Review: The mighty Electrikal Soundsystem power up a brand new label operation and they're launching in style as Jam Thieves takes the honour of the launch release. Two powerful, stripped-back techy slammers, first up is 'Different Wave', a purring, shiny slab of badness featuring a sharp-tongued narrative from rising MC Kori Roze, it's a deeper cut than we usually see from the Brazilian conserve snatcher. 'Tic Tac' brings up the rear with similar intent but on an instrumental flex. Groaning, weaving and sizzling with bass weight, this was tailor made for Electrikal's famous rig. Get wavey.
Review: Now rolling solo, Jam Thieves continues to hurl bassline muck around the place, this time on Serum & Benny V's Souped Up. 'Bogota' is a stripped back vocal piece with an unyielding tech-teased bassline that belongs in a high security space weapons stockade while 'Don't Kill' takes us even deeper into the jam pot with very sleek and contemporary futurist paranoia. Darker than usual Souped Up flavours but still a perfect ingredient for any sets where the wobs are heavy on the gaf.
Review: Jam Thieves are the Brazilian duo who have developed a reputation for their unique blend of skipping minimal and gargled jump up funk, and this single on Invicta will not disappoint fans of that sound. 'Joker' blends a fearsome sub bass with well placed ripples of twisted low frequencies, which scream across the range with all the energy of red hot shrapnel. 'Blunt' is well named, as it has less sharp edges but instead swirls and percolates with muddy force that's focused in the lows and based on minimal, tapping percussion. Awesome.
Review: Jam Thieves are the Brazilian duo who thrive in the murky ecosystem of minimal drum & bass with serious attitude, music that's slick in its production but nonetheless full of anger under the surface. This time around they're on Jungle Cakes for a top-notch single that's in their trademark style of solid sub bass and snapping snare drums. Their sample game is back on point too and it shows on 'Mista Lava Lava', where they bring a well-known vocal hook into action above a penetratingly minimal back end, a pattern recreated on the flip, 'Bad Chargie'. Top work.
Review: Jam Thieves are arguably two of the freshest talents currently residing in the Playaz camp, their less-is-more approach to the Playaz jump-up orientated ethos injecting every one of their tunes with an elegant sense of power. On this occasion, their music is being given a reworking by both TC and themselves. TC's remix of 'Minimal Funk' - the title track to their 2016 debut album on Playaz - is amped-up and outrageously aggressive, it's glitched out synth stabs and oily run of low-frequency energy suitably tailored to the original's minimal force. On the flip, 'After Blast' is given the VIP treatment and, despite the original being a heaving mass of bass, is made even heavier with added emphasis on the heavy. Two big tunes these.
Review: Sao Paulo's Jam Thieves are back and they mean business. The duo are drum and bass experts and it seems like the whole city has been affected by the genre. "Crazy Clown" is a rolling, growling break-ridden melter that you know will go down a storm on any sort of soundsystem, big or small. "Sexy Baby" is straighter; its breaks more bare and minimalistic and it's that familiar siren sound which sticks out. Madness.
Review: Sao Paulo, Brazil must pump soul into their maternity wards. The rate their young producers are stepping forward with classy, timeless, soulful drum & bass, there surely isn't another explanation. Perhaps young Sao Paulians are encouraged to take liquid funk evening classes? Either way, it's working for them. Jam Thieves return to the dancefloor with a couple of cool, collected rollers, helping to ease the world back into the summer party mindset. "Cosa Nostra" fills each and every crevice with warm, resonating sounds, arching high above a deep, rolling bassline. "After The Dance" on the other hand is a sleek and jazzy break-filled trip back to the old-school; plenty of interest, plenty of texture. A gorgeous release from two very promising producers.
Review: Stinky in pink to make the ravers wink: Jam Thieves gets his stick paws all over the Technique discogs with this heaving four-piece of tear-ups and bubblers. 'Pink Girl' takes the lead will full impact as a scorching bass texture shreds through the mix with twisted gusto. Elsewhere 'Disco 45' goes full 4x4 dancefloor with nary a glitterball in sight, 'Harbourside' is grotty enough to awake the kraken while 'Stokes Croft' pays homage to Brizzle's party district. Link with the Pink today!
Review: Something exceedingly warm and slippery right here on Dispatch... Jam Thieves gets deep across four system-primed tracks. 'Bling Run' just oozes dark funk but keeps things reined in at all times. 'Spike' takes that notion to an even deeper level, going in on a stripped back subby warm funk that could be compared to Sir Skeppy. Deeper again 'Sunday' purrs like some type of robotic leopard, ready to pounce on its prey before 'Boomerang' closes the EP with a barking bass texture that's constantly evolving in a really clever way. This will definitely keep coming back to you.
Review: Invicta Audio is a record label and events company currently based in Bristol. For their next release they have tapped Brazil's Jam Thieves, now operating as a solo act, who is hot off a recent release on Hospital Records and drives into 2021 with the aim of levelling up on the Holy Plant EP. Features the drum 'n' bass ragga swagger of the title track, followed by some deeply meditative dubstep in the form of "Mista Lava Lava" which showcases the diversity within this talented producer's reerptopire. Elsewhere, you have got the fierce techstep roller "Dub Cali" and the seething vocal infused neurofunk of "Madona" which closes it out.
Review: Jam Thieves are the Brazilian duo who make simply sumptuous, minimal, rough and tumble rollers and they do so with an excessive amount of power and finesse. Love Forever is their latest EP and it's four more slices of sub heavy techy goodness, each individually packaged in an attempt to get your head moving in the dance. Title track 'Love Forever' is our favourite because it samples Marvin Gaye, but also because it's just proper minimal naughtiness, with in point drums and a chest-bashing sub bass. Excellent stuff.
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