Review: Tom Middleton's new project Sound Of The Cosmos is a far-reaching trip to the most fertile fringes of electronic music's fore. We kick off with a stripped back, jukey take on the Chicago sound as Silkie, Distal & Mite get heavy on the splices and dices. Jabru, meanwhile, gets his twinkle on as we re-explore the chill out rooms of the mid '90s. Elsewhere VVV tinkers with the dustiest, scratchiest of samples to conjure a beatless masterpiece, Forgold gets razor sharp with precision steps while Sapience takes two-step to murderous levels of newness with sub aquatic sounds ricocheting against each other to mesmerising effect.
Review: Rita Maia is currently a busy woman, presenting radio (including a weekly Resonance FM show also called Sine Of The Times), DJing everywhere (aside from holding down a residency at the Notting Hill Arts Club) and now releasing albums too! This 11-song collection isn't a mix album per se, although the tracks do cleverly flow together. The overall vibe is gentle, almost brittle, micro-house-meets broken beat: perfect for hazy post-club mornings. Highlights include the teardrop beats of Dfranklin's "Whole", the melancholic rain-soaked 2-step of VVV's "Lost & Found" and the tropical comedown of BD1982's "The Wave Chamber".
Review: It can sometimes be tricky getting the right blend on a remix package, but Blind Colour seem to have pulled it off here. Ink Project's decidedly downtempo "Rewind Forward Replay" is pulled in many different directions, all of which enhance the dreamy original. VVV opts for simmering, reverb-laden strings and loose, subtle two-step garage rhythms on his haunting remake and Kulture delivers a kind of trip-hop/dubstep fusion. Memotone does his best impression of Mount Kimbie on a delightfully adventurous take, before Tom Eales offers up a straightforward house take on the EP's most obviously dancefloor-centric version.
Review: It's been a long time coming but Fortified Audio finally deliver the goods and VVV drops his debut album. The Texan producer may not be at the epicentre of the bass music zeitgeist physically, but his sound captures quite succinctly where garage informed beats are at right now. R&B vocal rips get sliced and scattered across punchy, well-polished productions heavy on the crafty edits and diverse sound sources, delivered with such panache it's hard to find fault with this highly accomplished set. Well worth checking out.
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