Scott Allen At Juno Download

Review: Duoscience and Scott Allen team up for the Soul Self EP. Channelling a classic Fokuz sound, this is simply bursting with lush, lilting melodies, shuffling breaks, drifting atmospherics and glimmers of vocals. Chiming piano keys sound in the eponymous track of the EP with the hypnotic lyric repeating "soul self" looping round some lush breaks and hissing hi-hats. The accompanying "Desert Moon" is all lustrous chiming noises, rustling and rattling beats and a blissed out soundscape, stripped back but delicate in texture with warm, undulating bassline and cooing vocals.

Review: Joseph Ablett and Scott Allen team up for the deliciously languid tones of the Riviera EP on Celsius. "Goodbye Wish" is characterised by killer hats, subtle bass murmurings and a delicious milieu of gentle atmospherics and ethereal vocals. "Up Above" sparkles with twilight keys, while the title track brings the drums, which provide the rugged beauty beneath the smoky jazz samples. Finally, a raw percussive into heralds the entrance of final track "Far Away", a wistful number with a particularly pleasant titular vocal refrain, which rounds off a frankly excellent EP.

Review: Scott Allen and Against head up this single on Fokuz. Its rattling breaks and gentle chiming intro pave the way into a lush, mellifluous main part full of swishing atmospherics, lush piano keys and snippets of sinuous vocals which are interwoven into the main fabric of the tune effortlessly. Ky and Deeper Connection step up next with "You're The Only One" - a more weighty, stripped back roller with emphasis on the bass and rolling subs. Gentle melodies still populate the track, with ethereal vocals and delicate delivery. One for the liquid lovers.

Review: Scott Allen & Deeper Connection and Soulculture team up for a sterling collaborative EP on Soul Deep. Expect rattling breaks, jungle-inspired vocals, murming basslines and reggae samples a-plenty across the five-track adventure. "Badness" gets the party started with punchy drum rolls and reggae horns, before Soulculture's jungle riddim "No Heed Dem" kicks in, and then "Some A Dem" with its funky SFX. Scott Allen & Deeper Connection return for "Joke Smoker" with its firm beats and booming bass, and then "Run Away Soundboy" rounds things off.

Review: Fokuz bring us a five course musical dinner from D&B chef Scott Allen, who together with Deeper Connection, Duoscience and Twisted Facts, serves up some lush new flavours to cleanse the palette. "Close Encounters" is all sombre piano keys, tripping breaks and gentle liquid funk, whilst "If I Were Your Woman" goes in with a throbbing b-line and weight subs; "Street Of Gold" pairs clip-clop beats, horns and discordant keys in a smoky, sultry nodd to the jazz era. "Summer Rains" is the most straight up D&B track, reminiscent of the early noughties, and the Brother remix of "Primitive" brings the EP to a close.