Presage : "Outer Perimeter"

(Future Primitive Sound, 1998)

Before anybody jumps to the wrong conclusion about Mr. Dibbs, let's get one thing straight. Cincinnati's leading turntablist–devil child is not on some Eminem dynamite-your-dick-and-get-in-Rolling-Stone. Mr. Dibbs is a whiteboy freakshow for sure, but he's an under-the-radar Howard Hughes type freak who, with the help of his two kids and 23-member 1200 Hobos crew, plots world domination from his River City bunker. In the words of Dibbs's fellow Hobo, Staten Islandite DJ Signify, he's "a crazy genius hick."
As part of the DJ-producer trio Presage, Dibbs is in full social-paranoia mode, scratching and juggling to the rhythms of media terrorism and Illuminati occultism. When it's not sounding like a bigger, darker knockoff of Negativland, the group's debut Outer Perimeter finds the three conspiracy theorists running Jello Biafra diatribes about martial law through Sabbath-metal, and tweaking violin squeals and tuba hiccups over stuttering, apocalyptic beats.

Josh Kun (« The Village Voice »)

Cover artwork : Doze Green

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