Review: Two more stone cold artefacts from the golden era vaults: Dom & Roland continues to unearth more treasures in the form of "Phoenix" and "Tears In The Rain". The former is a Tech Itch co-lab from the mid 90s that charges with rusty drum edits and a drop into a stripped back sub groove and twisted shades of acid while the latter looks back to his "Mechanics" chapter with a rampant, heavily layered heads-down roll, spooked-out overtones and a classic Bladerunner sample. Just like the vinyls themselves, these are foundation-era gold.
Review: Dom's Dubs From The Dungeons series continues with more long-lost treasures from one of the most genre-compounding eras in drum & bass. According to legend "Invasion" takes root in a remix of Ed Rush before becoming the sci-fi odyssey it is now. Rolling on some deliciously loose and jazzy breaks, there's a latent funk beneath the foreboding veneer. "Revenge" takes a much more direct approach with its teeth-baring bass grunts and glacial pads. Like everything in this series (and pretty much everything Dom has ever released full stop) these don't stand the test of time - they reverse it.
Review: Ive always been a huge Dom fan so im always quite biased when it comes to his tunes. Here we have the second in his Dubs From the Dungeons series which is concentrated on unreleased dubs from his earlier years. The Trap features the classic Dom amen with that killer kick drum stomp that i was always enamoured with and it drives a completely twisted fucked up tune, the kind only Dom can master.
Swarm reminds me of Ed Rush's Subway which was released to great acclaim on Prototype. I believe Dom engneered that track as well. Buy it.
Review: If you don't manage to catch the limited run gold vinyls, here's your chance to take a big bite of history as Dom rolls out a series of some of his most sought after dub plates from golden era. We rewind to 97 for these, both made with Headz in mind and hammered by the biggest names at Blue Note, they speak for themselves; "Aliens" is a brutally dense weave of alien textures and tones while "Zodiac" licks with a little more toxic funk in the bass and sharpness on the chiselled two-step. You can literally feel the heritage heaviness as it pours from your speakers.
Review: Fresh from one of his strongest albums to date on Headz, the scoundrel returns to his own imprint with two elephantine collaborations with mates old and new. First up, long-time tech demon Fierce joins the fray with a tight, ever-morphing and mutating groove that could loop from here to eternity and never get boring. Next up, the seismic slab of raw design and devilish aesthetics "Ultraviolet" wherein Dom teams up with his protege Xanadu (who is now a respected craftsman in his own right) for some truly unique hair-raising 3am material. Monstrous.
Review: If the titles of these two new offerings from veteran Dom & Roland seem a little ponderous don't worry their music hasn't mellowed whatsoever. Heavy as always, "A Life Of Chance" kicks things off by perfectly recapturing the E-d up wild-eyed delirium of the early Metalheadz parties. "Natural Selection" takes things way darker however, combining industrial melodic squawks with brutal beats and general serial-killer's-basement vibes. Nihilistic jungle.
Review: Classic remix klaxon: Dom's 2007 terror-tech slammer was remixed by longstanding US bass-smith Hive a few years back but - in classic jungle form - it's only seeing the physical light of day now. Time means nothing when heaviness on this level is at play; Dom's original elements sound like no other while Hive's live electricity sound and hornet's nest angst will still sound futuristic and bold in 20 or 30 years time. Steroid soul.
Review: How could "Get Up" - one of Dom & Roland's most unforgiving dance floor endurance races - get any better? Get some seriously twisted individuals in to give it a good rough-up, that's what, starting with LA-based E-Sassin, who has packed even more devastating neuro nuances and punchy drums into the mix. Italian badman Mr Frenk joins in for the other side with a similarly unadulterated rampage into the world of drumcore-meets-neuro, sound design-meets-straight-up D&B aesthetics.
Review: 2014 is a special year for Dom Angas. Not only is he turning 40, but it also marks 20 years since the release of his first single under the Dom & Roland alias. As part of the celebrations, he's handed over the parts to a string of classic productions to a veritable who's who of D&B talent. They provide a series of dark, pulverising, rolling and occasionally intense reworks, all designed to cement his reputation as one of the greatest exponents of the artform. Highlights are naturally plentiful, from the classic jungle breaks and rave-era rush of BTK and Optiv's rework of "Jungle Beast", to the exotic melodies, foreboding stabs and tech-tinged textures of Mindscape's mighty rub of "Mindfeeders".
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