Release context
New Zealand producer Oscar Allison has used Grouch and Grouch in Dub to move freely between progressive psytrance, dub, bass music and slower psychedelic electronics. The catalogue is deliberately porous, with collaborations and alternate versions often linking the dancefloor material to the more spacious Grouch in Dub side.
Distance belongs to the creative partnership between Grouch and Gaudi, which developed from individual tracks into the full Future Relic album. These releases are important because they show Grouch moving beyond a narrowly defined progressive-psytrance identity into a shared dub and psychedelic-electronic language.