Luke Slater presents L.B. Dub Corp album

Why did you decide to record an album under this alias? I wanted to carry on L.B. Dub Corp in some way after the Ostgut Ton 12-inch [Take It Down (In Dub)], which people liked. The obvious yet challenging choice was an album on Ostgut. How did your approach to this album differ from your most recent LP, which was produced as Planetary Assault Systems? When I'm writing Planetary or performing P.A.S., that's where I'm at. P.A.S. kind of dictates its own rules. With L.B., it was easier to pinpoint what I didn't want in the music. On that basis I started to write. There's so much sonic choice these days—I like limiting that choice. It's knowing what you don't want to do, rather than what you do want. In some ways, I went back to the roots and my roots. For me, every track needs a story, and I think that can be overlooked these days in dance music. You collaborated with dub poet Benjamin Zephaniah and Function. How did these come about? Poetry's been something I dabbled in over the years and I get drawn to more alternative poets I suppose. You could say that John Cooper Clarke and indeed Benjamin Zephaniah are the most inspiring poets for me. Benjamin is a poet to be heard and I'm really pleased with the outcome of "I Have A Dream" whilst "Take a Ride" uses his voice in a bit more of a traditional dub groove sense. Moving back from the L.B. Dub territory into P.A.S. land via a gateway last track and having Function very kindly involved in that track worked well in that scenario and gave it reason.