Review: Macabre man Demon up to his old tricks again: "Light" is a foundry-smashing design, all concrete slaps and smashes. Soul is found deep in the barbed vocals of Monika who creates a sheen that's not far off Portishead circa Third. Immense. Hot on its heels is a sight-blurring, blood-pumping, fist-bumping VIP of last year's breaker "Narkotics". Now with added busted beat jungle designs, it's even more complex and sense-popping as it was before. Stick this to the man and tell him the drug war is over.
Review: Macabre Unit founder Demon on Wheel & Deal with his first dubstep release since autumn 2013? Yes please! "Chronik" goes for the jugular with fast-paced industrial strength beats and a magic, lava-like flow. "Break Point" flips around a cool vocal sample axis. Twisting and turning with well-oiled prowess, there's a strong sense of dark funk throughout. "Salvation" tips a nod to the murkier, moodier halfstep foundations but does so with some really cruel twists on the fills. "Genocide", meanwhile, is a truly dark 4/4 composition that gives Beezy's conscious, thought-provoking sermon the space it deserves. Finally we hit the Biome collaboration. Last spotted together two years back with the massive "Incubus", they make up for lost time with a supreme halfstepper than munches dungeon motifs before spitting them back out in the most subversive way possible thanks to an almost psy-like synth arpeggio. Stupendously immersive.
Review: Deep dubstep producer and head of M.U.D Records Demon continues his passion for the genre with this, a bass-driven siege in the form of "Geth". Very much a product of the early days of dubstep, it features all the hallmarks of a classic of the era: sci-fi interludes, sparse, elemental percussion and of course that deep, relentless bass driving it all forward. A master at his game, Demon knows all the wrong moves in all the right ways, and "Intern" plays on a steadily creeping bass as the tension mounts. The fractured samples and instrumentation that's thin on the ground make for an uneasy listen, just like in the old days before hyperbolic drops and supercompression. Well worth a look-in.
Review: For a man with such a dark moniker, and a track that conjures up the most gruesome of pursuits, this is actually on the light side; for every urgent wail and evil noise, there's some seriously vibrant arpeggio action on the fills as the cut develops, making it strangely uplifting. "Intensity", meanwhile, lives up to its name in a more conventional way; impact-production on the drums really shines as the bass spits foul bars with mechanical menace.
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