Review: As ever with Moonshine Recordings, they have delivered us a seriously top notch selection as they unveil sixteen tracks of sweet reggae bliss. We have one of a line up on the table as we see names such as G Roots, Frenk Dublin, Blind Prophet, Adam Prescott and more throw us contributions as rootsy flavours are given a 2019 face lift. There are some clear standouts from this work, despite all sixteen tracks being absolute show stoppers, including 6Blocc & General Jah Mikey's system-ready stomper 'Too Rude' and the euphoric horn manoeuvres of 'Enchanted Dub' from Halcyonic, G Roots, Digid & Vale. The whole project is excellent, and we are super stoked to have it available here at Juno Download.
Review: As always when looking at a new one from Locus Sound, we are expecting a combination of innovation and nostalgia, a theme they have running deep through their catalogue. They welcome Roy Bar for a wonderful six track journey, kicking off with the wavy synthesizer intricacies and choppy drumlines of title track 'Icarus', before we dive into the spacey breakbeat action of 'Hemlock Riddim' and slower-paced halftime rhythms of 'Pineapple Kush', featuring a memorable vocal from Axel Holy'. Next, 'IFYB' provides us with some moogy garage flavour, with the pleasing percussive layers and moody vibe of 'Growler' coming closely after. Finally, the techy D&B manoeuvres of 'You Touched My Mind' combine choppy vocal inputs with sharpened drum licks for a very interesting finale indeed.
Review: Coming through with his second bullet of 2016, dubstep cat Lenkemz bursts through our charts with his usual oddity and aggression, a mixture of characteristics which is often met with fear by regular, everyday citizens. But, what this producer does on his tracks is also hugely exciting, and just that little bit terrifying; let's not even get into the intro, because that's a different argument altogether, but "Soup" wastes no time in getting its point across with a stepping, broken rhythm and some truly cavernous sonics, whereas "Oh No Oh No" resembles something of a hip-hop hybrid, the evil spawn of an MPC jam gone wrong, and "Tree Daze" offers a completely different sort of sonic formula that sounds like nothing we've hear from Lenkemz before. Last but certainly not least, "All Of Them Had Teeth" offers a bizarre, molecular arrangement that somehow manages to stay in place and travel across ix minutes of pure leftfield oddity.
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