Paul Dickow, co-founder of the Community Library label, is based in Portland, Oregon. Dickow’s self-aware eye for the nontraditional is evident through his sound, which is near impossible to pin down, though could be considered digi-dub, with heavy reverb, golden hour ambiance, and smoked out space. Such an uncategorizable sound may have at first stood the way of record deals, but perhaps producing a large library of tracks that could only be Strategy was his strategy all along.