Review: Krotone has unleashed an absolute masterstroke with this latest outing on DEXT Recordings, a super spicy sweep through tidy subs and futuristic breaks work, kicking off with the heavily delayed vocal samples and room-filling drum swipes of 'Mash Down', which also sits as the title track. Next to this, 'Joker' takes us down a more experimental garage route, giving us stuttered vocal FX & booming rhythms, followed by 'The Frequency', which then extends those garage themes down a much more dubwise avenue. Finally, the warbling subs and metallic drum work of 'Insane' draws us to a steady close, finishing off this very tasty collection in style.
Review: Developing its roster over the last few years DEXT Recordings has curated a discography worth talking about with a bend of artists ranging from Special Request, Nightwave and Jerome Hill to Mark Broom and Dead Man's Chest collaborations. For DEXT's first release in 2020 it does the same, pitching legends of the scene like Commix and Appleblim alongside new school mates like Pugilist and Otik. Raw beats find themselves eventually masked by swathes of delay and melody in Appleblims' 'Hydrothermal Vents" with Commixx turning in a staccato loop hovering somewhere in that grey zone between drum and bass and techno. Deep, reverberating two-step and jungle vibes outta Pugilist with "Eclipse" (tip!) with some colourful dub and melodic beat scene loops oozing between the dubstep of "Apollon".
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