SubDocta - Iced Up VIP

WAKAAN is one of those labels where you never quite know what you’re getting genre-wise, but the quality control is high enough that it doesn’t matter. SubDocta’s Iced Up VIP takes whatever the original version of Iced Up was and does something weirder and more interesting with it. The production here is genuinely strange — there are moments where it sounds like it’s going to resolve into something familiar and then veers off somewhere else entirely. Experimental bass as a genre description is almost uselessly broad, but in this case it fits: this is bass music that’s still working out what it wants to be, and that’s the appeal. If you need every track to land cleanly in a defined genre box, this will annoy you. If you like feeling slightly lost in good music, this is exactly what you’re looking for. High ceiling on this one. Give it a proper listen with headphones before you decide what you think.