Djrum At Juno Download

Review: After his outings last year on 2nd Drop, DjRum's Mountains 12"s get reworked by a couple of upstarts continuing the label's predilection for new avenues bass music can travel down. Pedestrian steps up with his aptly entitled "Pirate Radio Remix" of "Mountains Pt 1", bringing some highly atmospheric garage bassline action to the fold, peppered with crafty drum rolls and MC chants. Tessela meanwhile twists "Turiya" into an embryonic jungle roller with a sideline in wistful synth action. Both tracks hark back to (supposedly) bygone eras of the hardcore lineage, but ably update them with modern production panache.

Review: We don't usually condone lying here at Juno, but when you tell seven of them across a beautiful nine track debut album, it's absolutely acceptable. Applaudable, even. Highlights across this deep, tightly woven bass adventure include the Portishead-style trippy dubtronica of "Comos Los Cerdos", the somnambulant drones and breathy washes of "Lies", the nagging techno loopery of "Dam" and the trembling graveyard soul of "Arcana".

Review: Perhaps one of the more intriguing figures to emerge from the UK's ever shifting bass landscape, Djrum's two part Mountains EP was one of 2010's cross-genre highlights, combining dubstep and techno with some evocative sample wizardry. This EP picks up where the producer left off, with the title track combining a slick percussive groove with sundrenched vocals and the kind of harp that would make Four Tet swoon, stretched out over an epic 9 minutes, evoking every sunrise rave moment of the last 25 years in one package. "The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn" is even more atmospheric, combining a laid back 2-step rhythm with an ever-shifting soundscape and dubstep inspired bass, coming together to create what you might imagine Mr Fingers teaming up with Burial might sound like. Fantastic stuff.