The mid-nineties saw a very important event in contemporary electronic music with the arrival of Scorn. The English band Scorn showed, the world that dub music could now offer a very strong image of introspection and inner emotions. Dub was not the dancehall music it used to be. Since then, it has been given many names such as dub terror, illbient and dark hop to name a few. Each incarnation of dub music has its own unique sound.
Dark hop focuses more on the influence of hip-hop culture on current electronic music.
Dark hop is especially interested in instrumental music with minimal yet strong rhythmic structures. Dark hop known for its down tempo beats really succeeds to give despaired urban landscapes the appropriate soundtrack. We gave these artists the opportunity to express themselves in this ever-developing brand of music. Several artists are experimenting here for the first time with dark hop and are revealing tracks that we believe will be influential for dark hop as well as their original fields of music. With artists hailing from Canada, the United States of America, Belgium, Switzerland and the United Kingdom this compilation presents an international state of dark hop.