Review: Now this is a collection we can tell has been in the making for a hot minute, as Vandull, one of Nottingham's finest mic controllers, steps up on Deep Dark & Dangerous for four original dubstep vocals. We begin with the super-stuttered percussive chops and eastern-inspired woodwind of 'Shh' alongside Hypho, which does the job of kicking the EP off with a high energy level. From here, Angelic Root arrives to provide the super unorthodox instrumental backdrop of 'Red Moon', within which we hear Vandull's vocals sent through a serious amount of processing with some wicked results, before Cartridge ups the pace on the half-time drives of 'Soulsearch', allowing Vandull to explore a different range of performance styles. Finally, Katch steps up on production duty for 'DUM', a haunted combination of dissonant synthetics and warbling LFO splutters, giving us a very fun outro track to this wicked collection.
Review: The Ternion Sound crew are back in business, and as ever with a Manuka release, they have this time come at the EP building process with something a little bit different in mind. We begin with a breaks-inspired epic with 'The Summoning', a gorgeous display of rhythmic prowess and top quality drum arrangement, delivering an extra dash of flavour through it's spacey pad harmonics in the upper frequencies. Next, Vandull jumps onto the tour bus for a wicked vocal collaboration of 'Watch', unleashing a devilish display of high energy lyricism and rave-ready flows atop another breaksy driver of an instrumental. From here, we hear a more interesting twist on the breaksy sound as a heavily pitched vocal line takes a lead role alongside more nostalgic chord progressions on 'Just Want U Close', before the Benga-like bleeps and eerie pad textures of 'Illusory Contours' see out the EP with a dash of dubstep flavour for good measure.
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