Review: Is anyone 'Out There'? It's the question humankind has been asking itself since the dawn of eyeballs. Now 10AD is joining the celestial quest... And he's got a whole troop of badboy astronomers with him; Froidy, Nexus, MC Steve and Smuggler are all on board for this cosmic conundrum and the results are every bit as planet-colliding as you'd hope. From the gruff swing of 'Pure Evil' to the twisted spiralling sound design of 'Insane' via the alien textures and stutters of 'Room', there's a whole stack of evidence that other life forms don't just walk among us... They make drum & bass too. Essential misfit music.
Review: If you're worried about producers spending too long in their studios and not getting enough fresh air, or producers inappropriately dressing for an occasion, then save those thoughts for another artist as Agro is most definitely okay: he's currently out on the piste and he's most definitely wearing the correct gear as 'Ski Mask' will get those cheeks nice and warm with every slope-bound slap. Elsewhere 'Murk Nothing' wriggles and rants with the energy and mischief of a young Tyke, 'Porridge' will heat you up with its sludge, warm oaty vibes while 'Scum' closes on an ice cold vibe. Wrap up warm from face to foot.
Audio & Black Sun Empire - "Disruptive" - (4:53) 172 BPM
Bedlam Axis - (4:13) 172 BPM
The Fang - (4:57) 172 BPM
Burnt Bridges - (4:55) 172 BPM
Nirmata - (5:01) 172 BPM
Ruins - (4:33) 172 BPM
From The Ashes - (3:29) 174 BPM
Review: Blackout are certainly raising the bar this year. We've barely started to recover from Ed Rush's album and look who we've got here... Audio laying down the foreboding futurist law with his seventh album Where The Chaos Lies. Created with a narrative and theme of AI (both his fear and interest in it), it's some of his rawest and intense work so far. His metal-flavoured collab with Akov's Aenygma project 'Blood On Our Hands', the scorching, brazen attitude of 'Rave Machine' (with Burr Oak), the breath-taking hurricane of 'The Fang' and the wild, fittingly-titled 'Disruptive' (with Blackout bosses Black Sun Empire) and the outrageous punk-like tear-out funk of 'Burnt Bridges' are just some of the mind-bending displays of raw power and technical tenacity on show here. King moves.
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