Pre-Order: Nebraska Presents: Dubl Drat * Alter Alter Ego Ep [New 12" Vinyl]

Somewhere between the after-hours haze and the first flicker of sunrise, Nebraska re-emerges, this time with a twist in the signal. Long respected for his deep-cut sensibilities and dancefloor intuition, Ali Gibbs returns to Delusions of Grandeur not just as Nebraska, but with a handover to his new alias: Dubl Drat. 'The Alter Alter Ego' EP plays like a transmission from both sides of his creative psyche - one rooted in warm, groove-led house and disco mutations, the other drifting deeper into dubbed-out, heady abstraction.The A-side opens with 'Alter Alter Ego' in it's Nebraska OG Mix form - a crunchy, funked-up mid-tempo burner. Chopped Rhodes solos flicker in and out of the mix while a rolling bassline locks into a low-slung groove, equal parts party-starter and late-night dancefloor hypnosis.Next, 'The Teckel Track' slides the tempo down into a proper slo-mo four-on-the-floor bumpy groove. Fat stabs punch through layers of glitchy FX while a melodic bassline snakes underneath, forming a hazy, infectious earworm tailor-made for those early-night mood-setting sessions.Closing the A-side, 'Olive (Dubl Drat Dub)' signals a shift. Here, Gibbs leans fully into his Dubl Drat persona, dissolving structure into a blissed-out dub excursion. Chopped breaks scatter across the stereo fi (more...)