Review: This latest helping of futuristic goodness from the Top Drawer Digital team sees them dive into their third full length compilation drop, once again expanding the 'Abstractions' series with a solid helping of new school breakbeat flavour. Featuring 36 creations, this selection is a DJ's secret weapon for certain, with the likes of Kefford, Sub Fusion, Outrage, Sanxion, S.U.R.E and Nyxen alongside many more delivering top quality additions to the track listing. For us, this is a project best absorbed through the attached continuous DJ MIX, but our standouts would have to include the brain-boggling wave synth work of The Rumblist's 'Mind Blown', alongside the more throwback metallic dinks of Lucas's 'Light & High Beauty' original. Sensational stuff from all involved.
Review: As far as labels go, there aren't many who have been floating around the bass music scene for as long as Future Follower Records. It seems that they have a point to prove here as they unveil an absolute goliath of a project, featuring fifty stunning original creations, packing a perfectly processed punch to round out 2019. The project as a whole finds itself landing between bass, breaks and garage, with some incredibly catchy productions involved, including Dephex's warbling 'Warfare', the super metallic shuffles inside the Bean VIP mix of 9TRANE's 'Heard Me' and the bass blasts of DubReaper's 'Ask Me'. There is something for everyone on this massive selection, giving the Future Follower camp a perfect send off to 2019.
Review: Northampton's king of future jungle-bass-rave Ritchie Kellingray is back with a new long player, Outrageous, under his Strange Rollers moniker. It's a meaty old listen too with a variety of urban bass sounds all cooked up in the roasting dish, through the piano hardcore of opener "Dance With Me", the boomy dub-hop of "Follow", the DnB-meets-reggae instrumental "Sweet Reggae Music" and the deep Enigma-goes-rave mystic swirls of "Broken Glass".
Review: NSB Radio faves Definition celebrate the big five-oh with this bass behemoth, and the world is at once a better place. Oozing filth from familiar faces and a few freshies, this entire collection is seeped in breakbeat beauty. With future-gazing heroics and heritage nods alike, each one of these cuts is a dancefloor blunderbuss. From Eddie Voyager's rusted amen assault "My Way" to Manu Twister's psychedelic shock-out "8-Bits", this bangs and twangs with all the best attributes that shaped breakbeat in the first place while looking firmly forward. Here's to another 50 releases.
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