A Rocket In Dub

Stefan Schwander maps out 90 percent of every production in advance of recording under the A Rocket in Dub alias, reserving the remaining 10 percent for spontaneous ideas that arise during sessions. The resulting tracks emphasize measured tempos, dub-inflected rhythms and textures, and interlocking layers that remain faithful to a spare overall approach. Two 12-inch releases had appeared by the close of 2002—Rocket No. 1 and Rocket No. 3—each containing two tracks sequenced chronologically by creation date. He is known more widely as producer Antonelli Electr. and co-operates the Italic label in Cologne, Germany, which has issued every one of his recordings.