Aufect Recordings At Juno Download

Review: Having recently released a series of killer remixes of other producers, Canadian bass troubadour, Bassmynt, is back with his own release. Clearly keeping it lean and mean, we get just two tracks here, but it's all about quality rather than quantity. Beginning with a bled-out filtered intro, "Blind Night", soon explodes with a bouncy, heavily affected electronic bassline and clickey beats. "Keep It Pretty" keeps it deep and dubby, with slo-mo beats, arpeggiated keyboards and positively haunting synths.

Review: Hailing from Canada, Bassmynt is yet another producer to add to the long line of Canadians doing great things in the world of bass music. Opener "Saturn" perfectly encapsulates his style; mixing the swing of garage, the forward thrust of solid house and the punch of techno, its characterised by its piercing stabs, clipped vocals and thudding beats. "Your Secret" takes a somewhat gentler approach combining his signature elements with a rush of warm chords, while the descending arpeggio and cavernous grime aesthetics of "Pitch Fork" sound like some lost Night Slugs release. Remix support provided by Visionn, who transforms Saturn into a wiry rhythm machine, and Silvermayne, who delivers a brittle footwork version.

Review: It's true to say that genres in dance music really are melting away at the moment. With its clippity-clop rhythms, velvety pads and melodic vocals, "Heat Wave" is a warm blend of spacey synth-pop and house. Bassmynt's 'Rain' remix, takes the tune round Burial's for a night in with a broken synth, before Reilly's Indian Summer mix takes it out for a bit of thumping-jazz clubbing (yes, a new genre for us too!). "Buried" is an intriguing mix of doomy, bass-heavy tuneage and ecstatic gospel that is given a mangled garage makeover by HxDB.

Review: Aside from being a self-described 'guy from Canada', there's not much more we know about VLsonn (except his real name - Vlad Sonn). What we do know of course is that Vlad has a mean line in creepy, spooky beats. "Dronology" features moombahton-style beats married to haunted, gothy synthlines that wouldn't be out of place on an early Gary Numan record. "Stray" is slower, a messed up retro swing jam with don't-go-there-issues and finally "Venomous" lays on some extra heavy beats, warped vocals and still makes room for those ghostly synths again.