Joy Orbison turned dubstep on its ear with his debut single, “Hyph Mngo,” swapping its lumbering menace for boundless euphoria. The tune inaugurated a new era in UK bass, and while it was widely imitated, Joy O (a.k.a. London’s Peter O’Grady, born in 1986) never repeated himself. Instead, he became known for flipping the script: dropping a spoken-word sample of junglist Source Direct over gauzy deep house on 2012’s “Ellipsis” and probing minimal techno’s psychedelic limits on 2018’s 81B. (Then, there are his anthemic collabs with Overmono, like “Bromley” and “Blind Date.”) Press-shy and content to release on underground labels like The Trilogy Tapes and Hessle Audio, he didn’t release his debut LP, still slipping vol. 1, until 2021. That album’s moody deep house was once again something new for Joy O—further proof that the celebrated producer has no intention to rest on his laurels.