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Review: Nick The Lot and Amplify with MC Spyda and Blacks on mic duties... It's safe to say that Basslayerz are going in HARD on this talent-packed collection. Two cuts, two versions, four reasons to turns your bass face inside out, both 'Slow Jam' and 'Guns Of Navarone' are primed for peaktime damage. 'Slow Jam' is all about that gurgling, stretched out bass and twisted sense of tension while 'Guns Of Navarone' hits with such gung-ho vibe you'll be singing along with Spyda before you even know the words!
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Aries, Gold Dubs, Bladerunner, Navigator & Cheshire Cat - "Bust Them Up" (Kleu remix) - (5:13) 175 BPM
Played by: AGENT K
Review: Kleu takes charge of the latest Welcome To The Jungle compilation with an explosive collection of tracks that are sure to set any dancefloor alight. With over 50 hand-picked drum and bass selections from top artists such as Conrad Subs, Benny Page, Veak, Gold Dubs, Bladerunner, and the Jungle Cakes catalogue, as well as Kleu's own unreleased tracks, this album is a must-have for any fan of the genre. Notable tracks include the hard-hitting 'Dragon Soop', a tribute to the popular off-license drink with punchy drums, airy pads, and a fierce bassline, the feel-good rave anthem 'Got The Feeling' featuring bouncy piano melodies and catchy vocal samples, and the energetic 'Shake Ya Body Like Dis' with its hyped-up vocals, heavy bass hits, and weighty low end. Kleu's selection is flawless and guaranteed to keep the ravers happy. Don't miss out on adding Welcome To The Jungle to your collection!
Played by: Juno Recommends Drum & Bass
Review: Hold tight the two shoes crew, Nick The Lot and Amplify have something very special for you... 'Goodie Goodie' bigs up the gyal dem over one of the grottiest basslines you'll hear this side of your local Happy Shopper. Elsewhere we're treated to twisted funk on 'Closed Eyes', we're throttled by bass textures and unrelenting kicks on 'Nothing Like It' before 'Get High' sends us packing on beautiful cloud of smoke. Goodie times!
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Review: Nick The Lot takes us all to his own version of Disneyland right here with 'Magical Kingdom'. Instead of talking animals, zippy rides and fancy palaces, it's all about the bare faced brutalism and brazen sonic savageness. Everything from the jagged edges and strange harmonics on 'Anything You Say' to the pure filth and freakery of 'The Experiment' showcases how on-point Nick is right now with his sound and energy. Essential.
Played by: Brian Brainstorm
Played by: Juno Recommends Drum & Bass
Review: Exclamations at the ready... Nick The Lot jumps aboard the good ship Dub Shotta with three bangers so tightly coiled and full of venom they're likely to illicit a severe slew of 'Oh My Gosh' remark from you, your dancefloor and your nan. The title track is all about the back-and-forth between the squeeky top line and the razzy, distorted low end, 'Inner Pickle' takes NTL's savage stew to a much darker place of tension before 'Radio Active Light' finishes off the EP with a full-flavoured chaotic tear-up. Oh gosh indeed.
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Review: Gradient maintain their benchmark-setting pace, energy and creativity with the latest instalment of their 'Momentum' collection featuring an all-star cast of family members and founders. The message is clear from the off as Filthy Habits 'Street Scum' gets slappy with its energy and technoid aesthetic and L3MMY DUBZ adds to the intensity and fever with the totally twisted 'Punch Line'. Other stand-out cuts that demand attention include the Gradient bosses Metal Work and Amplify getting sleazy and hazy on 'Nothing To Say' and Toxinate's super grizzled and switchy 'Ride Of Die'. Momentous.
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Played by: Juno Recommends Drum & Bass
Review: 50 tracks!! Count them - FIFTY tracks - right here from the Sub-liminal Recordings crew as the label looks back over the last few years of massive bangers. Pure gully science from across the board, if you've missed out on any of their releases or you've only just tuned into the sounds of Agro's longstanding label then this is the place. Highlights come in all shapes and sizes but only a madman would miss out ridiculous heavyweight cuts likes Shayper's 'Burnt Gerbil', Prestige's wonked out weirdo funk-up 'Computer Killer', Xav's old school charmer 'Crisp Packet'. These are just three crucial examples. Dig deep!
Review: Hey crime fans! Fancy breaking some laws? Then look no further as Nick The Lot is back with more legal wrangles than Charlie Sheen. 'Super Criminals' breaks the laws of normality with its crazed high frequency flip-outs, 'Shook' breaks the law of gravity with its heavyweight stomps, 'The Other Room' breaks the law of good manners as it pukes into your ears, 'Fearmonger' breaks the law of hypeness with its ridiculous riff, 'Subtle Approach' breaks the law surprises with its sudden twists and guttural turns and finally 'A Fine Mess' breaks the law of stupidity with its totally nonsensical bass textures. Life sentences galore; may Nick The Lot's crime spree continue!
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Review: From the holy to the moly with all levels of WTF and crikey along the way; Gradient have just levelled up with this turbo-charged VA that celebrates how exciting the new generation of drum & bass is right now. So many talents, not enough time or space to list; just press play, dig deep and you'll find untold bangers for days. From Harley D to Warhead to Amplify via Nick The Lot, Jenks, Scurrow, Flint, Fanatics and the bossman Metal Work, this is a huge collection that's right on the cutting edge of the club D&B sound. Fusing elements of jump-up, tech and good old fashioned dancefloor bangers, these are the sturdiest foundations from which future careers will be built on.
Played by: Juno Recommends Drum & Bass
Review: Why pack a torch and worry about tripping over things in the dark when you can just commit 'Day Light Robbery'? The Tories know this, Nick The Lot knows this, now you can too... Hike costs to the epically switched up bassline freakery of the title track, line your mates pockets to the sweet vocals and rubber ball bass of 'Dancehall Ting', line your own pockets to the hornets nest bassline stings of 'Green Light'. You need more incentives? Steal candy from babies to the space age grizzly funk of 'Rattletrap', rob the youth of their future to the bouncy bliss of 'Good Old Days' and discriminate to your hearts content to the wonky, dreamy funk of 'I've Been Wanting'. Or shut out the corrupt world and get deep into the sounds of one of drum & bass music's hardest working artists right now. Nick for prime minister.
Review: Tunes to make you go 'yoink!' Loveable rogue Nick The Lot is back and, in true Run Tingz spirit, he's making so much noise he's gone and woken the dead. Zombielicious highlights include the title track, which is up there as one of his most deliciously ridiculous tunes to date; 'Watch Your Block', a bubbling rattler that switches more bassline flavours than your mum's had lie-ins; 'Teleportation', a twisted jitterbug with more grizzlies than Yellowstone and glitchier than your dad's cracked copy of FL Studio and 'Let You Go', an alien infested freak-out with some of the most surreal sounds Nick The Lot has ever conjured. Boink.
Review: Stillz returns to Gradient with one of his biggest EPs so far. Paying tribute to all the sesh fallen soldiers, the title track pays homage to all those crews who can't find a lighter when they get home for the afters as Stillz and Nick The Lot go full ploughman with the kicks and glitches. Five more fire-ups follow, each one as hearty and heavy. Highlights include the Gino-level slams and slaps of 'Autopilot', the tense eeriness and raw energy of the drop on 'Defect' and the playful horn action of 'Jazz Music'. Rest in peace to all the lost lighters.
Played by: Juno Recommends Drum & Bass
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Review: Ask no questions, we'll tell you no lies... D&B's answer to Eastender's Nick Cotton (ask your dad) Nick The Lot pulls up to a layby with a whole load of hot stock. All factory fresh from the most exciting producers emerging in the last few years, everywhere you look he's flinging out unsolicited goodies: Pengo & Amplify's scatty, off beat wriggle-a-thon 'Rock The Rhyme', Drowzee's super grizzly grot-fest 'All Of You', the dark funk of Teezy's slinky slapper 'Provoke' and Nick's own off-the-wall firestarter 'Loose Cannon' are just some of the red-handed bangers on offer here. Grab them and become an accomplice. Crime pays!
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Played by: Juno Recommends Drum & Bass
Review: Sub-liminal brings an end to the year that was, going out all guns blazing with on Air Part 2 featuring a bunch of wicked VIPs. Label staple Agro serves up several collaborations on here with the likes of Mentah, Raz, Diligent Fingers and Ghxsty. There's also a few offerings by the ever reliable Yatuza; our pick being the wonky stepper of "Distance" with Master Error. Elsewhere, Pyro pops up a few times throughout and was in fine form on "Smithdown Bass" and Prestige handed in a couple of quality dubs with neurofunk cut "Logical" being our pick of the bunch.
Played by: Juno Recommends Drum & Bass
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Review: Burgling ain't easy! Neither is production for that matter, but Nick The Lot is very good at both and luckily he spends a lot more time in the studio than he does 'Gliding Through' your living room window these days, pinching your xBox. But if he did, this would be the soundtrack; a fun and funky sextet of filthy funk-ups ranging from the gritty bulbous bass and Hazard-like Q&A on the title track, to the epic jungle fills on 'There's Something' by way of the ultra-scattiness of 'Med Kit' and the icy glaciers of 'Alien Vessel'. Open wide, let's glide...
Played by: STRICTLY RAGGA JUNGLE
Review: Home invasion! Nick The Lot gathers you and your loved ones and throws you all in the cupboard while he frolics round your house doing things that will irk you in all kinds of ways; the militant growler 'Invasion' is the sound of him jumping on your bed with his shoes on, the squelchy funk of 'Buckle Up' is him moving your car seats and wing mirrors out of position, the golden rushes of 'Rougher Than' is him mixing your socks and pants draws up and the scatty laser firing 'Finally Appeared' is him tearing the last page out of every book you have out, then swapping them all around. Sound like fun? These are only a handful of highlights, there are many more things Nick would like to do.
Played by: Juno Recommends Drum & Bass
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Played by: Juno Recommends Drum & Bass
Review: Finally, an EP dedicated to your mum: 'Pear Shaped' is the latest in a recent slew of sickness from D&B's most treasured robber Nick The Lot. Delivered on his own imprint Pick The Lot, each of these four cuts hit with disgusting levels of energy and intensity. Highlights include the raffish growls on 'Pear Shaped', the stressed out AI voice and glitch-maxed twists on 'Dodgy Line', the rubber ball bassline and high levels of extreme slimy grot on 'A Living Nightmare' and the gutter-munching bassline and whimsical pipes on 'Witcraft'. Proper dark magic, go tell your ma.
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Review: As if firing out badness galore through their 'Connected' series wasn't quite enough action for a label that's barely been around 6 months, Amplify and Metal Work's Gradient levels up again with the massive 'Foundations' VA that's stacked to the top shelf with some of drum & bass music's finest upstarts and high risers. 15 tracks deep, highlights come in all shapes and sizes including the sensual textures and tones of D-Fuser's 'Sticky Situations', the madcap jazzy springs and splutters of Fanatics' 'Everyday', KL's revved up staccato sizzler 'Plain To See', Metal Work's rather glacial 'Cold As Ice' and Parallel's early D-Minds style 'Capital Crimes'. Killer through and through, 'Foundations' as strong as this are built to last.
Review: Nick The Lot is one of the masters of new school jump up, and his sounds always manage to stay creative amidst a very saturated market. He's back on his regular label, Grid Recordings, and this is another superb single. The a-side is gruff and gritty, with an underbelly of pure metallic fire that just pops out of the block in an extremely satisfying manner. 'Fader' is a squawker, a rough and tumble approach that kicks you up the backside and then some. Wicked.
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Agro, Devilman, DJ Hybrid, Kuedon & Bubzie - "Blazing The Fire" (DJ Hybrid instrumental mix) - (3:01) 175 BPM
Review: Sub-liminal take a moment to look back over almost six years of hard graft at the future talent coal face. Having been responsible for so many bangers from so many now household names, it's a mean feat boiling it down to this mere 50 heavyweight highlights. All the label's key names are on board; Guzi, Dreadnaught, Nick The Lot, Too Greezy, Kumo, Version, Vital, Pyro, Motiv and many more dust off their past heavers, hurters and head-slappers to reflect on everything Sub-liminal has stood for and encouraged so far. From the deeper, more subtle bubblers (Sam Harris - 'Coffee Machine') to the most outrageous funk-ups (Warhead - 'Cranked') this EP has everything. When the Riddim hits you, you can't say no...
Review: Everyone's favourite tea leaf returns, this time with a special release on Liondub International. Five tracks in total, all powered by his usual bulldozer charm and funk, this is one of this broadest EPs as we cross the gully board. From the sweet sultry vocals and soul of 'Holding Back' to the late 90s tear-up sound of 'Sound Business', Nick runs us through his highest and lowest emotions across the EP. Other highlights include the oddball off-beat growls and groans of 'Freak Show' and the warm as toast title track 'Bullet'. You're nicked son.
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Congo Natty, Rebel MC, Tenor Fly, Top Cat, General Levy, Tippa Irie, Sweetie Irie & Daddy Freddy - "UK Allstars" (Congo Natty meets Benny Page remix) - (4:54) 178 BPM
Gold Dubs & Selecta J-Man - "Champagne & Asparagus" (feat Cheshire Cat - original mix) - (6:15) 175 BPM
Deekline, Trigga, David Boomah, Specimen A & Navigator - "Duppy Destroyers" (dub mix) - (5:25) 174 BPM
Review: Jungle Cakes always tend to put out music that rests on the foundations of UK underground, the cross-over influences of soul, reggae, jungle and D&B. it's always a fresh sound and it always brings up connotations of Boomtown, free parties and sunny afternoons. This is a monster album curated by Aries and Kelvin 373, who have taken tracks both old and new to form a banging compilation. Bou nails it on 'Music Takes Me Higher', a rustic revisit to classic jungle sounds; Aries and Nicky Blackmarket roll things out in a tight way on 'Champion'; and Chimpo slams the brakes on 'DidDieDoThat'. We don't know the answer to that, but we do know this is fat. Big ups.
Navigator & Liondub - "Body Bang" (feat Junior Dangerous - Liondub & Jah Boogs remix) - (4:02) 176 BPM
Deekline, Brian Brainstorm & Specimen A - "Kill That Sound" (feat Sweetie Irie & Killa P) - (4:55) 174 BPM
Deekline, Ed Solo & Specimen A - "Let The Music Play" (feat Blackout JA - club mix) - (4:51) 174 BPM
Played by: Jamie Bostron
Played by: Juno Recommends Drum & Bass
Review: Nick The Lot is without a doubt one of the producers pioneering new and filthy ways to bend the jump up formula and this EP on Biological Beats is exactly that. Nick has taken the foghorn sound and bent it, distorted it, in all kinds of new directions and the results are absolutely heinous. It's a massive release and the title track is appropriately banging, with a spoken sample sitting above a monstrous bassline of gigantic proportions. 'Loose Ends' is skipping and grooovy, with stabby 303s punctuating its bottom line in a call and response with a grating, weapon of a bassline. 'No One Else' nails the percussion in sumptuosly satisfying form, before knifing you in the throat with ridiculous jump up stabs. It's a pattern repeated across the rest of the release - huge.