Review: The best Welsh label in the game - as chosen by UKF this year - are back in the business with a properly sick VA LP, one which takes a bunch of the artists in their orbit and provides a platform for them to show off their untapped potential. Rantik steps up with 'Hear My Rhythm' and expertly weaves hypnotic percussive patterns around punching kicks and menacing vocal lines, a superb arrangement that's topped off by a gorgeously dark bassline with a core of solid steel. Label regular Hexa kills it with the relentlessness of 'Mirages', and 'Losing Sleep' by Division is the archetypal minimal roller. This album is stripped back, techy to its heart and a glimpse into the future of drum and bass. Special.
Review: Incurzion are a supremely underrated Welsh label who release utterly sublime minimal drum & bass, their output is in a similar vein to Flexout or Overview's and it's the work they do supporting smaller acts is seriously commendable. This time it's the turn of French producer Oxius, and he's pulled something special out of the bad with Defective, a five-part exploration of minimal sonics which is delectable in its precision and ambitious in its scope. The title track is unreal, with inch perfect sound design and a gravelling, throaty approach to stringing low frequencies together into a cohesive whole - fantastic work.
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