Review: The Cutcross crew have pulled together a very exciting compilation box with this latest 'With The Sonants' collection, welcoming four producers whose arsenals are truly stacked with sonic colour. We open up with Epoch's '2 Door Subaru', a monster of an original, focussing on drone-like synth tones and dizzying snare delays, before Woven Thorns unleashes the horrorcore pad backdrops and clicky percussive shuffles of 'Loveless' for a real switch up. The glitchy feel continues as ZNS then delivers the chiming yet ghoulish tones of 'Try Me', followed by a wicked finale in Soukah's 'Don't Care', an industrial march through gnarly bass belches and big room drum smashes, rounding off the collection with a bang.
Review: It's always a good day when we see new music landing from the legendary 1985 Music team, who continue to push some of the most exciting and experimental electronic sounds out there right now. This latest four track collection kicks off with founder and sonic mastermind: Alix Perez unleashing a bulbous display of gnarly steppers energy on 'VTRN', jam-packed with sliding LFO's and intricate drum designs, followed by the stuttered rhythms and delicately designed percussive layers of 'Shush' from HIJINX, which also packs a seriously bassy punch to match. The don Ebb then touches down with another chilling creation in 'Ill Rest', maneuvering horrorcore soundscapes and luminescent bass sweeps, before the sizzling reesey tones and clunky drum work of Epoch's 'Beastmode' round the EP off with some serious finesse. Exceptional work as per!
Review: Now the team at ONEPUF are gaining quite the reputation for extracting the weird and wonderful out of the producers they work with. This latest third edition of their self-named compilation series is a perfect example of that as they welcome 8 producers who all bring something very different to the table. Epoch provides us with an amphibious roller with 'Understand', followed by Exit 99's very unusual moogy creation 'Lemon Acid'. Next, some techy breaks action on 'Flugel Dance' from Coldpast before Kobe JT & Tuff Tax hit us with some original UKG flavour. Joedan keeps us on the garage tip with 'Black Everything', followed by the jersey club style sounds of 'Swisha Drop' from Killjoy and high speed acid vibes of Zeed's 'Fish & Chips'. Finally, DJ BMW lets loose some original techno flavour with the unpredictable moog stabs of 'Reactor Core VIP', with Headchef's 'Alarming Regularity' providing us with the perfect outro for this momentous compilation.
Review: Epoch returns! And he's packing some of his rarest steez since "Soundboy Abduction". All air raid sirens, trippy widescreen basses and a scientific spoken word all comprise to form a brutal wall of sound slo-mo drama on "V1" while "Roacher" bubbles with a technoid sense of playfulness and unpredictability. Finally "Rib Cage" takes the surreal sensations to even higher levels with a melting intro, nagging hi-end percussion and the strangest harmonic strings ever to grace an Innamind release. Truly singular.
Review: New Zealand dub champions Averted Vision apply their radio show and event dynamics to a new release. Repping the broadest dubstep sound while staring defiantly into the future, each cut tickles a different corner of bass music's underbelly. ARtroniks embraces the skitty, icy spirit of Detroit on "Trossen", Epoch subverts a very well known Lafayette Afro Rock Band horn sample over a trappy kick-snare-sub combo, Lowquid breaks into an abandoned cathedral to the soundtrack of harrowing harps and strings while Lefty gets his Special Request on with a breakbeat cut that's reminiscent of early Headz material. Finally Inkarv & JP get all breezy and skippy (a la Vaun or Phaeleh) with the sublime spine-melter "Solace". Beautiful.
Review: Despite the title, no one was harmed or indeed abducted during the making of this EP. However that's not to say that the music's not sinister - it is - but the devil's always had the best tunes right? Egyptian Avenue's ethos of putting out the most leftfield bass music continues undiluted with these tow slices of slow and low hip-hop influenced numbers. "Bodywash" is a moody head-nodder that totally synths-out half way through. Meanwhile, "Gun Talk" is a slow fusion of wobble, bass and trap.
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