Carrier

Carrier

The Fan Dance

Modern Love

For Modern Love’s fantasy jukebox series, Equiknoxx captain Gavsborg lends the sickest vox to Carrier’s obsessively modernist steppers production - a masterful twist of low-end futurism that’s a huge tip if yr into Rhythm & Sound, T++, Tricky, Burial, Photek. Preceded by a reputation as this decade’s leading innovator of dub techno x D&B hybrids, Carrier takes his debut Modern Love bow as an opportunity to fully lean into the dubwise fundamentals that link his variegated but tightly themed work as Carrier. And who better to grasp the brief than Kingston-via-Berlin producer and vocalist Gavsborg, whose run of productions for Equiknoxx and remixes for everyone from Busy Signal to Thom Yorke have more recently given way to an uber distinctive and screwed vocal style, here poised dread moody and dead sexy in the echo chamber. A-side ‘The Fan Dance’ is a pure masterclass in minimalist and hard hitting style & pattern, harnessing uncannily intimate vox in a super wide stereo field webbed with flint struck steppers hi-hats, speaker-massaging subs and illusory 3D spectres unveiled in drily skeletal form on a B-side dub that better reveals its whirring, under-the-hood mechanics recalling earliest Burial via latter T++. It’s one of Carrier’s definitive works of this current, formative phase, paving way for a debut album coming later this year on Modern Love and a premiere of his Rhythm Immortal project with Riyo Nemeth at Berlin Atonal ’25.