DJ Warden’s Bagged & Tagged Records is an up-and-coming London-based label that’s been committed to showcasing the grittier side of the drum and bass spectrum since 2018. From rollers to jump up, Bagged & Tagged has slapped out releases from the likes of: Total Recall, Ben Snow, Nu Elementz, Heist, Jappa, Vital, Guzi, D-Nasty, BlckHry and more.
Review: Roll up! Roll up! After a whole slew of releases on the likes of Grid, Klout, Shadow Demon and Zombie, Zeba crashes back to Bagged & Tagged with his biggest release to date: 'The Roll Up', an extensive trip into his abrasive-but-funky sound complete with a few cameo collabos with the likes of J Wilz and Mazie Walsh. Highlights include the uplifting riff and infectious bounce of 'Bumpa', the dark, grizzly funk of 'Take It Slow' and the emotional finale with Mazie Walsh 'Wasted'. And that's just half of this massive release. Big up Zeba.
Review: Bagged & Tagged continue to look back over past conquests, highlighting their bangers of yore and reminding us that music has a much longer lifespan than you might assume. This volume in particular brings together a great range of styles and sounds from across the UK spectrum as the likes of BlckHry, Kontakt, Guzi, Heist and Total Recall all get their past hurters polished up for the summer. Highlights include the church-like shimmers and energy of BlckHry's 'Our World', Heist's pounding shake-up of Vital & Phenom's 'Hoe Money' and the triumphant vibes of Total Recall's 'New Beginnings'. Tag a friend to tag a friend!
Review: It's been a great year for Bunnerz releases so far as he's delivered utter scuds on the likes of Invicta and Cave, now he returns to Bagged & Tagged with his biggest one of the year so far. The fiery energy and dark funk he's become known for is evident instantly on 'Demand & Supply' before things get trippy and weird with 'New York'. Elsewhere but 'Undercover' and 'Doom Raider' bring a bulldozer-like groove, Obbley joins the fray on the tense harmonics and pneumatic steps off 'Dark Behaviour' and 'Mask' concludes the EP with a little sprinkle of cosmic mischief and a Tyke-flavoured groove. Bag it.
The Force - "Born Evil" (Nu Elementz remix) - (4:23) 175 BPM
Vital - "Real Shit" - (4:21) 176 BPM
Total Recall - "Bubbles" - (3:44) 175 BPM
Review: Reload! Bagged & Tagged look back over the last few years of releases and handpick their most popular for this hot new series - 'Re-Tagged Stock'. First up are some of the most popular and heavily demanded tracks the UK label has ever known including the dynamic vocal drama of 'Pretend' with Bunnerz & Jappa, the insane melting bass tones of 'Rolls' from Zeba, Nu Elementz savage take on The Force's classic trad jump up bubbler 'Born Evil', Vital's bubbly hip-swinger 'Real Shit' and a gruff finale from Total Recall in the form of 'Bubbles'. Expect more best-of bundles to flow very soon.
Review: Harry Reader aka BlckHry, who some of you may know for his killer remix of "That Girl", returns for his second project on London-based Bagged & Tagged,, this time around featuring a weighty collaboration with Magenta titled "Bring It Back". The title track is a gnarly stepper that means serious business, the deeper vibe of "Love" is a more evocative vocal led cut, while more techstep awaits on "Got Too" and closing it out with the grime-infused roller "Our World".
Review: Celebrating the fact that many of us have come out of lockdown with a few extra pounds of Terry, Formula salutes the phatter folk of the land with this obese six-track EP on Bagged & Tagged. Flavours ranging from the chubby sci-fi bass lasers of 'Double Crossed' to the porky sub wobbles and heavy stench of 'Hoofs' via the blubbery off-beat savageness of 'Phat Man', there's plenty of weight to move us back on the floor this summer and shed some pounds. Comes complete with the chubby 'Neck Back' with Diligent Fingers. Fat.
Review: Listen mate, when Bruk calls you a bobble head, you better pay attention and pay respect. He doesn't just tell anyone their heads are made of bobbles. He's too busy in the studio cooking up serious flames like the ragga-touched, full-fire slap-about 'Maui Mowie' and the finger-clicking dark and jazzy swinger 'Captivate', or releasing on crucial labels like Bagged & Tagged, Audio Addict and By The Producer, to be flinging around observations unless they weren't completely necessary. So deal with it, you're a bobble head... And this whole gosh-darned gully EP is tailor made for you.
Review: Bag it, tag it, tell you mum about it; the B&T massive put together this 15 track collection to celebrate the label's 15th release and it's an all-out showcase of tomorrow's finest talent. Highlights fire from all sides; Ben Snow's 'Fire Iron' is a grunting staccato session of pure savagery, Refracta brings NFM-style melted bass to the fray on 'Embrace', Dunk & Teej get all mobster on us with 'Soprano', Parallel does his old school slap-about thing on 'Communications' and KL's 'Tension' is strong enough to blast us into the 23rd century. Pack your bags and your tags, you've pulled m8.
Review: Fair play it's been an impressive run from DJ Warden's Bagged & Tagged this year, despite the rona working its wicked way with 2020. Following massive EPs from the likes of Total Recall, BlckHry and Obbley & Maze the label now hits with its biggest release to date... An all-star remix EP featuring the likes of Heist, Nu Elementz, Slipz and D-Nasty. All off them given the green light to go nuts on some of the label's most distinctive cuts so far. Highlights include Heist's raucous harmonic twist on the bassline of Vital & Phenom's 'Hoe Money' and D-Nasty's skin-melting technoid riff. Disgusting. Bag this one right now.
Review: Welcome to the warped and wonderful world of Birmingham badman Zeba. His basslines melt around the beats, his sounds are woozy and the grooves knock you sideways; "Bank Rolls" is all about the trippy, misshapen tones and loose swaggering drums, "Bougle Bounce" rides with a wide menu of strange farty bass textures and deliciously clunky breaks while "Alien Bass" sharpen up the bass licks for more of a deadly laser effect. Finally we see him colliding with fellow Brum murker Warhead for epic screaming turbine bass climax "Walk The Walk". Come talk some talk...
Review: Total Recall is a producer we've featured quite a lot on this site before and it's because he has an impressive talent for producing gargling, powerful beats that hit hard and don't look back when they step over your stunned body. It makes sense that he's on Bagged & Tagged, then, as his Summons EP shows off the capabilities of both him and the label. The title track is the standout, a chopped-up amalgamation of energy and purpose, custom-built for the club and very much in tune with the strength of the scene at the moment. The rest of the release slaps as well - check it out.
Review: This release honestly doesn't mess around. It carries a serious sense of potency despite its clear lack of pretentious sophistication, because D&B of this type simply isn't about sophistication, it's about making something so filthy the audience won't even understand what hit them. Everyone on this release has certainly accomplished that here, I mean just have a listen to the rippling sines, percussive naughtiness and bassline badassery that is 'Get Some Juice', a beautifully spacious tune that still manages to make you feel like you've been attacked by a dog. This is a crazy release from start to finish.
Review: Bagged & Tagged are a regular here on Juno and for good reason, their proclivity for steadily releasing rough but energetic, whole-hearted cuts is strong and their small size doesn't prevent the release of top-quality music. They've roped in the Belgian crew for this one and 'Market' is the strongest on the release, with a Low Down Deep-esque feel to its cracking percussion and a torn, broken back end that rips across the range with style. The other 3 cuts go down a similar, wicked jump-up route and, if you like B&T, this is the release for you.
Review: Eazy is a producer we've featured quite a lot on this site before and it's because he has an impressive talent for producing gargling, powerful beats that hit hard and don't look back when they step over your stunned body. It makes sense that he's on Bagged & Tagged, then, as his Khufra EP shows off the capabilities of both him and the label. The title track is the standout, a chopped-up amalgamation of energy and purpose, custom-built for the club and very much in tune with the strength of the scene at the moment. The rest of the release slaps as well - check it out.
Review: Shadre & Salvage are back on the fast-moving train that is jump-up and once more, they've proven adept at bringing to the fore some forward-thinking sounds in that regard. They're a name we know and 'Makes Me Wanna Dance' - the title track to this release - is certainly a promising sign. Glitchy and with a satisfying sense of lagged out travel, this tune certainly bites hard but it does so in a fresh, unique manner. 'Equalize' is step-up in sophistication and nastiness, a snappy, stepping drum line pushing up into its metallic bottom line, this one is a proper creeper.
Review: Fresh from his Lion Dub shelling late last year, Kumo makes his debut on DJ Warden's burgeoning new label Bagged & Tagged with two slabs of pure gutter chomping sandpaper funk. "Hustle & Flow" creaks and groans under Endo's lyrical pressure before licking up a whole zoo of growls. "50 Grand Chain" flexes its chunky ropes with a grizzly bassline and kicks so thick they think the earth is flat. Get your hustle on...
Review: Barely a month has blasted past since The Force shoved us down a "Black Hole" and showed us his "Warlord" and already he's back and packing seriously gritty, riffy heat. "Scanner" is so sharpy and stinky it analyses your most personal date and spits it back at you with a message saying you need to do better in life while "Born Evil" is so despicable it takes you back to Clipz's house in 2002 and shoves you under the floorboards of his studio for 8 months with nothing to sustain yourself but dubplate lacquer. Feel The Force!
Review: Trafalgar's back on the 187 again, laser riffs are popping off, beats are swaggering like a load of lorries going over a rickety bridge and there's blood everywhere. You gonna clean it up or add to the body count? Your choice. "Afraid" takes us even deeper down Traf's tunnel with a mutated hardcore lead that twists in and out of a paranoid staccato riff. Deadly stuff as ever. Don't be square.
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