Review of Liars Club by Felix Stone on Composure Records UK
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009A Theif Can Only Steal From You
Electro-chilled beats with a superior edge, and a rolling synth line. There is a Bush of Ghosts feel to the transcript vocal sampling that works well against the hypnotic sound mosaic that makes up this track, pumping and rhythmic from speaker to speaker. Somewhere between jacked up and laid [...]
Review of Play That Shit by Ollie Pie on Sovereign House Records
Sunday, April 19th, 2009Put The Needle On The Record
Beefy breaks bustin’ on your stereo, and some bang off remixes to boot. I am giving the big thumbs up to this, the R.H.B. Mix and the jacked up Original Mix, but that’s only because I’ve not fully checked out the album. I can say this however, strong tunes, top [...]
Review of The 50s by D.J. Kermes on Young NRG Productions
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009An Idea Just Crazy Enough To Get Us All Killed.
Talk about off the wall, this one comes at you from out of nowhere. I can’t imagine why anyone would choose material like this to make a tune with, or why for that matter they would give it this treatment. Imagine the ambient flow in some [...]
Review of To The Line by I.D. on Passenger
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009Taking It Easy, Bright And Breezy
With a seriously ill bass line thrown in, this is a large one to get your weekend started. Plenty of drive, underpinned with disjointed synth harmonics and a heavy dose of dancability. Definitely not a wintertime tune, and despite it’s heavyweight bass calling card, a bit sweet and a bit [...]
Review of Something Happened by Modern Beat Orchestra on Modern Beat Digital
Saturday, March 7th, 2009All Over Me
A right diamond in the rough this, and I nearly overlooked it. Don’t make that mistake, go beyond the preview for a big tune in hiding. A well tight, bouncing electro spill ride, paired up with the freshest vocal I’ve hit on in a long time. A hypnotic syn bass pulls you in, [...]
Review of Fucker Bass by Softive on Minus Mal’s Records
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009All That Scratching
Is making me itch. Fat boy bass, mucho macho, big and beefy and coming in like a bitch. Mother fucker bass might be more appropriate, because this is a mother fucker of a tune. You don’t need to be a b-line junky for this, but it sure would help. There is a minimal [...]
Review of African Beats [Afroelectro Mix] by Bloco Electro on Earth Connection
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009Strong Like Elephant, Fight Like Lion
When Afro first broke in the UK I was big into artists like King Sunny Adee, Thomas Mapfumo and Remee Ongala. Their music had a tribal,jazzed up, high life dancability that was entirely lacking in Western music. That craze came and went, but here is that feel back with a [...]
Review of Dubspeed by Maniattack on Mazala Recordings
Saturday, February 14th, 2009Pumped Up, Not Trumped Up
Fat and fresh, this beat will take you all over the place. A super wobbly bass, horns, synth stabs, hard breaks and top dubwise vocal elements mashed up seriously and bouncing like a bitch on top. From the broken beat opener to the Frankenstein’s monster collision of the finish, this is [...]
Submallet by Chas 10 on Trenchant Dubs
Saturday, February 7th, 2009Space Invaders On My Lawn
Heavy weight dub plate for you all. A right sizzler this, bubbling away on the back burner, all arcade and serous science, mega phat bassline colliding with a steady flow rhythm track. Trenchant Dubs about describes it for me, this thing bites harsh, and it’s drawn from a sweet four track [...]
Review of Slot Def by donito yelo on vlihdl recs
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009This Is What It Sounds Like
And this is what it goes like. Tense is the word that springs to mind when you tune in to this little belter. Not a 140 bpm mega ride by any means, but a doped out , filthy mini beast all the same. Short enough to keep you clicking [ [...]
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