Artwork – Red EP

There’s a magic feeling you get when hearing a track born at the crossroads of genres — Artwork’s ‘Red EP’ is just that. First released in 2002, this proto-dubstep gem fuses the gritty ‘Grain’ techno the producer was creating with the shadowy pulse of the darker UK garage heard at the legendary FWD>>. Now, after years of prayers from crate-diggers, it’s having a repress — on cherry-red vinyl, no less. Alongside the brooding shuffler ‘Rank’, the release also unearths ‘Relic’, an unreleased cut that lives in the same wobbly world as the EP’s title track, with the addition of a ghostly choral layer. A proper piece of history.