Review: It's been a long time coming, but we couldn't be more excited to finally dive into a fresh new two-track display from UK bass heavyweights My Nu Leng, two of the most forward thinking producers to emerge from the UK during the original bass boom. We open up with a serious sizzler as '4ME' combines a bulbous selection of hard hitting bass bounces and stripped back drum chunks, linked with catchy vocal overlays and a smooth atmospheric backdrop for a tidy rave experience. On the flip to this, we hear a big bag of tasty drum processing and tight rhythmic designs, with pulsating kick drums fusing with grizzly atmospheric synthetics to give us another moody roller. Both of these spell a great return for the Bristol veterans, who we are sure are setting up for a very exciting 2023.
Review: As Hot Haus return with another fabulous four tracker, we see them welcome the emotive sounds of fleet.dreams, diving into a blissful display of harmonic understanding across some vibrant 2-step beats. We find this in action right away as the soulful vocal samples and nostalgic chord progressions of 'That Look' put us immediately at ease, with the more industrial breakbeat rhythms and jittering chord designs of 'U Been Lied 2' then switching direction rapidly. We then explore 'Feel Ur Fire', a more unorthodox arrangement, combining pitched down vocal lines and a packed out rhythm section for a bubbling journey, before the more dancefloor influenced designs of 'Temperamental' give us a smooth landing to conclude the EP. Lovely work!
Review: Amsterdam production unit U Know The Drill first surfaced last year with some rough and ready contributions to split releases on Slapfunk and Music Is Love that evidently impressed UTTU lynchpin DJ Haus. Off The Chain finds the pair debuting on Hot Haus with a two track of rowdy, dressed to sweat house action that sits nicely alongside recent efforts on the label from Steve Murphy and Palace. The title track shamelessly embraces the art of the banger with some absolutely devilish sub bass manoeuvres, whilst "Like Thiz" initially feels a bit more restrained. Give it a minute or so and the Dutch pair unleashes a killer rave drop that ramps up the overall intensity.
Review: There's nothing subtle about the work out London-based DJ and all-round man of mystery Rushmore. This third EP - his first for DJ Haus' Hot Haus imprint - continues in a similar vein to his first two outings for Trax Couture. That means a tough, raw blend of ghetto-tech, revivalist acid house, footwork and sub-bothering bass-house. Choose between the jacking rhythms, thunderous kick drums and Armando-ish rave stabs of "Dance Show" and "Drop Top", a cracking, in-your-face DJ tool built around footwork style handclaps, warped sub-bass and relentless drum machine cymbals. Neither track is particularly clever, but both are most certainly big.
Review: DJ Q and DJ Haus return to collaborate once again, and boy has it been worth the wait. Featuring three tracks and one remix from Q himself, this is an emphatic celebration of all things house, all things garage and all things party. The title track pays homage to Mr Edwards with sweet and sassy vocal splicing over a straight-up garage 4/4 rhythm. Further on we get all early '90s with a mischievous compressed organ riff on "Eros. Dance" while "All Nite" looks towards mid '90s UKG when the speed garage blueprint was only just being wire-framed. Q closes the curtains with the darkest jam of the set; LFO-style basslines, a mirroring waspy riff and busted up amens buried deep in the mix.... It represents everything that's great about rave and garage's purest rudiments.
Review: Andrew Field-Pickering seems to be on a roll at the moment. Following last year's brilliantly madcap drum workouts under the Dolo Percussion moniker, he returns to the more familiar Max D guise for an outing on the always-impressive Unknown to the Unknown label. "Highlife" is in many ways typical of his recent output, with pitched-down jungle drums underpinning typical tropical synths and a bouncing, off-kilter bassline. It's hard to pin down, but impressive nonetheless. Willie Burns remixing, turning the left-of-centre original into a wide-eyed chunk of African-influenced tropical deep house. It's a little saner than the original, but no less potent.
Review: Unknown To The Unknown's Palace drops a cheeky little number on Hot Haus Recs in the form of four effortlessly raw house and drum machine delights. All four tracks display the simplicity and funkiness which made so many Chicago house records so damn great - check "Astral" in particular, a real bombshell in every sense of the word and of course, "Dreamscape" itself, a thumping, pulsating beat flex. Top!
Review: Given that Trumpet & Badman is the result of studio sessions between bassline legend DJ Q and Unknown To The Unknown boss DJ Haus, you'd expect Love Keeps Changing to be tons of fun... and, of course, sound like the product of two producers obsessed with classic US garage. Given that Q has reportedly said that the EP was designed to be jam packed with "sexy summer stuff to vibe out with loads of booze and women", you'd have to say they've hit the spot. Think big beats, bigger basslines, synth saxophones, pitched-up vocal samples and plenty of floor-friendly silliness. Oh, and our pick is organ-and-sax roller "I Got The Love", but all four tracks are pretty hot.
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