For the past eight or so years, Filter Dread has basically done whatever he pleases, drawing on various sounds and scenes but never adhering to any rules or blueprints. Releases on the likes of Unknown To The Unknown, Sneaker Social Club, Visionist’s Codes imprint and Circadian Rhythms have seen him deconstruct and reassemble elements of grime, jungle, garage and more into something entirely his own.

Today, Filter Dread announces his new album, Trickster, and while that trend for sonic mutilation looks set to continue, this time he’s taken a different approach. Gone is the software that’s served him so well in the past and in its place, pure hardware. Explaining the approach in greater detail, he says: “For this album, I changed my setup from computer to hardware. Matching an old-school digital Roland synth from the early 1990s with a new school sampler, I wanted to juxtapose the creative methods and build up a dense, sampled soundscape of synth patterns and sonics inspired by grime, jungle and garage as the starting point.”

The full album is due for arrival on Coyote Records this Friday (July 3), but ahead of that you can whet your appetite below with the buzzsaw energy of “Stack Up”, a teeth-grinding production accelerated by glitchy drums and dizzying synth flourishes.