Review: Mixed live by DJ Beenie, Garage Kiss: Sounds of the Underground Vol. 1 is a compilation that features 25 of the garage underground's biggest tracks, showcasing the best of the new wave of UK garage talent. Highlights include The Next Room's "Turning Point", whose horn samples recall Roy Davis Jr's classic "Gabriel", Fuzzy Logik's "Playground", which weaves a tightly rolling UK Funky beat and fat bassline around Myshy's catchy vocal action and jazzy, bright synth melody, and Danny B-Line's refix of Redlight's "Source 16", wrapping a bass squelch around rave whistles and hollow snares. As skillful as DJ Beenie's mixing is, the superb selections also come as unmixed original tracks.
Review: Fuzzy Logik follow up this summer's All My Love EP for Sweet and Sound with this new release on World Class, which is also the debut single for vocalist Myshy, backed with a slew of killer remixes. Fuzzy Logik's original of "playground" weaves a tightly rolling UK Funky beat around Myshy's catchy vocal action, complete with a jazzy, bright synth melody. Matt IQ provides two remixes; his Main Room mix takes things in a straighter 4/4 direction with peak time synth stabs, and an Electrotastic mix which brings some tropical heat in the shape of a conga-led rhythm and neon melody. Dexplicit takes things in a grime direction, filling his production with rolling snares and tense strings, while TopFlyte turns in a furious garage refix of warbling sub bass and clipped rhythms, and Audiothrapy's C Saw mix reworks it into a dubstep juggernaut. Fuzzy Logik finish up the reworks themselves with their own VIP version, which adds a darker note to the original's poppier tones.
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