Review: Toolroom Vaults Vol 5 reprises secret weapons, hidden gems and club heaters that have been staples in label boss Mark Knight's sets for over 10 years, shaping up to be another choice album for many crate-diggers alike. Highlights include legend Harry Romero & Alex Fioretti's stomping heads-down groove "Think Outside The Box", Rene Amesz & Jasper Clash's tribal house workout "Phatty", Matt Smallwood serving up some late night mood music on the deep cut "How Does It Feel" and D-Formation & Solarc's uplifting house epic "In Your Mind" among many more.
Review: New Year doesn't officially kick off until Viper smack you silly with their yearly "Drum & Bass Annual". 2017's edition smacks even harder than usual with no less than 10 exclusives including a Culture Shock/Dimension style roll out from Misfit, Halflight's "Communication Failure" that has enough power to cause a civil war and North Base's "Woman" that has so much seductive soul power to cause a mess in your trousers. Elsewhere The Voss & NC-17 pay respect to the Book Of The Bad on "Mojave" and Blaine Stranger sends you off to cosmoses unknown on "By Your Side". And that's just a handful of the unreleased cuts amid some of the label's biggest releases in recent times.
Review: Previously spotted on Program, Bristolian badman Loko steps over to Viper for his first single in well over a year. "What You Do To Me" is laced with a classical Phantasy-style rave vocal that's clearly sung rather than sampled as you can really feel the full bodied warmth and soul of it. "Time Flies" is a much darker, late night session that wouldn't go amiss on Renegade Hardware. Proof that Viper are still very much in touch with their underground roots.
Review: 48 tracks, six exclusives, two mixes: Viper have already developed a strong-armed reputation for compilations over the years but this is taking things to a whole new ridiculous level. Investigating bass music's widest corners, the heady concoction of tracks ranges from premier league bangers (Wilko's remix of The Prodigy, Noisia & The Upbeats "Dead Limit", Andy C's "New Era VIP") to fresh-baked underground rollers (Dossa, Locuzzed and NC-17's drone-jump buzz-cut "Ninja", Dub Elements' deep space neuro-edged shredder "Metaverse") to lower tempo tear-ups from the likes of Pex L, Au5, Flux Pavilion and Doctor P and Specimen A. With heaps more in between, this accurately reflects just how exciting and closely linked all bass-laced genres are right now. Venomously immense.
Review: Twenty eight tracks, 12 exclusives, one mix... Viper smash down the doors of 2016 with an all-encompassing document that portrays D&B broadest, baddest landscape in great detail. Among the out-and-out classics of last year ("Dead Limit", "City Of Gold") you'll find some of Viper's most exciting smashes of the last few years ("One's Own", "What R U Doing?" "Universes") and, most importantly, 12 tracks that have yet to be releases before... Ranging from J Majik's muscular, monster-stomping return ("Drop It") to Toronto Is Broken's savage, skippy tech funker "Zero One", Viper aren't messing around at all on this one.
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