N Plus Infinity Times Two is the newly announced follow-up to Metanet's beloved N++. The latter had a killer soundtrack, especially for those among us who scour Hardwax and Boomkat daily for blink-and-you'll-miss-it vinyl pressings of austere techno. In a medium where many studios opt for chiptune or generic filmic string orchestras, it was a welcome deviation from the norm: N++ both looked and sounded like the future.
The soundtrack for N Plus Infinity Times Two will shift gears a tad. "Instead of Berlin techno," Metanet's Raigan Burns said during a presentation last week, "this time our main reference was UK Garage, and all the sub genres that it birthed, which [are] generally melodic, colorful, and mostly broken beat, rather than the claustrophobic, tension-laden 4/4 techno of N++".
UK garage is an antecedent to British dubstep, whose most famous example is probably Burial or Kode9 (the later US manifestation of dubstep, i.e. stuff that sounds like Skrillex, is a whole different beast). Countless other genres have sprouted from UK garage including grime, bassline house, and future gara...
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