Review: Doctor Jeep (is that a Sisters Of Mercy reference?) has been kicking around for a couple of years now, dropping bona fide beats for labels like Hot Mum, Trouble & Bass, Tumble Audio and now Vancouver's infectious Aufect Recordings. It's all about the wobble on this EP, working to huge effect on the bell chiming "Tx", while opener "Dissociate" is proper, slimy basement rave material; 808 percussion on overdrive to spiralling effect. Remixes come in from Levrige who turns in more of a jungle rework, while Subcorr serves up some broken beat techno, kinda like early Pangaea. Furthermore, Greazus works in breathy vocals and transforms the bells of "Tx" into tripped out drips of tonal flux.
Review: Aside from being a self-described 'guy from Canada', there's not much more we know about VLsonn (except his real name - Vlad Sonn). What we do know of course is that Vlad has a mean line in creepy, spooky beats. "Dronology" features moombahton-style beats married to haunted, gothy synthlines that wouldn't be out of place on an early Gary Numan record. "Stray" is slower, a messed up retro swing jam with don't-go-there-issues and finally "Venomous" lays on some extra heavy beats, warped vocals and still makes room for those ghostly synths again.
Review: Having recently released a series of killer remixes of other producers, Canadian bass troubadour, Bassmynt, is back with his own release. Clearly keeping it lean and mean, we get just two tracks here, but it's all about quality rather than quantity. Beginning with a bled-out filtered intro, "Blind Night", soon explodes with a bouncy, heavily affected electronic bassline and clickey beats. "Keep It Pretty" keeps it deep and dubby, with slo-mo beats, arpeggiated keyboards and positively haunting synths.
Review: It's true to say that genres in dance music really are melting away at the moment. With its clippity-clop rhythms, velvety pads and melodic vocals, "Heat Wave" is a warm blend of spacey synth-pop and house. Bassmynt's 'Rain' remix, takes the tune round Burial's for a night in with a broken synth, before Reilly's Indian Summer mix takes it out for a bit of thumping-jazz clubbing (yes, a new genre for us too!). "Buried" is an intriguing mix of doomy, bass-heavy tuneage and ecstatic gospel that is given a mangled garage makeover by HxDB.
Review: Hailing from Canada, Bassmynt is yet another producer to add to the long line of Canadians doing great things in the world of bass music. Opener "Saturn" perfectly encapsulates his style; mixing the swing of garage, the forward thrust of solid house and the punch of techno, its characterised by its piercing stabs, clipped vocals and thudding beats. "Your Secret" takes a somewhat gentler approach combining his signature elements with a rush of warm chords, while the descending arpeggio and cavernous grime aesthetics of "Pitch Fork" sound like some lost Night Slugs release. Remix support provided by Visionn, who transforms Saturn into a wiry rhythm machine, and Silvermayne, who delivers a brittle footwork version.
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