Dislocated Folklore by Jay Glass Dubs

DAT#24 was originally released on 27 January 2017 by The Tapeworm as TTW#92 in a cassette-only edition of 200 copies.

Here is the original press release:

“Dislocated Folklore”, recorded especially for The Tapeworm, consists of two 30 minute long tracks that incorporate mainly stretched-out 0‘03” sample recordings of 90s Ragga 12” single intros combined with and recordings of a Quran recitation from a Turkish TV channel and Jay Glass Dubs’ signature hybrid hardware/software set-up.

The title refers to (and therefore is an intended pun of) the misinterpretation of “otherism” “orientalism”, “exoticism”, etc… – phrases often used over the past 100 years to describe a tendency of metropolitan musicologists to intellectualise forms of expression that have a very strong relation to roots, religion and ethics.


Dimitris Papadatos, under his nom de plume Jay Glass Dubs, embarks on an avant-garde exploration of dub music, interrogating the genre's ontological boundaries. His work operates within the dialectic of tradition and innovation, where the foundational rhythms and textures of dub are subverted and recontextualized through minimalist and ambient modalities. In this sonic praxis, Papadatos engages in a form of negative dialectics, wherein the familiar structures of dub are deconstructed, allowing for the emergence of new auditory forms. His compositions, rich in atmospheric density, challenge the listener to transcend conventional auditory perception, inviting a critical engagement with the possibilities of music as both art and critique.

The Digital Archive of Tapeworm is a repository for audio from out of print cassettes on The Tapeworm.