Review: Amentec have done a great job in assembling this top level collection of new school breakbeat action, welcoming no less than 14 artists inside across 13 hard hitting creations. The exciting thing about the project is that it leaves no breaks-inspired stone unturned, featuring the likes of Sound Synthesis, Inkipak, DAWL, Flatliner and more. From the intense, arcade style arrangements of Sub Oscillator's 'Ketzer' remix from Difool, to the more abstract acidity of Bobo's bulging 'Club Proxima', we see such an exciting range on display. Our highlights therefore have to include both the classy club-ready bops of Ova Doce's 'Keep On', next to the cloud-lining euphoria of MOY's 'Jovian Sunrise'. A truly top quality collection.
Review: Inhabiting a similar musical territory and releasing on the same labels - including Klasse Wrecks - it makes sense that Dawl and Luca Lozano would eventually collaborate in the studio. Given their shared musical influences, it's no surprise that the resulting three-tracker mines the wild-eyed energy of 90s rave. Subsonic tones straddle rolling break beats on "Data Transfer", with these elements providing the basis for haunting vocal samples. While it is structured on the same break beat backing, "NRG" is deeper and more soulful. Angelic vocals swirl over dramatic strings, transporting the listener to a euphoric place. Changing tact again, the dynamic duo drops the MC-led "Virtual Space" - an irresistible dance floor banger.
Review: Under the DAWL alias, Darren Woollard has carved out a niche as a purveyor of retro-futurist gems that regularly draw on classic bleep, breakbeat hardcore, acid and electro for inspiration. He's at it again on this killer EP for Acid Boom, which sees the nostalgia-fired producer charge between bleeping, acid-fired sleaziness ('Soundwave Disorder'); LFO-inspired electro-breaks weightiness (the creepy sci-fi chords, angular melodies and booming bass of 'High Gain'); TB-303-heavy jack tracks ('Close Your Eyes', with its intense acid lines and sweaty drum machine percussion); and bustling acid-breaks business (the hip-house breakbeat-driven dancefloor funk of 'I Am The Energy'). All killer, no filler!
Review: It's time to take the acid-breaks fusion to a whole new level here as DAWL lands on Craigie Knowes for four tracks of electronic mastery, kicking off with the moogy arpeggios and crunchy breakbeat drumwork of 'Let's Go'. Following this we then move into the more nostalgic padwork and rolling percussive switchups of 'Drop It', before we head down a super old-school road on the bubbling bass tones of 'Heavyweight'. Finally we finish this one up with a dash of additional spice as 'Overdub' wades into view, slowing the tempo into a more timedancey episode, driven by it's unusual percussive expanses and acidic synth patterns.
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