Review: It's always exciting to see new Infernal Sounds material landing in the store, with today's helping coming to us from the moody production book of Hella, who impresses with three powerful creations. We open up with the devilish vocal displays and busy percussive sweeps of 'Back Up', a crunchy overall design that kick starts the intensity of the EP perfectly, before the super clicky drum design and percussion inclusion of 'Dare I Say' gives us something a little more subtle, focussing on shimmering melodic stutters and a more calm sense of rhythm. Finally, 'Foul Play' deploys a warping bassline across the lower end of it's arrangement, topped with colourful drum chops and a moody backdrop to match, rounding off the EP in wicked fashion.
Review: Despite their relatively short time within the spectrum of releasing new music, The Sub Merchants have unveiled an absolute corker with this latest 'Ridley Road' compilation. The project showcases some of the freshest sounds in 140, kicking off with Distinct Motive delivering a warbling robotic display in 'WY', followed by Hella & Logan linking up for the dungeon-ready arrangements of 'Chattings'. Fearless Dread then arrives with some fungal flavour with the dingey subs of 'Sucker Punch', before the weighty basslines and minimal percussive arrangements of Distinct Motive return on 'Therapy'. The pace refuses to slow as Hella delivers a percussive overload on 'Low Rider', followed by the breaks infused twists and powerful low ended maneuvers of 'Light Em', seeing Fearless Dread arriving for his second outing. We then move into three corking remix additions, with Oxossi giving a more dubwise twist to 'WY', Logan_olm treating 'Chattings' to a skippy refurb and Mincy giving 'Light Em' a ferocious roller of an overhaul. Amazing work from all involved!
Review: Boy oh boy what a year it has been for the Duploc family, who despite all the madness of 2020 have still kept up their incredible run of consistency, dropping nothing but bangers throughout the duration. This, presumably their final drop of the year sees them pull together a monstrous roster, featuring the likes of Cartridge, BunZer0, Ourman, Opus, Teffa, Sam Cosmic, Xakra and many more to give us one final celebratory look into dubstep in the modern era. The complete track listing is absolutely bonkers to tell you all the truth, with quality leaking out of every single original. Some favourites we have to mention however of course include the sizzling bass designs and spooky textures of Wraz's 'Ghost', alongside the fluttering flute melodies of Mani's 'Secret Forest' and 'Gibberish', a super smooth subby glider from Surreal & Somah.
Review: Following on from a fantastic selection of full length drops across 2020, the Duploc team continue their exciting run of form here, presenting the fourth chapter of their sumptuous 'Duploc Selects' series. They offer up another 10 system scorchers, with the likes of Rez, Oddkut, Hotcut, Nova and more all supplying the goods. The full tracklisting is pretty outstanding, but there are a couple of highlights we couldn't not mention, with Hella's spacey saxophone genius on 'Trinity Centre' being an instant hit. The sub-busting basslines and explosive reesey textures of 'Me N My Speakaz' from DRTY HBTZ is also an absolute bop, with the sizzling low end of Idioteque's 'Morality' also raising some eyebrows!
Review: The consistency of dubstep labels such as Duploc in recent years really is something to behold and celebrate, with their latest drop continuing the themes we seem to bring up every time, as Hella drops two beautiful bangers. Firstly, 'Maple Trees In Spring' combines an emotive, Asian sounding string-lead harmonic structure with beefy, well thought out drum structures to create something somehow both introspective and outward facing. On the flip, the slightly quicker tempos and horn driven rhythms of 'Cascades' provide a fantastic level of differentiation, holding both tunes in a well designed balance of subtlety and beauty.
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