Based US West Coast, Nanda's Yoda Knowledge track has featured prominently in the download charts. For the uninitiated, the artist provides uplifting tech-dubstep.

Real name Nicholas Grabenstein, Nanda attempts to bend the audio frequencies by weaving plentiful abstract tones through and around Cry of Ages' range of dubby beats and expressions.

In fact, Cry of Ages moves a little further towards the Glitch Hop spectrum, the beat programming often loose and skeletal, allowing Grabenstein to get experimental by weaving together multiple samples and synth patches.

Whether this is wholly successful is questionable, many tracks here appear a little lost in themselves and prone to directionless dawdling. The track Amazing Grace, with its sampled lonesome whilstling probably works best by creating an unusual and somewhat eerie carpet of programmed sounds and atmospheres, but one gets the impression that dubstep enthusiasts are most likely to take well-produced dubstep tub thumpers such as The Inconceivables and Dub Stomp and ditch the rest.

Credit to Grabenstein, however, for trying to move beyond the norm by utilising various world influences and injecting copious amounts of gymnastic programming; although it doesn't always pay-off, for those heavily into the dubstep genre Cry of Ages at the very least offers a different angle.