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FOKUZ 024
23 Oct 06 Drum And Bass
FOKUZ 025
20 Nov 06 Drum And Bass
FOKUZ 025
20 Nov 06 Breakbeat
FOKUZ 2010-09B
11 Oct 10 Drum And Bass
FOKUZLP 003S
17 Dec 07 Drum And Bass
EXPRESS 007
21 May 12 Drum And Bass
Review:
Blade brings us a rather delectable EP on the Fokuz imprint, full of blissed out atmospherics and lush rolling breaks. Teaming up with Arp 1 for the title track "Lithuanian Beauty", you can expect shuffling, percussive drum work and shimmering SFX to dominate. For the rest of the EP, Blade goes solo, starting with the cooing notes of "Parts Of Me" with its gentle instrumentals and vocal snippets, and progressing through to the end with concluding cut "Tingles" - a delightful, chirpy little number which just oozes soulful vibes. A beauty of an EP here from Blade.
FOKUZ 2010-11
06 Dec 10 Drum And Bass
FOKUZ 2009-07
03 Aug 09 Drum And Bass
FOKUZ 2009-05
13 Jul 09 Drum And Bass
FOKUZLP 004S1.5
28 Sep 09 Drum And Bass
FOKUZ 033
08 Sep 08 Drum And Bass
FOKUZ 2012020
20 Aug 12 Drum And Bass
Review:
Chartstalker gets all lush, lilting and lyrical in the Born Again EP. Kicking off with the sultry, sonorous sounds of "With Me", it's all about the uplifting atmospherics, swooning sweeps and punchy drums setting the pace and tone for the duration. This one's a real laid back cut, which will work well on the dancefloor too - hands in the air style! Accompanying cut "Born Again" goes in on a more contemplative tip with shimmying beats, hushed cooing tones and clinking piano keys. Charming from start to finish.
FOKUZLP 008
14 Nov 11 Drum And Bass
Played by: Physical Illusion
Review:
Command Strange brings us the epic Episode 91 on Fokuz. A nine-track album of pure quality, this one kicks off with the sumptuous "Miracles" - a heavy, purring bassline underpins crisp, crunching drums and a trance-like synthline. He gets experimental and deep in cuts like "Sweet Nightmare" and the ethereal counterpart "Dreams". Tracks like "Song For You" are exercises in unrestrained yearning, with delicate beats, repressed vocal and a sense of pained beauty. Liquid loveliness comes courtesy of "Days Are Cold" and concluding, piano-chiming finale "Give It To Me". Utterly sublime from start to finish.
FOKUZLP 008S001
01 Nov 11 Drum And Bass
Review:
With his recent "Bingo" release on Integral still ripping up dancefloors with its catchy, infectious nature, Kazakhstan's favourite D&B son Command Strange keeps up appearances with this excellent release. As a precursor to Fokuz Recordings' forthcoming Episode 91 LP, lead track "True Love" perfectly encapsulates the label's sound and vision, a mesmerising slice of future soul music. Flipside "Carnival" flips the script with a growling bassline and menacing FX. Don't sleep on this.
FOKUZ 2011-01
07 Feb 11 Drum And Bass
FOKUZ 056
28 Jan 13 Drum And Bass
Review:
Command Strange's next release comes to us via the Fokuz imprint with two solid tracks plus a further two digital exclusives - you just can't say no to this! First up is the title track "Rock Steady" with its raw, metallic sounds, pattering drums and quirky SFX. Next is "Open Your Eyes" which is underpinned by booming bass and dominated by chiming beats and echoing snippets of female vocal. "Sugar", the first of the two digital exclusives, is a deep and meditative cut with swirling synth work, whilst "All That Heaven Allows" is all choral elements with booming atmospheric sweeps.
FOKUZLP 006
22 Nov 10 Drum And Bass
FOKUZCD 006S1
09 Aug 10 Drum And Bass
FOKUZ 045
10 Aug 11 Drum And Bass
Played by: Juno Recommends Drum & Bass
Review:
Hailing from the furthest reaches of Khazakstan, Command Strange provides us with part one of the 45th release on Fokuz. "Pushed" is a super slick stepper with light percussion, tremulous bassline and delicate murmuring vox, executed with a military precision that pushes it along for the duration. Heavy1 takes over for the next cut, bringing in MC Flava for vocal duties in "Surprise". Here, it's all about the atmospheric builds and tripping breaks, punctuated by furtive Kemo-esque lyrics and warping bassline. Fans of Survival, Lynx and the Critical camp stand up.
FOKUZ 043
25 Oct 10 Drum And Bass
FOKUZ 2009-06
31 Aug 09 Drum And Bass
FOKUZ 2009-03
01 Jun 09 Drum And Bass
FOKUZ 2009-02
27 Apr 09 Drum And Bass
FOKUZ2 011-014
07 Nov 11 Drum And Bass
Review:
Talented duo Derrick & Tonika bring the magic to Fokuz with their two-track Follow The Stars EP. "Trust Me", up first, is a superb exercise in 21st century liquid funk; rolling, ticking breaks set the pace and set the style, whilst cooing bass, lilting vocal snippets and humming synths add a lustrous edge to the proceedings. Stunning stuff here. "Follow The Stars" treads a different path with syncopated drums, spaced out atmospherics and a more experimental feel. A booming bassline underpins the track and adds weight to a strong release.
FOKUZ 2010-12
13 Dec 10 Drum And Bass
FOKUZ 2012014
02 Jul 12 Drum And Bass
Played by: Msdos
Review:
A very palatable EP indeed here from DJ Clart who pairs light, feathery melodies with warm instrumentals and cooing basslines. "The Grind", the first track of the EP, sets the tone with muffled atmospherics, pattering drums and sparkling synth sweeps. "Without You" is all heartfelt, distant vocals, pulsing drum beats, cinematic sweeps and warm, purring tones, whilst "A Fine Whine" is a more subdued cut, executed in a sparse soundscape. Last but not least, "Who We Are" brings in the talents of Elijah John for a glorious finale to the EP.
FOKUZLP 007
06 Jun 11 Drum And Bass
FOKUZLP 007S1
23 May 11 Drum And Bass
FOKUZ 2012019
27 Aug 12 Drum And Bass
Review:
Every now and then someone pops up and surprises you with their sound or approach to making D+B. Donnie Dubson is one such character, who brings his idiosyncratic ways to the Fokuz imprint. Blending skittering, syncopated beats with warm waves of bass and sweeping instrumentals, he builds layers of sound on top of one another for maximum impact. "Transition" is one such onion-skinned track with plenty of melodic moments juxtaposed against flurries of beats and bass. With "Assemble" it's a different story as things get slowed down and stripped back with warping bass and eerie SFX.
FOKUZCD 001
20 Nov 06 Drum And Bass
FOKUZ 005
21 Apr 08 Drum And Bass
FUKUZ 002
16 Jun 08 Drum And Bass
FOKUZ 016
23 May 05 Drum And Bass
FOKUZ 010
27 Nov 07 Drum And Bass
FOKUZ 012
28 Jan 08 Drum And Bass
FOKUZ 2011015
05 Dec 11 Drum And Bass
Review:
More lilting liquid loveliness from the ever-dependable Fokuz imprint, this time from Duoscience. "Sunday" gets this seven-track EP off to a lovely start, with charming vocal and twinkling melodies; "Brighter" is all warm bass and sultry contemplative glow, whilst "Super Star" is a punchier number. "That Is So" adds some quirky glitch to the proceedings, "ABC" pairs troubled piano keys with shuffling breaks and "Category" adds buckets of soul. Concluding cut "Mona Lisa" is every inch the beauty invoked in the title with seductive guitar chords and blissed out atmospherics. Lush.
CLS 2012003LPS
26 Mar 12 Drum And Bass
Played by: Platform
Review:
Well Fokuz aren't missing a trick this month. Just a week - one week! - after Flame & Paperclip's EP on Fokuz Limited, they deliver this shimmering soul shakedown from Brazilian man-about-town Duoscience. Teasing us with three cuts from his forthcoming album, this whole EP screams for sunshine and shaking booties as Duo irons out crisp grooves with Latino panache. Intriguingly, it's the final B-side flavour that cries for the most attention - a free jazz, lounge lizard of a remix, it shows Duo's skills at their most musically versatile. More than just your average banger machine...
FOKUZ 2012002
30 Jan 12 Drum And Bass
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.
FOKUZ 2012012
11 Jun 12 Drum And Bass
FOKUZLP 009
23 Apr 12 Drum And Bass
Review:
Dynamic brings us a truly enchanting album in the shape of Modal Lounge. "Feel The Way You Do" gets things started with a flurry of rattling breaks, chirpy instrumentals and muffled song, before we move through the lush, lilting rhythms of the aptly named "Fade Away" to woozy, soulful laidback loveliness in cuts like "Manhattan Love Theme" and "Softly Spoken Night". "Nighttrain To Montmartre" continues the romantic theme, with gorgeous, breezy atmospherics. Elsewhere we have the sultry "Modal Lounge" and concluding cut "Old Brooklyn Thing". A great album to unwind to of a summer's evening.
FOKUZ2012 003
13 Feb 12 Drum And Bass
Review:
Dynamic steps up with a couple of lush, liquid rollers on the Fokuz imprint; first up is "Memoirs From Neon City" with its fidgety background melody, reverberating vocal element, and firm, thumping drum kicks. It rolls along for the duration with warm sub bass shining through from below and little edits adding interest. Accompanying it is "And We Flew Into The Night" which builds from a shimmering intro full of triangle-like synth sparkles and humming harp strings, into a gentle little ditty with spaced out atmospherics and yearning vocals.
FOKUZLP 009S1
26 Mar 12 Drum And Bass
Played by: Msdos
Review:
Dynamic presents The Modal Lounge Sampler on Fokuz and the clue hers is in the title - laid back, lounging music with oodles of soulful sexiness. The four-track EP starts with an instrumental of "Inner City Love Affair" - a sultry, shimmying affair with twinkling atmospherics. We then move on through "Lovers Flight" which is all lapping breaks, cooing vocals and seashore SFX, to "Starlit Romance" with its insistent pattering intro, harp strumming and oriental allure. "Skyward Vibes" is the concluding cut and rounds things off in style for Dynamic.
FOKUZ 13030
21 Jan 13 Drum And Bass
Played by: Hidden Riddim
Review:
Dynamic, Pixel and Blade team up for this four-track Soul Hypnosis EP which is full of mellow, feel-good vibes for the duration. Kicking things off is Dynamic's "Indelible" with its soft, breezy atmospheric sweeps, timid breaks and glistening melodies. Next is Pixel's "Doubt" with its tripping beats, swirling piano melodies and hypnotic glow, whereafter Dynamic & Blade team up for "Soul Hypnosis" which is a more sparse offering, dominated by pattering beats and echoing vocals. Then Pixel draws things to a close with the soothing sounds of grand finale "Sequential".
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