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A.M.C?s Titan imprint is tearing up the dance right now and Dub Motion is leading the charge. Following this summer?s danger-doublet ?Warning? and ?Mercury?, here come four brand new heaters and hurters: ?Fall To Pieces? surges with an electrified Ram-style reese bass, ?Off The Record? is a minimal skipper chiselled with a hardness usually associated with an Enei jam, ?Exodus? puts the Dub back into Dub Motion with stark skanks and distorted horn heaves that sound as if they?ve been kidnapped and bundled into a car boot while ?Skyfall? closes the show on an emotional, breezy flex, all filtered pads and sensuous vox. All corners explored and consequently smashed.
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Frequently flexing around A.M.C's signature Titan sound (but not afraid of a little liquid soul when the time is right) Dub Motion reminds us who's boss with two more muscular peaktimers. All riff and iron trousers, "It Can Hurt You" is a real barnstorm banger with jump-up energy but techy weight. "Into The Dark" takes a deeper route with evocative synth arpeggios, a breathy vocal but equal gravity in the drums and low end. Two sides to one very heavy coin, Dub Motion's currency is high right now.
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Dub Motion is the type of not-so-newcomer everybody's happy to hear from. Fresh from a huge CYN release in 2014, he's joined Titan to bring a taste of his fluctuating influences and the results are stunning. Dropping into the warzone from the off, "Warning" sends stressy pads burning into the atmosphere like flares before battening down ready for the close-contact bassline and percussion to do their worst. Hunched and determined. That's the dance routine for this one. Despite the dark storms of "Warning", on the flip, "Mercury" is a flight of deep rolling effortlessness, showcasing a sensitive side nobody ever expected from this strong-willed producer.
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Kicking this comp off with Heist's terminally insane sample-fest "Paper Business", it's pretty obvious from the start that nothing is going to be what it seems. Don't get settled into that bassline then, because the jingle bells and hip hop (yes, both of those things at the same time) of "Pull The Plug" pulls up with all the cheeky charms of a loveable delinquent. Saxxon's smooth grooves mix perfectly with Jinx and Gigante before disappearing into a haze of souped-up bass, and finally Dub Motion get in on the insane action with swing sampling and shoulder-shrugging beats. These mad professors need to get loopy in the lab more often.
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It's been a while since Sweet Tooth cooked up an "All You Need" EP feast. But the wait has been worth it as five of the label's most exciting artists deliver electrifying new twists on the jump-up sound. "Murderah" is all about the high-end Hazard-style bass lickage, "Route 66" croaks like an angry, addiction-riddled frog who's run out of glue to sniff, "Side Effect" takes us back to Dreamscape at its 1994 prime with its paranoid-drenched synth stabs, "Could Be" wriggles with Majistrate's trademark wobbly charm while "Phenomena" toys with some of the most enduring aspects of late 90s D&B with a tearing mentasm, old school samples on the breaks and an interesting key change midway. Exceptional.
