Review: Timeless sounds on a brand new label: jump up veteran Jayline links up with General D for two slabs of early 2000s wubs on burgeoning imprint Versatile Audio. 'Down The Rabbit Hole' wobbles and shreds like an old time G-Dubs joint while 'Jabbawocky' goes in hard on the sandpaper stabs. Imagine doing a slow dance with a chainsaw and giving it the tongues and you're hitting the right g-spots. Bad to bone.
Review: Destination NYC: Liondub International look back over their last year of releases with this almighty 25 track collection of highlights. As always with Liondub's broad and highly international church, the vibes go the full flex from classic dancehall jungle to epic jump-up tear-ups. Highlights include Bladerunner's savage Amen assault 'Jungle Strike', the big vocal licks and even big bassline snorts of JNGL's remix 'Worldwide' and Original Sin's absolutely despicable twist on the Riko Dan-front 'War Ting'. And that's just the tip of this junglistic iceberg. Don't sleep on this one!
Review: We're not into bullies here at Juno Download, that type of behaviour can go straight into the sea. But we will make big concessions for Bully Squad when they're slapping us silly with big dancefloor sounds like these. Pure jump-up, made entirely undiluted for mainstream hype and tapping into a classic energy that's been relevant since the early 2000s Bristol sound of Clipz and D*Minds, Jayline brings two timeless scorchers to the Bully Squad vaults. 'The Box' goes in a rough machete style bass texture and rampant beats while 'A Million Times' hits with more of a rising sense of pressure and cool vocal sample. KO material.
Review: The mighty Jayline returns to Liondub International with a supreme collection of VIP flips and twists. Weighing in at 10 tracks, it's an album sized affair as Jayline digs deep across his discography and gives a wide range of his cuts a special boost. From the soulful licks and cheeky Q&A style bass bumps of 'Star In The Making' to the warped grot of 'Network' via the tropical funk and lavish beats of 'The Galapagos Islands', this is the full Jayline spectrum all juiced up and ready for the club season. Get to know!
Review: Destination: Rotterdam. Riot Dubs build on their years of free downloads and community building with this exceptional VA from some of the best in the game. First up are AKAS (AKA Steve Wise) and Georgia Phoenix who go full-on dancefloor with 'White Lines' while Heist gets his Wii vibe on with the brilliantly quirky and funky 'Juicy Fruit'. Deeper into the EP we hit hectic pace and tension from Jayline while Brazilian pair Duoscience bring the EP to a gentle and graceful close with 'Slow Day'. We predict a Riot.
Review: Reaching out to the massive! Liondub and good friend Marcus Visionary curate another absolutely slamming collection of upfront bubblers and blazers from a whole range of on-point talents for the fifth volume of their Jungle To The World series. Every single track is a highlight here as we slide and glide from vibe to vibe. Bladerunner's 'Jungle Strike' is the perfect intro that sucks us deep into action with pure energy while elsewhere other cuts like the VIP of Jayline's 'The Lion' go full-on elephant bass, Conrad Subs goes classical jungle with the chops, cuts and warping bass notes of 'Call It Love' and Teej gets militant with his breaks on his remix of SuM's 'Disorder'. World beating junglism.
Review: Gr8 news m8, High R8 are celebr8ing 10 years in the game and it's not too l8 to join the party. Agit8ing the game with abrasive, high grade grottiness and jump-up dark energy with every release, this second volume of bangers-through-the-years kicks off with a VIP of the launch tune - Guv's now modern day classic 'Blood'. The vibes get danker and danker as we continue to investig8... The gutterfunk of Dub Berzerka & Filthy Habits 'Born Bad' from 2016, Metal Work's skank-blasted 2019 cut 'Don't Know Why', Telekom's hairy 2014 tree-swinging heave-ho 'Funky Monkey' and Nu Elementz and Dub Motion's 'Tell You' (also from 2014) are just some of bangers that activ8 our senses and make us ready to instig8 a packed dancefloor. Ready for the next 10 years? It's a d8.
Review: Long-time mates and sparring partners Jayline and Ruffstuff shoot out more radium rays with this crucial doublet on Jayline's Soundbully Audio. If you know the levels of trouble these two cats cause, you'll already know how vicious they are without pressing play... 'Mortals' is an immense piece of springy, savage sandpaper funk that rattles with crisp breaks, trippy samples and a bassline strong enough to electrocute you through the speakers. 'Speechless' maintains the gully factor with an equally naughty off-kilter bassline, swaggering drums and haunting vocals. Serious business.
Review: Jayline digs deep into his vaults once again and serves up a whole kettle of killers ranging across the tempos and flavours as always. Highlights include the Van Helden bumping house bust-up 'Funk P Nom', the savage breakbeat hurricane 'Apparently Nothing', the twisted bassline headbutt 'You Gone Too Far', the euphoric hardcore-esque rushes and air piano vibes of 'Tainted' and the epic romantic and super sensitive and caring finale 'I Wanna Kill Someone'. So will you if you don't pick up this release!
Review: Jayline and Liondub are back, back again, the label which ceases to pump out music which pummels you, pleases and you and punishes you in equal measure. This time around the badman himself has worked on a five track EPand it's a percy, with slices of trademark damage that tread a wicked line between over-the-top jump-up, junglist fire and deeper, more considered cuts. 'The Galapagos Islands' is the best example of that, as the drums roll out into oblivion and a gargling expression of bass energy lights up the top end of the range in stabby, serious fashion. We also love the atmospherics of 'Sahara Desert', which sees floating vocal samples layered over in Technimatic fashion. Energy, energy.
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: Reload and come again: our 'Juno Download Selects' edition with the mighty US dnb HQ Liondub International continues for another session. Once again featuring an A-list rollcall of now household names, it's another reminder of how much heat Liondub International have cooked up over the years, supporting artists from their earliest moves. Highlights on this set include the turbo slammage and necksnap switches on Jayline's 'Anglo Saxxon', early hurly burly from the man like Macky on 'Black Widow' and the always-devilish bubbles of Motiv's 'Vultures'. And that's just three of 15 crucial example's of Liondub International future-focused benchmark. Get to know!
Review: Link-up, look smart; we've connected with one of the most exciting labels in dnb for a collection of their biggest hitters, rising stars and highest sellers: Liondub International. Headed up by Eric Liondub in NYC, Liondub International have broken and nurtured more new talent than most put together, and these first few volumes showcase. First up come these 15 examples as the likes of Kumo, Bou, Jayline, DJ Hybrid, Saxxon and many more all deliver timeless heaters. Highlights include Sub Killaz' broadsword skank-up 'Murderah', Brian Brainstorm's junglised slash-up 'Kill A Drumpan' and Bladerunner & Johnny Osbourne's ever-sweet 'Night Fall Dub'. All this and plenty more; whether you've been following Liondub since day or you're new to their consistent onslaught, there's plenty to catch up on here. Selector!
Review: Jayline is back on his very own label with a stomping collection of four tunes and this is a full EP, then, and we're very much into it as every inch of these tracks are characterised by quality and the diversity is great to see. You've got big, riotous rollers like 'Lets Get Litty' and 'Indomitable', which will get even the laziest amongst you dancing, but then also jungle numbers like 'Waterphone'. There are seriously nice tones of old school jump-up all the way through this release and it's a return to the subgenres more genuine, barebones side. Wicked release.
Review: Jayline is back on Eterrnal Muzic with a stomping four-trackr, mostly from the man himself but Chunky Bizzle makes an appearance as well. This is a full EP, then, and we're very much into it as every inch of this release is characterised by quality and the diversity is great to see. You've got big, riotous rollers like 'Be Somebody' and 'The Bells', which will get even the laziest amongst you dancing, but then also more stabby tunes like 'Reinvoked' or 'We Don't Need To Get'. There are seriously nice tones of old school jump-up all the way through this release and it's a return to the subgenres more genuine, barebones side. Wicked EP.
Review: Jayline is landing on Liondub in a hot minute, off the back of his 2019 Street Series release on the label and his 10 year anniversary tracks, he's come up with the Lion & the Unicorn, a four-tracker which rests on the laurels of the scene's current boon for foghorns and it does so with style. 'The Unicorn' is our favourite, with a funny load of sampling on the introduction that let's you know what it's like to be a unicorn, a dream that's burst on the drop: shattered into an array of drawn-out bass shards and shimmering sine wobbles. It's big and forebodes the rest of the release.
Review: Shouts to all the lifetime skankers! Jayline is here for you... "Eternal" pays homage to those ravers who will never stop with this savage quartet of insomnia anthems. The title track lays down the message. Big gritty riff, paranoid voices and a ferociousness we've come to expect from the Midland murker. Elsewhere "E-115" takes us deeper down a bassline rabbit hole with a big drone bass and more twisted humanised elements while "Stupid" is pure space-age minimal menace with growling bass textures and more vocal prangs matching the bangs. Finally we hit the deep wobbles and Bristolian flavours of "Nothing Will Be The Same". Think early 2000s but 2020 class, Jayline has smashed it right here.
Review: Liondub International's 10 year celebrations continue with a sense-shocking body slam into the future of the label and its ever-growing family of talented artists. Hitting hard like the label's ever-on-point Street Series, the rollcall reads like a who's who in gully talent: Dutta, Bou, Jayline, Vital, BlckHry and loads more. Whether you want to be completely twisted and spat back out by a brass section (Pharoah's "Fire In The Hole") you'd prefer to be hoovered by a jet engine then shot up into the stars (Jayline's "1408") or you're more into the idea of being rattled around in a big tin bassline can (Danny The WildChild's "Body Moves") this future shock has every physical experience contemporary (but heavily rooted) drum & bass can offer. And there's even more to come. Big up Liondub!
Review: Liondub are celebrating a decade of existence and they're doing a three-part compilation series covering the past, present and future of the label. By definition, then, these series' feature plenty of talent from all across the spectrum and time period of the genre. One of our favourite of the 26 cuts is Bou's VIP of Keep Away, a deliciously double-bass infused number that is both funky and heavy, the ideal combination, and he's flipped up the arrangement here with some precisely placed note changes. There are also features from Vital, Euphonique, Dutta, Marcus Visionary and more, with the overall vibe being one of toughness and power. Top stuff.
Review: Lion Dub have reached a decade of activity. A decade! To put it in perspective, if someone was born the year Liondub started, they're about to enter high school/secondary school. It's a crazy achievement and one matched by the craziness of the music they have on offer to celebrate, a four-part journey through their past, present and future. This instalment is all about their past and it's exemplified best by Serum's VIP of Sound The Alarm, a Liondub classic, which Serum has flipped into a characteristically badboy, stabbing little roller. The vocals float above in a haze of reggae smoke, whilst the beat pulsates below. Awesome stuff.
Review: What do the words 'Undergound' and 'Major' mean to you, in combination? To us they allude to a sound that's both big and made for the club, the sort of tones which blow up the dance every day of the week around the world. Jayline has been responsible for a few in the past and this time is no different, with a stellar release on Underground Major Audio, featuring the vocals of Champian.'Run Dis Show' is the title track and it's a wicked little skipper, Champian hovers above and Jayline murks the bassline beneath.
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