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Airdrop II

by Low End Activist

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Airdrop 01 (Jim's Dubs) 05:33
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Airdrop 02 (Bert's Trap) 05:40
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Airdrop 03 (Colin's Golf) 05:30
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Airdrop 04 (Merv's Lazy Eye) 04:57
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Airdrop 05 (Dion's Amnesia) 05:07
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Airdrop 06 (Smithy's Porsche) 03:32
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Airdrop 07 (Brillo's Teeth) 03:26 video
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Airdrop 08 (Baldy's Bins) 04:33
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Airdrop 09 (Dougy's Ramp) 03:53
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Airdrop 10 (Earl's Skank) 06:31
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Continuing his refraction of the rave continuum into pointedly dislocated, delicately bruising sound system meditations, Low End Activist returns to Peak Oil with a second instalment in his Airdrop series. This time around, he channels the ghosts of foundational tech step and the quantum leaps of late-90s D&B to provide the inspirational fuel for his skeletal, astral constructions. A strong stylistic thread continues to weave through the LEA output from his earlier self-released EPs and Sneaker Social Club albums, where haunted atmospherics, blown out subs and snatches of breaks dart around each other in empty dancehalls, but the finer point of the sound design and synthesis makes very specific references to landmark moments in hardcore's evolution.

By weaving his own autobiography into the music, the Activist maintains a fundamental theme of his work to date. 'Colin's Golf', 'Smithy's Porsche,' 'Merv's Lazy Eye' and 'Brillo's Teeth' are all personal codes harking back to the formative Oxford rave scene. With the framework in place, he uses textures, timbres and studio tricks from scene-leading pioneers and local heroes of the era as ingredients in thoroughly modernist concoctions. None of the reference points are deployed as literal callbacks — they're waymarkers for the creative process and faint triggers bedded deep into Airdrop II's strange formations. Fleeting sonics might trigger latent memories for those who were there. For everyone else, Airdrop II is another step further along rave's eternally unspooling odyssey, guided by decades of precedents on a path into the future.

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released November 14, 2025

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Low End Activist Bristol, UK

Cold cuts of mutant grime and dubby UK rave pressure

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