Pole - CD1: C/D?

I'd recommend checking out Nonplace Urban Field and other projects by Burnt Friedman. He has a similar approach to dub as Pole, though he's more versatile and often less serious. NUF's "Whimp" (from the Raum für Notizen minialbum) sounds like a blueprint for the Pole type of minimal dub, even though it came out 2 years before Pole's debut. Friedman's (now defunct) label Incoming! also released plenty of good experimental dub and downtempo stuff back in the 90s.

Besides the NUF and Incoming! records, this album by Friedman & co (released on Pole's label) is wonderful piece of quiet dub too. And my favourite dub album on ~scape is Kit Clayton's Nek Sanalet, it's just as good as Pole's best work. (Nek Sanalet is not as quiet as Pole though, IMO it's closer to Stay Down by 2 Lone Swordsmen.)

I was really in the mood to listen to CD1 while I did computer stuff. But then my computer spent a full 30 minutes updating various software and now I'm just ready to listen to Stick Men With Ray Guns while punching the monitor rhythmically.

Ahh okay here we go. Raum is playing and I'm under a calm blue ocean.