Review: War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing... Except the outstanding Jungle Wars concept from DJ Hybrid's Deep In The Jungle camp. Nothing but pure fire from across the board as each artist works hard to bring their heaviest cuts and sharpest breaks to the ring. Mixed up by Mrs Magoo (who also collaborates on the track 'Big Bout Ya') the whole vibe and energy of this collection hits harder than 100 Fantazias. Highlights include Conrad Subs' super-ravey 'Wildstyle', Euphonique's 'No Problem', ODF's piano-slapping 'Good Times' and Plasmator's lesson in ruffness 'Bad Boy Sound'. Show us your war face!
Review: What a fabulous box of treats to open as Liquid Drops move into their 10 year anniversary faze, celebrating that wonderful achievement with an even more wonderful collection of 22 hazey rollers. The liquid sound has become such a vast expanse for producers to explore, with this release being a great showcasing and representation of the liquid sound as a whole. Featuring the likes of Impression, Greekboy, MSdoS, Numeric Space and many more, the tracklisting is stacked with angelic episodes, entering into a spacey realm of blissful harmonic structure the further into the project we dive. For us, the clear stand outs of course include the almost game-theme-like bassline of Fishy & Antony G's 'Winter Skies', which despite its delicate nature packs a major low-ended punch. Next to this, the jazzy riffs of Soulec's 'Your Time Is Up', and stunning soundscapes of Twintone's 'Bound & Branches' also make our list of favourites, but we would genuinely recommend listening to the full project to appreciate it's true sonic beauty.
Review: Deep in the Jungle continue their onwards march with this, the seventh edition in their widely acclaimed Anthems series, a compilation that always finds the ideal mix of current and future talent to showcase. In the case of the former, well-travelled producers Epicentre and Kumarachi roll things out and tear them down on 'Light Em Up', which features a gnarly array of interlinked bass nodes and torn low frequency sonics, al underpinned by a percussion section that's the perfect blend of rusty and sharp. New talent emerges in the form of Trobe and Mirage, who have their first label release with '89', although you wouldn't have guessed it based off this tune's razor clean percussive edge and expert use of space, a hard thing to get right and one this pair blow out the water here. Rave samples, expansive basslines and a synth arrangement you won't be able to shake - unmissable. 34 tracks later and Deep in the Jungle have nailed every single one of them - big ups.
Review: MsDOS is one of the most long-standing liquid producers in the scene, and he's someone who has been around the block more times than you can really count, with an endless amount of releases across a host of labels. Soul Deep is the host this time and it's for his Barcelona LP, as part of the label's long-running Artist Spotlight series. It's chock a block with funky, light hearted tones set to a running pace and we especially dig 'Silicon Valley', a synthy number which will stab its way into your heart - not literally. Lovely music on this one.
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