Review: As a label and forward thinking underground music project, we are always excited to see new music hit our shelves from the Bass=Win team. This time they have another fresh present for us courtesy of Demon Tweaks & Coolman who combined in serious style here for 'Hold On'. This one takes on the form of a neuroticly futurstic UKG roller, topped with crispy effected vocals and choppy bass leads. We are also gifted a very cool remix addition from man of the minute: Albzzy, who reworks the track into his signature stripped back bassline style, adding an additional touch of finesse.
Review: Terry Hooligan and Rico Tubbs' Bass = Win imprint invites Sheffield's Steve Brooke to the late night party and, like all good sesh gremlins, he's come packing a-grade supplies. "Tragic Dream" hits with a deep smoky bass prang feel, "Get Excited" sexes up the dance with just a little sinister undertone while the slinky, chunk-jacked "I Realized" gets you so buzzed up you won't sleep for a week. We're all winners here.
Review: Rico Tubbs & Terry Hooligan are the Bass=Win Soundsystem. The story goes that while touring in the early days of seminal act Atomic Hooligan, Terry met Rico in his native Finland and they hit it off immediately. The Bass=Win Soundsystem is here and it's massive! This is their first collaboration in recorded form but this EP marks a special point in history for both the guys and their label. The EP draws heavily from garage, rave, breakbeat and bass music. There is three versions of "One and Only" whilst "Bring The Horns" does exactly that.
Review: Heavy ghetto vibez be rulin' here on this deep brain crushing EP from this forward-looking Yorkshire crew. The EP features four bruising cuts that don't mess about and don't do boring neither. Opener "Once Again" features chants, US strip bar footwork rhythms and even a rave-era breakdown. Elsewhere "Hotter Than Hot" features hypey beats and wobble-informed basslines, Original Big Up lays the Amen breaks on thick and fast, mixing it up with some dubby Rasta attitude. Lastly "Tun It Up" references melodic hardcore, with hands-in-air keyboard melodies and stop/start breaks.
Review: Ralston isn't exactly a fledgling artist anymore; his music has been getting plenty of attention from the right kind of circles, and each new release sees the producer mature in both style and ideas. This new EP for Bass=Win is spear-headed by the excellent "Choose One", a garage banger with a subtle jungle sensibility, and this is followed by the equally magnificent, albeit more aggressive tones of "Pump Up". "Twilight Zone" has that inimitable UK garage swing, but it's a house track through and through, supported by a bouncier, more bass-fuelled VIP mix. BIG!
Review: Long-time partners in crime: Rico coaxes Terry back into the studio for a straight-up party jam comprising "Big Fun" style keys, MC samples, horns, synth horns and a rip-your-arm-off bass house drop. "One & Only" continues the contrast game with its crafty balance of sassy vocal UKG soul and early 2000s breakbeat garage badness. Complete with chicken-dancing 4x4 bass womp and detuned synth versions, they've got every corner covered.
Review: Rico Tubbs runs London's Bass=Win with Terry Hooligan and returns with more street level low end theories here on the Re-Animated EP: a bunch of stellar remixes from their most recent releases. Starting off with the bombastic, ragga-inflected Reese devastation of "Bullets" (Mij Mack remix), "Ghost Rider" (Papuga remix) goes for some modern funky house flavour in the tradition of the legendary Michael Gray (Full Intention) while "Rolling Proper" (YYVNG remix) does exactly what it says on the tin with this deep down and dirty UK funky throwdown.
Review: Forward-looking Sheffield duo Future Wildstyle tore up the rulebook when they recently began producing together. The results have created quite a stir and one thing they really make a point on is that the tunes have got to work off the dancefloor too. With the Hyper Vibes EP they didn't make 'straight up club bangers', providing instead three killer tunes that work everywhere. The title track features mean and moody start-stop beats and jazzy piano stabs, the DnB-influenced "Bad Man" lays on the dub pretty thick and finally "Make Them Bounce" is a rip-snorting j-tek monster. Boom!
Review: You know those really stompy 4/4 bass tunes that could have easily been produced since 2005 and always work on the dancefloor? This. Strutting speed garage drums, a paranoid bassline that rises and rises without a care for your sanity and cheeky vocal chops ensure this Finnish creation's golden bullet status. Hey, it's not called "Big Bad Tune" for no reason. Remix-wise Matt Craig softens the blow just a tad for groove's sake while Teknian & ZeroZero and 1point5 lay down rubs of "Red Sun". The former deliver a crisp D&B refix, the latter go all My Nu Leng with a heads-down warpy house twist. Badness.
Review: Bass=Win has been Terry Hooligan's baby since day one, a label on which he has released chest-pounding bass music both from himself and new and exciting talents from around the globe. This time he's scouted another debutant, Alisky, and the young 'un comes through with "Without Your Touch", a pseudo house joint sparked into life by the bubbly bassline surrounding it and the vocals emanating from its core. There are two remixes within, the first being a wobbly garage tune-up by Rico Tubbs, and the second one sees PRXZM twist the house out into storming, machine-like dubstep with plenty of fire power.
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