Review: From nodders to full-flavoured brock-outs, Twisted Individual's Grid imprint gets it's VA jiggy on with this stunning collection of contemporary D&B blast-offs. Five cuts from across the future, highlights include the sizzling dynamics and skin-rippling tones on Damage Report's 'Unpredicted', the spaciousness and trippy feels of Burntboi's neck-slicing 'Samurai' and the stuttering drama and darkness of VariableOp's 'Duck Down'. Keep on nodding.
Review: Twisted's Grid switch to full blast once again with another collections of what they call 'Head Nodders' but us mere mortals call 'deep, tense, stinky bangers'. Featuring a full cast of familiar Gridsters, the vibes range from the farty party of Jando's opening 'Jaguar Trap' to the Dutch oven noxiousness of Parallel's screaming finale 'Warped Entity'. Between these two points we have the trumpy pumpy ruffage of Damage Report's 'Punch Bag', the trippy steamy vapours of Oli Lewis's 'Just You' and the air biscuit crunch of Jaxx's swashbuckling 'Horses For Courses'. Smelly.
Review: Grid Recordings are sick little label that we regularly cover here because their releases are so consistently good, so consistently naughty and just so consistently consistent. Damage Report is a regular appearance on their release catalogue and he's back with the Neck Noose EP, a five-tracker of bubbling, jump-up influenced wizardry. There are plenty of rolling bangers here, but 'Piranha' is the tune that really caught our attention. With a creative, almost-halftime drum pattern and snarling bass flicks, it combines novelty with time-proven strategies of dancefloor damage.
Review: Grid Recordings are a regular here on Juno and for good reason, their proclivity for steadily releasing rough but energetic, whole-hearted cuts is strong and their small size doesn't prevent the release of top-quality music. The title track is the strongest on the release, with a Dispatch-esque feel to its cracking percussion and a torn, broken back end that rips across the range with style. The other 3 cuts go down a more jump-up route and, if you like Grid, this is the release for you.
Review: Gavin Damage aka Damage Report returns with his third release for Grid Recordings this year. On the title track, the influence of jump-up and hard core loom large; rave horn blasts, electronic squiggles and pile-driving drum builds all come together to support a matter of fact sample that simply states 'your father is far from being a well man'. "Bag of Chat" sees the prolific UK producer opt for a different route. On this occasion, the sound of dub lingers over the arrangement as a splurging bass underpins fast-paced chat. It's proof again that Damage Report is one of the UK's most versatile and talented drum'n'bass producers.
Review: Shots fired! Murking marksman Damage Report gets mucky with his latest lenger. Croaking and smoking with a precision chiselled riff that adds more and more lasers on every 16, it's a spunky number that drops into a remarkably euphoric breakdown before going in for happy slappy seconds. "Not Impressed" shows Damage Report's slightly moodier side with a floor sweeping scuzzy sub and tightly-rattled percussive licks. Get loaded.
Review: Twisted's Grid launches a new series dedicated to the deeper, introspective moments in life with five seriously respected artists at the dials. DJ Limited continues to show how versatile he is with the clanking, wobbling, slurring "To Be The First", man of the moment Need For Mirrors gets his slinky step on with "Such A Thing" while Damage Report gets his dancehall neck brace on with the hardest, snare-snapping jam of the set "Took You So Long". Elsewhere Dexcell add pace and grit to Mutated Forms' space-hopping bleep shock out "Duct Tape" and Raz brings down the curtains with a hurricane snare rattler that's laced with bone-chilling textures and rises. One for the heads...
Review: Shake those sleeve-tatted arms of yours, groom that well-trimmed beard, smash your avocados to a pulp: Damage Report is taking us to our hipster leader and he's doing it low-swung, heads-down grizzly style. Chugging like the bittersweet taste of almond milk, "Shoreditch" is every bit as trendy (and techno-y) as its name suggests. By this logic you'd expect "Current Bun" to be all sticky and sweet, right? Well it's not. It's chewy, it's gritty, it deposits a venomous aftertaste right at the back of your tongue, it will leave you feeling like you've had an electric shock and you'll keep coming back for more. Take us to your baker, Damage Report
Review: Damage Report returns to Twisted's recently revived Grid imprint with another absolute shredder-fest. Six-tracks deep, it's mean, it's raffish, it's toxic, it's rolling, it's hooky; ain't nobody messing around right here. "Frankenstein" is every bit as freaky as its title suggests, "Don't Offend Me" ignites with an almost trancey feel before dropping into a late 90s Bristol steppy sound, "Banana Tree" is a bongo-busting rattler that purrs with subby goodness, "It's Alive" is a stripped back spook-fest that wouldn't go amiss in a Serum set while "Rope Swing" leaps through the jungle with a truly chest-beating bassline and "Message Of Doom" signs out the EP with the deadly intention it deserves. Damage Report has been smashing it for several years now. This is the sound of him levelling up once again.
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