Review: Following on from his "Big Perm" single for Discobelle, San Francisco's Worthy returns to the label with mighty skeletal banger "Lost Dog". A jacking tech-bass classic in the making, "Lost Dog" mixes wild vocal samples with an insanely tight bass beat and some renegade snares. Lucid push the tempos into a juke/crunk zone with some almost industrial strings shots while the ever excellent LOL Boys get even more low-slung with a ghetto-tech overhaul that's half Egyptian Lover and half Gucci Mane.
Review: Already much-fancied and feted by those in the know, Brighton producer Guy Andrews drops this debut EP for Discobelle and it's a feast of slow acid-meets-UKF treats. Title tune "Your Notion" is a confident opener, mixing slowly shifting acid gurgles with precise and sharp UKF/future-garage drums, while "Klikkr" breaks out with the 808 hats and adds some tribal percussion that nestles perfectly up against rounded bass hits. "Unita" notches up the BPMs slightly and feeds warped pianos through a phalanx of reverbs and delays over a driving bassline, while closing tune "Exit" plays with Balearic textures whilst all the while keeping a distinctly vital, funky crunch to the beats.
Review: On this release, blog darlings Discobelle present the latest release on their label, from mysterious US producer Myrryrs. His style explores the darker corners of R&B, utilising pitched vocal samples to great effect. "Feel U" comes across as a more neon version of Tri Angle Records artist Holy Other, taking the same stuttering hip-hop snares and cavernous space but adding a touch of commercial R&B to the mix. "C?U?M" meanwhile dips into a sleazier late night vibe as elastic synths elongate themselves across breathier snatches of vocal, whilst "Without U" is the most sumptuous of his productions, with a slick sidechained melody and jittery percussion. On the remix side, three producers offer reworks of "Without U"; Samo Sound Boy creates a tropical bass remix which accentuates the fluorescent synths of the original, whilst Teki Latex and Bambounou create a similarly bass-focused effort with pounding tribal rhythms. Finally, Clicks & Whistles fill in the original's gaps with shimmering 8-bit melodies.
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