Project Allout At Juno Download

Review: Fresh talent Addministro arrives on Project Allout with "Alert", showing himself to be a producer steeped in classic grime and UK funky, with a track whose power hinges on its raw bassline, 8-bit chirps and broken rhythms. Huge remix support is offered; Spooky turns in a sparse eski-inspired version with devastating subs and sirens, Trends and P Jam turn in jungle-inspired heaters. Our picks however are Moony's massive re-rub that pairs huge breaks with halfstepping action and Sir Pixalot's 8-bit version which sounds like an NES cartridge gone bad.

Review: It's not all doom and gloom... Unless you're getting down to Ethan Ryan's latest bass bubble up on Allout. Then it is all doom and gloom. And you wouldn't have it any other way. The lead tracks are playfully arranged; both explore the carnal, paranoid two-note riff favoured in horror while using two totally different soundsets. Elsewhere we get tripped out and scared witless by dark swamp jazz ("Kill Bill"), we get prang on strings and delicate keys ("Midnight"), we get warped and bewildered with fractured trap ("Omen") and we end on ghetto bass inspired turbo two-step tirade. Near-faultless bass music.

Review: Need reminding of the old adage "variety is the spice of life"? Then have a word with young Sketch-E here. He's given four reasons why one should never sit still. In the studio or elsewhere in life. "Rise" takes a classic Eddie Amador vocal and gives it a neck-snapping two-step breakbeat bash-up while "Whiplash" is more a classic swaggering grime instrumental, just crying for an MC. "Flare-Up" whisks us back to the TCR glory days when breakbeat was still nu-school. Finally "Gasconade" finishes us an madcap, squelch-bass jam that tips a nod to Zinc's early "138 Trek". And we don't go throwing round Zinc comparisons liberally.