Review: Pow: Vinyl Junkie and Rachael EC's Ghetto Dub imprint is raising the heat with every release right now. Next up: 36 Hertz affiliate SR with a quartet of raw jungle escapades. "Marble Madness" is an all-out amen attack that refuses to quit before "Armageddon" reveals deeper layers with its spaced out breaks and dark funk twists. "Emoji" commands every love heart and happy face you can muster with its classic rave vocal, eerie pads and sense-blurring drum edits. Finally "Special Ops" is straight back to 94 with drums chops fizzed up by the devil himself.
Review: A collection of modern dancefloor jungle, remixed and released for your pleasure. 'Nah Matta' is based round a forward moving, fast shuffle decorated with sirens, a ragga vocal and a big fat sub. 'Blackout' is a powerful beast of a track with hard and heavy hitting drum and a weighty bassline, lightened with the occasional classic 90's female vox. 'Lionheart Bizzness' is a loud and crashing sonic assault with a techy break down. 'Stay Tough' has a cinematic vibe, straight out of a thriller, we have a spoken warning and a killer sub.
Vinyl Junkie & Adam Mercy - "Itch It Up" - (4:40) 175 BPM
Review: Bristol badsmith Vinyl Junkie lets loose on Ghetto Dubs with four of his best pals. The results speak for themselves; "Mind Games" sees him tagging in with Ikon B with some powerful soaring, roaring drone bass licks, "Come Rudeboy" (with Sound Shifter) is a lesson in breakbeat ruffage while "Paradise Lost" (with long time collaborator Rachael E.C) is all about the spring bass that coils itself tightly around the slithering drum arrangement. Finally Adam Mercy joins the party for a darker slab of drum funk laced with rippled detuned synth shadows. As you'd expect from Ghetto Dub it's another smoking "Joints" series.
Review: The Ghetto Dub Recordings imprint make a feisty return here as they bring in X-E-Dos for four monstrous originals. We begin with the industrial drum work and high end synth stabs of 'Mescaline Paranoia', before we hit the stunning drum arrangements and sweeping reeses of 'Flutey'. Next up we hear the more experimental textures and spacey backing synthesis of 'Yosemite' before we finish up with an explosion in 'Jibber', an extra terrestrial composition focussing on distorted 808 stabs and widened break patterns.
Review: Long-standing break merchant X-E-Dos returns to Vinyl Junkie and Rachael EC's Ghetto Dub for more break-addled jungle mischief. Squeezing the dark-vibe-o-meter until it turns blood red, each track is that the cutting edge of jungle Rupture-style. Expect to be flattened by bass oceanic synths and growls on "I Wonder How" while "Possession" will hypnotise with its paranoid arpeggio worming in and out of the sheet metal drums. Elsewhere "We Wil Come" is the sonic equivalent of a wolf pack, ravaging through its latest kill with no sense of decency or manners while "Did You Know" could flatten cars with its rattling snare and dense atmospheres. They often say "Possession" is nine tenths of the law, we reckon it's nine thumbs up.
Review: Rub-a-dub-dub, a bunch of producers in the tub, none of them are clean because they're all making proper stinkers for Ghetto Dub. And these are a handful of examples. As the label unleashes the parts to some of its many key recent releases to four exciting talents. Man-of-the-moment Sikka takes the lead with a crucial tear-up of Vinyl Junkie & SR's "Peace Pipe" while Ly Da Buddah adds a whole new twist to Rachel EC's "All Rudeboys & Rudegirls" with an immense chainsaw bassline that cuts right through the mix. Elsewhere we get tremendously woozy and wonky with DJ Gaw's remix of Bill & Ed's "These Streets" before Dublic closes the show with an absolutely savage junglised slap-down of "Paradise Lost". Rerub? Rewind more like!
Review: Get your lengers out! Bristol's Subcriminal makes his debut on Ghetto Dub with this scorching six-tracker of authentic jungle flavours. "Raised In The Hood" breezes with a classic old rave feel to the synths before dropping into a brazenly buzzy bassline, "Cocobutter" gets us ready for the summer with its sparkled skanks while "Fractal" is all about the wobbled and warped bass funk. Elsewhere we're treated to an early 2000s Full Cycle style gully funk jam on "Boom Bang", we go gangbanging to the heads-down driving riff of "Mac 10" before "Run It" rips down the walls with pure jungle wizardry.
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