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Benny's back on his spiritual slapping ground; after a string of releases on the likes of Drum&BassArena, Mac 2 and Metalheadz, he's returned to Shimon's Audioporn where it all began. As with every cut he's given us in the last three years, both cuts tickle hard. "Horizon" stares out into the endless void of the cosmos with stark hollow notes peppering the crunchy, precision mixed drums. "Thunder Slap", which has been doing the rounds on dub among key roller merchants, brings up the rear with even more groaning, moaning, droning action. Pure fog horn fury... Ain't nobody crushing it like Benny L right now.
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Seriously respected for his abilities in the studio as much as his stage presence, Coppa's status is golden across the game. And he's about to show exactly who shiny that gold is with his new album "Poetry In Motion". Courtesy of Shimon's Audioporn, it features a premiership producer rollcall and it begins here with man of the moment Benny L. Hitting Coppa with another signature low blow, his moody fog is sliced through by Coppa's direct flow. "Bring War" murks up the mix even more as Shimon and Trimer lay down a wretchedly sparse groove that rumbles and shimmers in equal measure. Pure poetry; we can't wait to hear the whole album.
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It's time! Audioporn tear into their tenth year with a jaw-breaking album from one of the most versatile and in-demand MCs in the game: Coppa. The follow up to 2015's Act Of Aggression on his own Comanche imprint, Poetry In Motion features some seriously big names across all subgenres: Benny L, Alibi, Malaky, Gydra, L 33, Saxxon, Bass Brothers, Dexcell, NCT and of course Current Value and Madface who provide the next two sampler tracks. The former gets wild with the drums and a skanked-packed dancehall twist while the latter brings on a heady, sweaty neuro heat with more techno-risers than a sleepover at Dubfire's yard. Bring on the album!
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One of the most consistent studio MCs in the game after DRS, Coppa follows up his debut album An Act Of Aggression with this impressive sophomore on Audioporn. Flexing a much broader style with a wider range of artists, it's the sound of an MC finding his sound and opening his soul. From the moment the Benny L-powered "Skanka" lights the fire, it's a roller coaster to the very end: "Reasons To Survive" and "Security" get emotional and show a delicate nature while "Brainwashed" and "Much To Them" hit the soul with underground rolling prowess. Then you have the all-out slayers such as the nutty "Bring War" with label boss Shimon and right hand man Trimmer. Dig deep and digest, there's a lot to take in here. Coppa's just levelled up in a massive way.
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Aussie hip-hopper, Dub FX, recently funded the release of new album Theory Of Harmony through crowdsourcing. So well did he do in fact that he was enabled to release a follow up remix album too. Here the title track gets reworked in contrasting styles with Krafty Kuts giving it an old skool, daisy age hip-house spin and James Marvel & Hypoxia taking things into harsher, throbbing DnB territory.
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Audioporn turn out a behemoth remix compilation in honour of Dub FX's 2013 album Theory Of Harmony, and there's more here than what you'll probably be able to get through. At 19 tracks in total there's a variety of styles to experience, which begins with the filter dub of James Marvel and Hypoxis'a remix to "Back To Basics", and equally tear out is Benny L's deconstruction of "Concord". Dancehall vibes abound on Champion's interpretation to "Don't Give Up", while if you look a little further down the compilation you'll find some progressive vocal house in Gaudi's take on "Concord", and then there's album highlight, Krafty Kuts's hip hop rejig to "Back To Basics".
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Fourward brings his electro-tinged take on D&B to the Audioporn imprint for one exciting rollercoaster ride in the All That Matters EP. Getting things off to a rip-roaring start is the title track, which is a cartoonish cut with punchy electro-house beats, buckets of energy and punctuated by zeitgeist vocals. "Gone (feat. Katie's Ambition)" takes things on a slightly less exuberant tip with polished vocal, uplifting melodies and ticking breaks. "Steady State" takes us in yet another direction with more tech-ed up beats juxtaposed against tinkling piano melodies, and then there's concluding piece "Rave" which does exactly what it says on the tin in a flurry of tear out dancefloor fury.
