Wardown III – Blu Mar Ten LP 19

Chris Marigold and Leo Wyndham’s Blu Mar Ten label – an offshoot of their music alias of the same name – shares the third addition to the Wardown albums series by the eponymous artist, real name Peter Rodgers (of Technimatic fame). Described from the outset as a musical diary of smeared memory, Rodgers’ drum & bass-focused Wardown records are accounts of dislocation – emotional, familial, local – that document and textualise the disjunction between the artist’s childhood in Luton and a musical career forged elsewhere. While the first record in was packed with personal nostalgia, Wardown III charts a continuing macroscopy in sound occurrent thereafter; this time around, Rodgers incorporates a cyborgish, anthropocenic monologue as the intro, and follows it with humanistic, synaptic drum & bass expansiveness in the form of ‘Perfect Your Memories’, ‘As They Fall’ and ‘Deteriation’.