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Laurel Halo's 'Quarantine' is one of the most compelling debut albums we've heard this year. Ever since she revealed the hyper-fused kinetics of 2010's 'King Felix' EP, there's been a certain weight of expectation on this unique artist, which has evidently been fulfilled with the likes of her technofied 'Hour Logic' and 'Spring' EPs, plus the criminally overlooked ambient holo-spaces of the 'Antenna' cassette for NNA Tapes. Yet, if you still haven't been convinced of her skills, a newly established connection with the esteemed Hyperdub and the utter brilliance of this album - from the soun… Read more
EPROM
Regis Chillbin (Machinedrum Mix)
Rwina Records
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Cat. Number: RWINALP001S
West Coast beatsmith Eprom returns with this bass-heavy slice that’s bound to have Brainfeeder headz knocking wrists with the Night Slugs brigade before you can say ‘sidechain’. It’s good stuff and comes with all the kind of sirens ‘n 808 kicks you’d want from a low-slung groover, but the real meat’s in Machinedrum’s dangerously f*cked rave throwback remix. Typically for the man ‘drum, it’s unclassifiable save for saying that it’s dance music – but those stabs, THOSE STABS. Take it to the warehouse, lads.
*Senking returns to Raster with another double-headed set of slowed-down, rugged and dark transmissions.* Senking's 2nd EP follow-up to 2010's heavyweight 'Pong' LP sees him add chiming harmonies and even vocals to his abyssal bass contours. With gargantuan A-side 'The Dance Hall Walk' he lasers warped and glooming features into a hulking iceberg sculpture, perching a blunted text read by Michael Cramm over unshakeable, plunging bass ballast. This will sound shocking on a big rig! B-side's 'Closing Eyes' swipes away any extraneous sounds to leave a desolate scape of plangent, ringing tones skidding… Read more
JON CONVEX
Lied To Be Loved featuring dBridge
3024
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Cat. Number: 3024018
After debuting on Martyn's 3024 label in late 2011, Jon Convex is joined by dBridge on vocals for three darkly romantic machine grooves. 'Lied To Be Loved' is the standout cut, rippling a "Moroder/Human Centipede" bass under glass-cut drums and dBridge's tender vocal highlighted with slivers of metallic synth melody in a fresh update of classic Electro schematics. Meanwhile, 'Zero' locks on a crafty sort of Electro-House motion hinting at ruder Detroit moves from an underground UK perspective, while 'Stay' sounds like a wetter Jimmy Edgar cut.
Superb debut drop from a mysterious East London operator by the name of Buzzin10. The three tracks of his 'Basement Mood' EP are pieced together from samples twocked off of old tape packs - mainly Garage Nation's legendary late '90s cassettes of DJs like EZ, Ray Hurley, Karl "Tuff Enuff" Brown and co - and fused with really trippy, sparing melodies reminding of classic AFX, Zomby or Drexciya. If you ask us it's one of the best things Frijsfo have released, and that's saying something when you consider their killer Sully releases. Highly recommended!!!
Last we heard of Deutch bass-head and best bud of Mr. Apparat Phon.O, he was crafting fluorescent Euro-rap with ex-Funkstoerung bloke Chris De Luca, but forget all that – he’s on 50 Weapons now and has a brand new MO. ‘Black Boulder’ is Phon.O’s take on the UK funky/2-step sound and who better to re-engineer that sprawling niche than someone with his production smarts? From the very beginning it’s clear we’re listening to something that has been sharpened by a diamond tipped blade – sure there are references to Burial, 2562 and Martyn (to name just a handful), but Phon.O’s crisp, clean produ… Read more
VARIOUS / 14 TRACKS
14 tracks: Inter-dimensional Dissolve
Boomkat / 14 Tracks
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Cat. Number: bundle_208
From the fractal dis-arrangements of Ital and Oneohtrix, to Mohn or Bass Clef's tunnelling expanses and the hieroglyphic patterns of Perispirit and Mordant Music, we've sifted 14 actively potent salts recommended for careful and immersive use. Going in head first, this selection surfs silver-lined man-machine paths between a meta-set starring some of today's most compelling electronic experimenters. These tracks play out a fantasy of autoscopic experience, intra-netted dystopia, fractal de-composition and advanced, abstracted thoughts in sound. At one end of… Read more
UNO NYC have assembled a killer remix package for Fatima Al Qadiri's 'Genre-Specific Xperience' EP. Girl Unit reworks 'How Can I Resist U' with a freestylin' Electro flex and white flash synth bursts, while DJ Rashad gives our percy 'Vatican Vibes' a pensive yet pummelling Juke overhaul and Kingdom gets to grip with 'Corpcore' on a percolating future Bass tip. New York's Dutch E Germ is a new name to us, and on the strength of his smartly diffused 'D-Medley' remix we hope to hear much more from him. P'raps best of all though are Dubbel Dutch's sparse and infectiously bubblin' re-do o… Read more
Essential remixes of Conrad Schnitzler by Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer. Sprawling, side-long workouts by Villalobos are no longer a novelty by any stretch of the imagination, but believe us when we say that the 'Sorgenkind-mix' of Schnitzler's 'Zug' genuinely counts among the finest productions of the Chilean's career thus far. He and his studio partner Loderbauer (Sun Electric, NSI, Moritz von Oswald Trio) bring the same exploratory yet forensically focussed approach to this project as they did to their reconstruction of the… Read more
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Idle Hands sustain the vinyl pressure with two nimbly crafted 2-step/Electronic-pop infusions from Kahn. Following sessions of computerised halfstep, rooted '06 styles and mercurial garage, 'Margeaux' continues his tradition of flipping styles on each new single. Here, we'd gauge possible inspiration from the likes of Four Tet, Floating Points or Gold Panda's widely appealing electronic soul grooves. Part 1 works a wispy, diced up vocoder vocal into a deftly scissored 2-step fray, while Part 2 reveals the vocal with clearer enunciation blurred into a dreamier, dubbed-out framework of glancing garage swing.
Killer package of Illum Sphere remixes, headed up by Kidkanevil, whose version of 'Agent White' seamlessly, stylishly shifting from sub-heavy, rudeboy R&B swagger to choppy old-school jungle and back again - no DJ should be without this. Dabrye is brought in to give 'An Old Escape' a facelift, and he responds with an immaculately low-slung fix, one of his custom slouchy beats framing sparkling synths and raw boogie-down bass. Ikonika steers 'Chasing The Midnight Moth' into sci-fi steppers' house territory, Detroit-style strings rubbing up against soca-inflected snare syncopation… Read more
SOUTH LONDON ORDNANCE
2nd Drop Records
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Cat. Number: 2NDRP12019
Arriving to acclaim from MAH and FACT, South London Ordnance debuts with his brilliant 'Sanctuary' and 'Roofy' cuts on 2nd Drop. Little is known about the fella and that's just how it is: his tunes do all the chat. A-side's 'Sanctuary' is a serious groove tool, body-syncing hi-hat strafes and ruffed-up snares with the deftness of a Beneath riddim, but placing more emphasis on wide-assed, 'floor-consuming bass and dark-end-of-the-warehouse reverbs for those who prefer to dance in the shadows. B-side's 'Roofy' is slower, murkier: voices are half-heard from the pill-eyed patina… Read more
Arriving with support from Oneman, Jackmaster and more, Last Japan aka Marco Giuliani makes his vinyl debut for Lo Note UK. 'Ambush' presents a sparse and cold, yet fleshly tactile sound, setting up the dance with misdirecting minimal subs and skeletal percussion before the titular ambush comes, dropping a dirtload of junglist breaks on yer. 'Tactics' holds down the flipside, craftily blending field recordings into the rhythmic framework before subsiding into rolling Bass styles punctuated by crisp, reserved tribal drums. One for fans of South London Ordnance, Blawan, Dark Sky, Untold, then.
Bristol don Guido’s latest comes courtesy of his own fledgling imprint State of Joy and is a typically hard-hitting bass-heavy slice of West Country hybrid pop. Lead track ‘Flow’ touts an assured vocal from Jay Wilcox who layers Guido’s orchestral half-time riddim with an assertive air of pop sheen, something you wouldn’t be totally surprised to hear on the radio, for instance. Those of you more sold on the man’s instrumentals might be pleased to know that flipside ‘Africa’ is a return to the fuzzy synth+bass stylings of his previous jammers, and just for good measure there’s an instrumental of ‘Flow’ bundled in too. Good stuff.
VARIOUS / 14 TRACKS
14 tracks: Never Been To Ibiza
Boomkat / 14 Tracks
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Cat. Number: bundle_207
It's true; we've never visited the white isle. But if we did, we'd probably want our Balearic soundtrack to go a little something like this. It would push off with Jan Jelinek's exotic 'Irrelevant Sound Effect', and really get into the sunset mood with pool/barside drifters from Cos/Mes, Cage & Aviary and The Durutti Column before taking a slow Euro strut with the likes of Laid Back and Lauer. Once the drinks started to settle in, a bit of Cosmic Metal Mother and Boys From Patagonia would keep the vibe simmering and sensual, for some deep blue disco from Northerner… Read more
Girl Unit returns to the Night Slugs mothership with an EP hefty enough - six tracks - and rewarding enough to be described as a mini-album. We'd almost forgotten how good this fella is, and 'Ensemble (Club Mix)''s boogiedown synths and deadly drum programming instantly set us straight. 'Cake Boss' is quite simply mental, seeming to re-imagine 909-bashing techno brutalism according to the jagging, stop-start demands of a grime dance, and 'Plaza'' is a ghetto-electro bouncer for the jeeps, while 'Double Take' strips away the feelgood synths and pushes the same rhythmic template deep into 'fl… Read more
Deeper, dapper Bass and Techno swingers from the one like DBridge. 'Passing Encounter' makes sharp moves on a Bass-heavy and Broken House flex enveloped by deep blue chords and pads, assuredly arranged with the suave attitude you expect from DBridge. On the other hand, 'Scarlett' goes for the rave jugular with insurgent Reese bass on a burning Breakbeat Techno swivel with devastating potential. BIG tunes.
Marcus Intalex turns up on Craig Richards' The Nothing Special imprint with two robust yet elegant House and Techno productions as Trevino. He's already receiving a lot of praise from the likes of Rob Hall and Scuba for his productions in this guise and it's likely he'll be getting more for these two. A-side 'Backtracking' works a warehouse-ready groove of super-phat square bass and oxidized drum machine rhythms softened by heart-lifting keys almost guaranteed to trigger whatever you've been taking. B-side's 'Juan Two Five' looks to the classic double refractions of early '90s … Read more
MOTION SICKNESS OF TIME TRAVEL
Motion Sickness Of Time Travel
Spectrum Spools
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Cat. Number: SP016
Rachel Evans continues her pursuit of the synthesised sublime on a new album for John 'Emeralds' Elliott's Spectrum Spools imprint. Fans of her jaw-dropping Seeping Through The Veil Of Unconscious LP, and its follow-up Luminaries & Synastry, will feel right at home with the time-space-warping mantras of this fine effort, the self-titling of which suggests that Evans considers it to be her definitive artistic statement to date. While the utopian drift of 'The Dream' is all well and good, we've always been more drawn to the darker side of MSOTT's outpu… Read more
SHACKLETON
Music For The Quiet Hour / The Drawbar Organ
WOE TO THE SEPTIC HEART!
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Cat. Number: SEPTICCD001
Eighteen months since their first issue, Woe To The Septic Heart!'s long delayed 2nd release finally dawns upon us. Comprising entirely new and previously unreleased Shackleton material - including collaborations with vocalist Vengeance Tenfold and musical spars Andreas Gerth (Tied & Tickled Trio) and Kingsuk Biswas (Bedouin Ascent) - it's also his most shocking and invigorating body of work. What strikes us first and foremost is the newfound vitality and visceral impact of his sound here. Any signature murk is replaced with a lysergic lucidity and rendered i… Read more
After releasing on practically every Dubstep label in the game, Truth drop two halfstep heavyweights on Tempa. 'Last Time' plays out a darkly seductive, highly pressurised jungle vibe hinging on swollen subs and darting breaks under cinematic synth arcs. Working with vocalist Yayne, 'Dreams' comes as close as it gets to Kryptic Minds' hallowed halfstep dramas.
Depending on your tolerance for advanced electronic boogie jazz, Squarepusher's last album 'd'Demonstrator' as Shobaleader One was either the epitome of cool or unlistenably indulgent. Returning two years later as plain old Squarepusher, Tom Jenkinson presents what might well be his most popular side since 'Ultravisitor', focussing on a "big room"- friendly fusion of almost Trance-y hooks and dance-able machine funk, what he terms "…pure electronic music… Something very melodic, very aggressive." It's almost as though he's been listening to Rustie's nostalgic hyper-theatrics and thought, "w… Read more
Two years since he helped establish the Tri Angle sound with that arresting eponymous debut, oOoOO returns to the label with his second single proper. Still obsessed with R&B rhythms and wistful Pop, on 'Our Loving Is Hurting Us' he's also joined by Berlin-based vocalist Butterclock to accentuate his forlorn sound. Whether it's lovesick emotion or narcotic overload, we're not sure what's burdened his heart, but it makes for a wickedly nervy listen. Best comes first, with the blank-eyed, hollow swagger of 'TryTry' and its disquieting, strafing vocal cadences arranged into maudlin ch… Read more
SUUM CUIQUE (DEMDIKE STARE)
Modern Love
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Cat. Number: Love078
Suum Cuique is the alias used by Demdike Stare's Miles Whittaker to vent his purest analogue noise experiments. Giving a stoic nod to the hardware emissions of Mika Vainio or Maurizio Bianchi, and conducted with a meditative practice comparable with Eleh, his 2nd album 'Ascetic Ideals' is the sound of Miles' machines coaxed into revealing their bleakest secrets, often recorded straight from the mixing desk with no overdubs or edits. Aesthetically, it's closest to his Demdike Stare material, as opposed to his Pendle Coven or MLZ releases, and was - perhaps unsurprisingly … Read more
Proving they’re still alive and still on point, here’s another winner from the mysterious Various camp, showing their darker, more soulful side with the silky vocal cut ‘Moving On’. Somehow this reminds us of early Leila, all woozy, slightly f*cked up and sort of delicious in its reimagining of digital soul music. For those who miss the dancefloor-heavy end of the label though there’s ‘Bolts’ on the flip that shows a rare Drexiyan electro bent and a new twist in their evolving catalogue.
Stepping off early releases on Horizons Music and Point Audio, this exceptionally talented 17 year-old Cornish producer joins the big dogs with two deadly focussed D&B actions. On 'Fractured' he sets a broad-shouldered swagger from gut-punch subs and clustered snare rolls executed with the sort of precision warranting his moniker. Flipside's 'Off The Cuff' resolutely sticks with the ultra-efficient aesthetic, using icepick-on-iron snares and wide, sludgy subs synced with cyber-strafing atmospheres for a proper dread future shock.
Two years since 'Splazsh' topped a stack of annual polls, Actress presents his 3rd, and most coherent album, 'R.I.P' - his 2nd for Honest Jon's. Despite being a vital cog in the machinery of underground UK dance and electronics since at least 2004 (when he released his 'No Tricks' debut), it's fair to say that it's only in the last few years he's made the shift from cult concern to acknowledged auteur of some repute. His work with Damon Albarn's DRC Music, beside a legendary DJ set at Sonar and killer remixes of Shangaan Electro, Panda Bear and Radiohead all certify the fact; so expectations are no… Read more
5KINANDBONE5 & VIN SOL
Soo Wavey Records
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Cat. Number: SW001
Wicked, bare-boned jax from UTTU's West Coast US pals, 5kinsandbone5 & Vin Sol. Dudes know what's up on 'Rhythm Tracks Vol.1', riding raw, chunky and tracky machine patterns like an old skool Chicago boss. All DJ - you need this one!
Promising youth, Blacksmif proffers two classy UK Boogie/House/Bass grooves for Blah Blah Blah Records. 'Hoops Dreams' hits up a slyding Boogie/Bass sound in freshest style, while 'Microweight' locks onto dusted, shaking House move recommended to fans of Semtek, Floating Points, Tom Trago etc.
**Dusted, downbeat and experimental Hip Hop instrumentals for the Brainfeeder heads** "KONE follwos closely on the heels of his well-received debut album The Tractatus with this EP, titled Legend Days. It is a return to a time before mankind altered the Earth's destiny permanently, when it was just the gods and the wind and water and the land… Musically, it reflects this sort of forward regression as well. The beats are stripped down and hard-hitting. It is experimental and primal. It continues to explore remote pockets of the global music sphere, drawing influence from Polish psyche to the f… Read more
Arriving some four years after his Metanarrative LP on Modern Love, Manchester's Mark Stewart drops his long awaited third album, Reform Club, on Amsterdam's Delsin. For those of us who've followed Claro Intelecto's evolution closely, it's a joy to listen to: more confident than ever in the strength of his writing, Stewart explores slower tempos - without ever straying too far from a rugged 4/4 pulse - and deeper moods than before. The impeccably knackered-out 'Second Blood' nods to the recent work of his old mucker Andy Stott, while 'Quiet Life' and the tear-jerking 'Still Here' show… Read more
Finely constructed and powerful Techno from this sought-after, Brussels-based producer. Between the elevated trajectory of 'The Escape', 'Stalker''s foreboding darkside swing and the galloping Industrial freak 'Attack Pattern', you're looking at one of the strongest Techno singles this year so far. Get us to a club, pronto! Recommended.
Super-taut, crystalline fusion of Hip Hop, Footwork and Electronic club music with a world-wide dancefloor outlook. XLII hails from Tokyo and his dynamic constructions are brimming with the sort of electric energy you'd expect from that city. 'Dilated' is a sharp slowfast burner with steel-tipped 808s, skewed synths and elastic bass stabs while 'No Cure' rocks up a rapid, outsider take on Chicago Footwork and 'Thro Yo!' works with flash, Amon Tobin-styled synthwork and ultra-criss drum programming beside the robotic ragga of 'Rasclap'. Starkey gives 'Thro Yo!' a fractal Grime overhaul and ex-Vario… Read more
The 'Say What' EP finds WNCL in dopest 'ardcore mode, tucking up springy, darting jungle breaks on a bass-jacked Techno axis. The arrangement unfolds with constantly surprising twists, revealing proper darkside stabs and cyber-strafing drones with signature, unconventional flair, while 'Flashlight' applies that uniquely strange touch to a tight Dubstep flex and Adam Marshall's remix skanks to a weirdly successful fusion of digi-dub and baroque electronic melodies kinda sounding like a baffled mixture of Deadbeat and Fatima Al Qadiri. Aces.
You can always trust Exotic Pylon to deliver music that’s pretty much as strange and unclassifiable as we get on the tables here at Boomkat HQ, and Maria & The Mirrors might be their weirdest to date. Like Atari Teenage Riot having a demon, Hi-NRG lovechild with Chris & Cosey, ‘Gemini Enjoy My Life’ is a terrifying journey through brothel-laced electro punk, but with the kind of production you’d more likely find on a Downwards 12” from 1998. It’s propulsive, oily and frankly great – not for all, but then none of the best things are, right?
Companion EP to Patrick Walker and Smear's imminent debut album as Forward Strategy Group, featuring two of its heaviest cuts, one exclusive track and a brace of remixes from Factory Floor. 'Labour Division' is a low-slung but shark-eyed warehouse number with shades of Luke Slater's LB Dub Corps project, while 'Mandate' explores darker, more minimal territory, with killer snare edits and scruffily dubbed-out chords, and 'A Greyed Out Life' is lush synth dreamscaping a la C2, Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream and even early Human League. Factory Floor's remix of 'Nihil Novi… Read more
Mr. Fingers, Linkwood and KiNK weigh in classy remixes of Tom Trago's 'Iris' album tracks. With the Tyree Cooper-starring 'What You Do' Mr. Fingers aka Larry Heard remixes the elements to a sensuous, slow-burning glyde while Linkwood serves a buttered, hypnotic overhaul of 'Being With You' urged by lustrous square bass and cushioned with velvet atmospheres. The notorious Bulgarian, KiNK takes a grubbier route with 'What You Do', adding a layer of gritty noise to rolling Reese bass, driving organ keys and roiling percussion in a subtly gripping, building 'Peaktime' rearrangement.
It's a bold move, but dropping tunes on 1-sided 12"s shows a label's confidence in the material as being of the highest possible quality. We can't really argue with Brainmath on this point, as that Zomby 'Rumours and Revelations' was just f*cking amazing, and we're inclined to say something similar about this plate from the mysterious Spiders. The untitled track in question is a creepy web of scuttling Shackleton-style percussion mixed with a psychoactive attention to detail, meaning lots of subtle drops and half-heard glimpses of sounds showing their beady eyes before retreating into the darkne… Read more
"Two hands, two channels, one take" accurately sums the Ekoplekz technique, but his pitch black portals of radiophonic dub continue to elude description like the movement of bats in a cave. Returning to Mordant Music - home of his 'Memowrekz' double cassette and 'Fountain Square' 12 - 'Skalectrikz' collects "searing live and studio scree from all corners of Ekoplekz's 2011 assault". The first tape features sounds captured and mildewed in his Dromilly Vale home studio (the name being a syncretic homage to King Tubby's Dromilly Avenue studio and the Maida Vale labs of the Radiophonic vanguard)… Read more
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Everyone's favourite purveyor of bleary-eyed rave make-believe, back with a dizzyingly psychedelic new album, Galaxy Garden. 'New Colour' is proper LSD-fried Sega tropicalia, the sound of being trapped inside an enchanted 16-bit play zone with only Sonic The Hedgehog and a copy of James Ferraro's Farside Virtual to guide you, proper bonkers mate, but from there on in Matt Cutler shows real depth and nuance to his productions: 'The Animal Pattern'' sounds like Wax Stag (remember him?) rewired for the club, all polygon synths, squelchy bass and laser-zaps kept tight and in line by woody, brukked… Read more
MODESELEKTOR WITH THOM YORKE
Monkeytown Records
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Cat. Number: MONKEYTOWN021
*Includes a Radio edit of album track "This" plus new track "All Buttons In" on the flip* ‘This’ certainly isn’t the first time German pranksters Modeselektor have teamed up with their biggest (or at least most famous) fan Thom Yorke, but it might be their most successful collaboration so far. Yorke’s familiar vocal is set to a backdrop of hoover bass, pounding kick drums and synth arpeggios and Modeselektor seem to have absolutely no problem with slicing and dicing them almost beyond all recognition. It works though, coming across like a meeting of minds rather than simply a feature.
Natty new single from Gold Panda on Ghostly, his first proper release since last year's sound DJ-Kicks set. 'Mountain' is full of the woozy, homespun charm that has earned the Londoner his cult following to date, with folksy woodwind and end-of-the-rainbow arpeggios rubbing up against slouchy tribal percussion and 808 kickdrum bounce. On 'Financial District', bleary-eyed synth tones and vocal snippets cluster around a lo-fi steppers rhythm - imagine Broadcast or BoC mixed by Lone and you're in the zone.
DIGITAL SOUNDBOY SOUNDSYSTEM
FABRICLIVE 63: Digital Soundboy Soundsystem
Fabric Worldwide
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Cat. Number: FABRIC126D
The rise of Digital Soundboy has been unstoppable, and it's no less than their due - what other label or collective so successfully connects the disparate dots that make up the UK hardcore continuum? The Shy FX-led DS Soundsystem's Fabriclive 63 comp confirms why they're so in demand on the club and festival circuit, with 49 frenetically mixed tracks spanning grimy garage (Artwork's immortal 'Red'), raucous 'ardkore jungle (North Base), bashy UKF (Roska, Dark Sky), dubstep (Skream) skunked-out reggae and dancehall (Rodigan, Gyptian) and of c… Read more
Mathew Jonson, Danuel Tate and Tyger Dhula's sexy TechnoHouse unit in great form for K7. There's a summer storm brewing on 'Who's Future?', drizzling plush subs with warm acid rain and velvet chords with signature sophistication. 'Across The Nation' is better yet, like some extended and sleekly reduced take on UR-style Hi-Tech Funk with extra subbass pressure.
Deep Medi unveil the debut from South London's secret weapons, K Man and Mr Kerox. Well, OK, they're not that secret: they've already notched up the opening track on Chef's Dubstep Allstars 07 mix and are regular players at DMZ and Subdub sessions; but to all intents and purposes, this is their debut and stands to put them properly on the Dubstep map. A-side 'The Clash' is a stone cold Mala favourite and it's easy to hear why: those, cattle-prod stabs, the divebombing bass, the explosive claps - it's a proper vibe. Flipside, 'Highest Strain' displays their mellow side with swirling, portside guitar licks and magical boogie chords on a slick bass roll. Smoke on it!
Hardcore Dubstep weaponry. Kromestar pulls no punches with the metal-tearing mid-range synthlines and trilling Trap 808s of 'Noiz', while Dark Tantrums hinge on silvery hi-hats over abyssal bass swerve on The Growler'. No messing, mate.
One for "those collectors out there", MoS present an unmixed selection of cuts from Andrew Weatherall's 'Masterpiece' compilation influenced by his Love From Outer Space clubnights. The venerable Mr. Weatherall require no introduction if you're over the age of 25 and have even a passing interest in club music. For everyone else he's the guy who behind Primal Scream's definitive '90s LP 'Screamadelica' and one of the most respected wax collectors int he world. For his 'Masterpiece' he draws for no less than six of his own remixes out of 12 on offer. They include his chugging … Read more
