Review: A sweeping, crackling intro full of anticipation, beautifully enunciated beats and glitchy gurgles eases us into "Zebra's Crossing". A gorgeous murmuring bassline calls the shots from below in the slightly perturbing sketchy soundscape, in which downtempo, almost trance like atmospherics dominate in the distance. Up next, "Night Life" is a further existential exploration with a minimalist Perez/Rockwell style sensibility, with a deep, menacing b-line and glitched up beats shuffling round another in pared down glory. A nice release on the Dutch label.
Review: Quadrant and Dabs switch it up on this split release on Citrus; first it's Dabs remixing Quadrant's "Only Mortal" and then it's vice versa. The former is all terse, punchy drums, dreamy ethereal pads and understated trance-like synths, falling into the main tune with a shudder of SFX and pound of drums. The latter is Quadrant's remix of Dabs' "Crawler" - crisp, stuttering beats are punctuated by hissing hi-hats and warping bass reminiscent of a Jubei release kicks in and dominates for the rest of the tune.
Review: Austrian noisemakers TR Tactics and Phentix join forces for Citrus in this blistering duo of neurofunk destruction. The title track almost immediately unleashes a torrent of techy beats, rolling hard and crisp over deep, undulating bass. The other track offers no rest. As its name suggests, "Insanity" is relentless, hammering down hard stepping rhythms under minimal atmospherics and the darkest of techy basslines. Two tracks made for the dancefloor, this is after dark music.
Review: Subsonik doesn't mess about, diving straight in and remixing two absolute belters from darkside soldiers Black Sun Empire and Quadrant & Cease respectively. First up is "Crash Bunny", which he re-works into a discerning dancefloor bomb with stuttering synths and cool percussion. "Rage & Rapture" undergoes a similar treatment, with a trance-like, sci-fi vocal-led intro and spaced out atmospherics, it drops into an epic adventure with rapturous synths and euphoric SFX. One for the ravers.
Review: Combining a fresh palette of sounds with D&B beats, Rawtekk & Mofi make new single Snowball really stand out. Harking back to the tech-step days, Snowball is a tough and properly dirty mash up of hard analogue kicks and squelchy pads and synths. Repulsion on the flipside is even more filthy, and it's wonky, disjointed beats make it a dark but brilliant highlight of the single.
Review: Neuro influences get turned up to the max from these Ukranian noisemakers. Fairly new on the scene but no less brash because of it, both tracks on this blistering release are harder than granite and icier than a freak Antarctic snowstorm. Referencing everyone from Misanthrop to Phace and Optical, it's an uncompromising and impressive take on neurofunk in 2013. No less damaging than its predecessors, "Fade To Black" especially has the razor-sharp edge to take dancefloors past breaking point, with cinematic musicality that proves these producers aren't just in it for the breaks - although there's plenty of those too.
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