Deep Thrills At Juno Download

Review: Having released a gaggle of absolutely essential material for Ten Thousand Yen, Welsh future-bass crew CRST have made the switch to Deep Thrills - Herve's newly-launched imprint. "Put A Spell On You" is a masterpiece of fats strings and super-tight drums, while "Heartbeat" keeps things on a dubby Detroit tip replete with chopped vocals that sound strangely like Stevie Wonder. The awkward-step of "Forever After" is well worth investigating too, as is the Todd Edwards-esque spank of "Feel It". We're simply addicted to CRST right now, and thankfully they've delivered six more reasons to keep the faith right here.

Review: Following the Paper Route Gangsters and Fatima into a small club of artists who have released songs bearing the same title as the fabled jheri-curl juice from Eddie Murphy's "Coming To America", CRST once again smash it on this EP on Deep Thrills. "Soul Glo (Part 1)" is simply magnificent - a UKF/jack house fusion with huge amounts of swing to the beats - while more pared-down material like the bass punch of "Being With You" and the spaced-out futurisms of "Big Bwoy Sound" are equally essential. Icey 2-stepper "You Are Wild" and the 808-fest "Midnight" round off another excellent release from this enormously talented UK production team.

Review: Described by the Irish producer Detboi as being the result of "a demo-based soundtrack to cut up videos which has now been turned into a nine track LP", Darkside appears on Herve's Deep Thrills this week with some truly menacing and dark beats, including the dubby-jack of the title-tune, the dubstep-esque beat scramble of "Stay With Me" and the old-school garage punch of "Give It Up". Crafting a sound that's both minimal yet thoroughly rude, Detboi really comes into his own on this highly recommended release.

Review: Out on Herve's new imprint, Deep Thrills, Edinburgh-based bass/garage/tech merchant Hostage takes a step away from his hyper-rave styles of previous releases and instead allows these four new tunes to breathe a little. The results still make for peak-time bangers, but songs like "House It Up" are given deeper textures and more grooves, whilst still working a subby bottom end and classy percussion. Check out the Zinc-esque "Tunnels" or the grimey stomp of "Fade To Black" to see what we mean.