WL//WH Premiere: this occasional society meets Samatha Dubs – “A Gift of Time” [Bricolage]

WL//WH Premiere this occasional society meets Samatha Dubs

WL//WH is pleased to welcome the beautiful cross-European electronic collaboration project between Danish music producer Samatha Dubs and the Southampton, UK-based artist this occasional society to the blog for a premiere of the title track of the 4-track EP, “A Gift of Time,” scheduled for release on September 11th, via Glasgow‘s DIY label Bricolage.

After connecting online through a mutual appreciation of each other’s music, and a shared preference for avoiding the noise and drama of social media, the pair began exchanging ideas with no fixed plan and no expectations beyond seeing where the process might lead.

Working entirely remotely, the pair developed an iterative process. With ‘Samatha Dubs’ sending sketches and source material to ‘this occasional society’, who would reshape them and introduce melodic elements before returning them for further creative iterating, editing, mixing and mastering. The resulting EP balances intricate rhythms, texture and experimentation with a melodic sensibility that runs throughout its four tracks.

Drawing on experimental soundscapes, hip-hop production and dub techniques, ambient music and classic instrumental electronica, “A Gift of Time” occupies a space between rhythmic exploration and melodic electronic composition.

Four tracks that, whilst short in nature, are rich in serenity and strange allure. Fragmented motifs and a glitchy undertow that submerge you into an almost nostalgic loop.

The EP’s tracks developed organically through the exchange of ideas between the two artists, resulting in music that feels simultaneously playful, unpredictable and deeply considered.

The title, meant to reflect a literal meeting of minds in our time, is also intended as a respectful nod back to classic dub collaborations from the past. The past informing the future through rhythm and sound.

The EP title track, “Gift of Time,” places ‘street sound’ field recordings, such as distant conversations, a baby’s laugh, and a car travelling over puddled streets, underneath a vivid, glassy, crisp sheet of bustling and fickle synthetic instrumentation churned by a heady rambling of polyrhythmic percussion patterns.

An intricate, immersive slow-paced overlap and interchange of a sinuous yet erratic and unsteady warm rhythmic flow of syncopated head-nodding hip-hop grooves with tactile, woody, knocking hand percussion, occasionally awash in a haze of dubby echoes, layered with a striking array of expressive, stirring atmospheric synth manipulations, and dazzling jazzy and glitchy inflexions laced with off-kilter FXs, takes the listener on a colorful, thought-provoking exploration through an Imaginarium of sight-inducing aural stimulations.

For a behind-the-scenes article about “A Gift of Time”, check out This Occasional Society’s in-depth write-up here.

this occasional society meets Samatha Dubs’ 4-track EP, “A Gift of Time”, is scheduled for release digitally on September 11, 2026, via the Bricolage Label Bandcamp.

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