Review: Digital Terror have had a sick last twelve months and this VA shows off some of their best cuts from the year, featuring acts like Jayline, Dutta, SL8r and more. Those latter two collab in serious style on 'The Pain', which cuts down into the range with fire and fury, angled sharp basses knifing through the frequencies with the grace and decorum of an elephant in heat. Jack The Ripper lands with supreme heaviness on 'Direction Course', Spaow brings the old-school vibes on 'Gallopo' and the collaboration of the album comes from the dream team of Jayline, Bou, Dutta and MC Dino who land with aplomb on 'Pico Skank'. Seminal.
Review: Sleng your tengs love, you've pulled... Fineprint return to Hokilla's Digital Terror with a high strength four pack of rave juice. "Sleng" sets the scene with a classic reggae sample and a waspy, early 2000s Bristol stuff exhaust pipe bassline while "On Sum" brings serious wobbles on the multi-layered bassline and woozy drunken beats. Elsewhere we get intimate with a mysterious entity called "Frank White" and experience what life is like when you combine slimey funk elements with industrial strength bass shreds before "Mo Fo's Downstairs" blasts us off with a 21 laser salute. Vicious, unrelenting and grotty in all the right places; trust us, you'll be slenging these down the hatch for a long time to come
Review: The fineprint is usually there to trip you up, to conceal things from you which might've altered your decision or outlook on something. Fineprint isn't like that. Unlike his namesake, with Fineprint you get exactly what you think you get: an array of blustering synths and seams of relentless drum lines all tied up into one. His from Chi 2 NY EP does this better than usual, especially on 'Mash', which epitomises exactly what's good about his productions. Banger on bangers.
Review: Here comes the remix! Digital Terror look back over their eight year back cat and dust off a few faves that are ripe for the rework. BassBrothers step up first with a darker, more demonic take on "Cartel", only hinting it the original's hair-raising 16Bit style high end textures. Envenom take us back to 2015 and add a whole new layer of twisted harmonic funk to "Kicks" while Dutta gives us the (KRS) one-fingered salute with the savage high-note riff venom. Finally Jayline & Hokilla's 2013 jungle rumbler gets a stark subby treatment from San Diego fire man Sub Killaz. And this is only part one...
Review: Easily one of the strongest new UK jump-up labels to have emerged in the last two years, Blackley's Cre8 continues to rep the spectrum with another blistering V/A collection. Highlights include the trippy dual-tone bass riff on Rowney & Propz's "Look Further", the pure gutter-tones of Blackley's "Question", the "Night Flight" style beats and tubular sub on Dorian's "Warface" and the early Die-style bass burps on Fineprint's "Drop Danger". Creativity never sounded so strong.
Review: Jaydan's label comes correct with its first ever multi-artist album featuring some its most exciting artists and affiliate and a widescreen snapshot of where both Smokin Riddims and underground D&B in general is at right now. Highlights include the Mind Vortex style electricity of Shifta's "Deadfall" Leaf's skippy, twisted roller "Dis Style" and the abyss-level sub bass depth plunges on Upfront & Aesthetics' "Touch" but that's just a small selection of what's on offer here. Jaydan doesn't do things by halves, Serious Selection is proof that lives up to its name.
Review: A new year, a new sound for Digital Terror: 2016 is all about peace-loving liquid harmonies and gospel grooves. Just kidding... "Allies In Terror" says it all: a coalition of well chiselled and super-grizzled jump-up D&B. Highlights include Macky Gee & Complex's hype-charged "Fight Riddim", Fineprint's KRS-One stamped horn-blaster "Promo List" and Fraksure's Accurist-sponsor scrap alarm "Danger O'Clock". Wind up material; you can sweep more than Rolex's with this one...
Review: Fresh from the Cre8 DnB Radio Show comes the crew's backbone - Rowney, DJ Blackley, Certified Sickness, Fineprint and Jaxx all make an appearance to bring the cult radio station to a club near you. Filled with the upfront sounds you'd expect with the creative twists you might not, each producer adds a touch of the unexpected, making this a release you don't want to miss. Highlights include the hyped jump-up of "Not This Time" to the strange, kung-fu film inspired mania of "Get To The Point". There's "Reactor Faliure"'s techy build-up to Fineprint's brutal "Chop Off your Arm" and finally the downright filthy final track "Twisted Tones". After this you'll be a Cre8 convert.
Review: Drum and bass duo Fineprint come straight out of Long Island and Chicago for their debut on the seventh volume of Liondub International's long-standing "Street Series". The pair present their uniquely cinematic, hard-hitting style over five high-pressure pieces, carefully finessing that sound on title track "Gargon", pushing militant jump up drums and bass blasts to control the pace. For "Hypnosis", the foundation flexes even stronger muscle while backing sounds get twisted, and "Rockaz" begins with sampled reggae references but soon switches to harder, jagged bass patterns and rigid breaks. "The Clash" takes a similar tact, amplifying the contrast with extended reggae samples worked against hammering bass and drums. On the complex tip, "The Konkrete Skank" begins ominously in break-driven ambient territory with wobble basslines accompanied by the EP's trickiest percussion. Well worth the full listen.
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