that this could be the crossover. It has been featured in the NME’s ‘Top Ten Tracks’ and has been heavily plugged on BBC 1Xtra and Pitchfork Media. This is not just another track. This may have a silly name, but this is “Hyph Mngo.”  ~ Andy Hill

MP3: Joy Orbison – Hyph Mngo

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