Grid Recordings was founded by Twisted Individual in 2000 and has over the years released music from some of the scenes biggest names including, Twisted himself, Hazard, Marky & Spy, Sub Zero, Tyke, Original Sin, Netsky, Fred V & Grafix, Hybrid Minds, Serum, Voltage, Bladerunner, Drumsound & Bassline Smith, The Upbeats, Zen, Baron and many more. The label recently made a comeback in 2016 after a 4 years break and it's been going from strength to strength ever since. They had releases from the likes of Twisted, T>I, Damage Report, Ray Keith, Nick The Lot, Leaf, Need For Mirrors, DJ Limited, PA, Hexa, Dunk & StillZ to name only but a few.
The label has been referred to as a Jump up with balls label which is pretty spot on! But they didn't like to pigeon hole themselves as they have released many liquid and hard step tunes over the years.
Review: As always, the Grid Recordings crew have assembled so high intensity heat for our eardrums to all explore here, welcoming the explosive production techniques of MJay inside for a fiery introduction. We open up with the title track 'Checkmate', a reese-driven ride through gnarly percussion and hard hitting sub-notation, followed closely by the first of two collabs between MJay & Dunk entitled 'Electro', a unique yet potent bubbler. The second of those collaborations is named 'Scraps' and focuses strongly on looming sub sweeps and ripping synth lines to match, with 'Inertia' then giving us some haunted synth reverberations and delicate drum designs to close off this EP in style.
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