Eat Static take the whole desi and psydub/SF dub thing to an interplanetary level on "Back to Earth". The thing is though, I'm not sure if the music's creator is officially "desi", in the typical South Asian Indian lineage sense. It actually doesn't matter though. Eat Static work with Indian (and Middle Eastern) instrumentation and rhythms as good as most near eastern fusion acts I've heard. This isn't all electronic korma though.

1. Tuned Mass Damper
2. Pharaoh
3. Lo-ride Sloucher
4. Flippity Flippity
5. Epoch Calypso
6. Holy Stone
7. Pearl of Wisdom
8. Up, Periscope
9. Valley of the Moon
10. The Wreckage

You can definitely hear that Eat Static is borrowing from many years of submergence in the trance and psy-trance worlds, but it's really psychedelic dub that guides the journey. Don't try and label this music too tightly though, because you'll get some blatant experiments with jazz and Latin music as well.

Though founding member, and one-half of Eat Static, Joie Hinton, left the group in February of 2008, the remaining talent of Merv Pepler seems more than enough to deliver an exceptional sonic experience. A number of genres are represented here, and from chillout afficianados and "tribal-ised" psydub shaman to psy-trance conduits, "Back to Earth" offers some solid sounds. Definitely a recommended flight. Take it to wherever your favored destination waits.

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