TALKING SHOP Paleman

“A lot of small changes and tweaks can add up to the biggest change”

Back in the early ’10s, the dark, cerebral sound of early dubstep compelled a generation of forward-thinking producers to reconstruct club music in innovative forms.

Calum Lee was at the heart of this scene, producing warped, bass-heavy rollers that thrived in the murky no-man’s-land between house, dubstep and techno. After launching his own label, PLMN, in 2016, Lee’s output shifted further towards the experimental, and he began working on a series of self-titled EPs that have culminated in the hallucinatory sonics of this year’s , and two EPs under a new alias, Fresnel Lens.