Review: The strength of dubstep worldwide is something truly special to behold, with this latest four tracker from Sectra on the wonderful Circle Vision providing us with yet more explosive flavour. We begin with the eerie, chiming melodic structures and lethal bass waves of 'Mystic Gate', followed by 'With Fright', a journey into some unexplored realms of distortion. Next up 'Scheming Symmetry' deploys an array of punching kick slaps and horror-core style synthesizer movement, before we finish up on the super glitchy, slightly unnerving soundscaped harmonies of 'Reaching Forward'. It's weird, it's wonderful and we love it!
Review: The team at Circle Vision have set out and made a serious statement with this one, as their 'Various Visions' series returns for It's second helping with four fresh originals from four of the coldest in the dubstep scene right about now. We begin with D-Operation Drop who lands a heavyweight punch in 'Fried Chicken' before man of the minute: Zygos appears with a percussive heavy piledriver in 'BAtte noir'. Next up, Hebbe arrives on the scene with a haunted episode of bitcrushed leads and floating subs on 'Sixes & Sevens', before Mrshi sees the EP out in style with his triplet-driven scorcher 'Biter'.
Review: Sukh Knight, an srtist not to be confused with the Cali hip-hop don, touches down on the Circle Vision imprint with five jaw-breaking slices of dubstep, and he sounds like he's in the mood to break some teeth along the way. "Scorpion" has a bass that will literally blow your canister off at high volumes, with both "Creation" and "First Contact" following upon that with different variations grizzly, distorted low frequencies. The remix comes from DJ Madd 160, who turns "Scorpion" into more of a footwork-led belter, whereas the closing "Foot Soldiers" is an unashamedly potent cascade of bro-bass that sounds a little too close to total fallout. YES!
Review: Danish bass expert RDG steps into the grimelight with this new EP for the dread Circle Vision imprint, and "Tiger Style" is the first gunshot of the four-track bombshell, complete with a buzzing bassline worthy of any true dubstep rave; "Sky Pulse" follows up nicely with its sparse beat structure and 3D bass frequencies worthy of some sci-fi animation. "Dagobah", taken from the Star Wars ecosystem, rattles forth with an almighty dubwise feel that would surely go down a storm in any serious ode to Jah. Causa's remix of "Tiger Style" is a slower, more lingering stealth weapon with plenty of menacing sub bass. YES.
Review: RDG's Circle Vision creeps up from behind and surprises us with their first V/A EP. Satisfaction levels remain fully flexed as the whole collection is a shoes-off, brain-blown and hair-raised affair throughout: Causa bends minds with a really tripped out bass drone and drum arrangement, Taiko gets all snarly, slimy and similarly illusionary with weirded-out reverse textures and resampled. Deeper again Dark Tantrums devil up the dance with tightly coiled tension while the bossman shoots us to the stars with the spacious space-bound sub stepper "Galaxy Run". Visionary to infinity...
Review: We've got two trips to take back in time to understand the true gravitas of what's going on here... First we head back to 2012 when RDG released the bee's nest rattling original on All Out. Then we leap to 2014 when these remixes came out on limited edition vinyl. Back to the future and each one of the rerubs still sounds way ahead of the curve. Bisweed trips us out with his seasick sonics, D Operation Drop keep the 80s stabs but add a silky funk to the subs, Piezo gets the sledgehammer out while Server gets his loopy techno flex on. Trust- This will still sound future in another 2, 22 or 222 years time.
Review: Danish vibe maestro Beastie Respond returns with another widescreen clutch... The centrepiece is a sweet silky soul strutter fronted by Alia Fresco and coated in slinky keys. It's countered neatly with glitch grizzles on "Intergalactic Soapbox Derby", party-wise D&B dynamics on "Joy Ride" and two guitar-garnished beat hybrids "Gold Fang" and "Spaghetti Reptoid". We're brought to vibrant finale with the Rusko-like charms of "Wolf". Howling mad.
Review: Dubstep's dissonant soundtrack usually leaves us floundering in deep space but Circle Vision bossman RDG and his phantom mate K Man have composed a darker trip much closer to home... "Lost On Earth". RDG scores the first two movements: "Rise" spurts danger with the demonic tones of Sun of Selah over a jagged dubby riff while "Against Us" fuses car horns and a paranoid atonal bass riff. K Man provides closure: "Metaharmonics" takes us back to 2008 with its scuffed chrome hook while "Lavender Sky" finally takes us off this gosh-forsaken planet with rocket pads. Due to the squiggly nature of the bass our destination, however, is unknown. Happy travels.
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