Formed in early 2020, there isn’t another label quite like aspirational Bristolian young guns Invicta Audio. Despite still being in their infancy as a platform, the close-knit team and head-honcho Anton Bailey (AKA Viatic UK) have gone from strength to strength in their short time in the scene, picking up fans, followers and plaudits at a truly astonishing rate. Whether it’s their colossal 9000 Soundcloud followers that were achieved in just over 9 months, their praised inclusions in press behemoth UKF’s essential foreshadowing ‘20 For 2020: The Labels’ & ‘Top 21 Labels To Look Out For In 20201’ features, or momentous nominations for DJ Mag’s ‘Best Breakthrough Label’ & DNBArena’s ‘Best Newcomer Label’ awards, Invicta lead from the front, delivering the very best in weighty, grotty drum & bass whilst simultaneously treading new sonic paths alongside. Additionally, as well as being ever-present in the events and promotional arenas, they’re pushing forth with one of the finest release rosters in the game: Jam Thieves, Sub Killaz, Magenta, Kontakt, Oppidan, Just Eden, Conrad Subs, Napes, Refracta and plenty more have passed through the doors with aplomb. One thing is certain, the sun is shining blindingly bright for all associated with Invicta Audio.
Review: Oooh who's impatient this summer? Inja's in a hurry to get to the party, he's turbo charged and he wants to get to the party NOW. Good job T-Lex is fully prepped, gassed and loaded for all missions. Elsewhere she goes solo on 'Insight' and 'Overthink It'. The former is pure tension with an ice cold build up and big drama on the savage pay-off while the latter goes on a pure creepy one. All staccato one-note paranoia, this will tingle your spine up so hard you might lose a few vertebrae. Finally, and not a moment too soon, Jman joins the ranks for the anthemic finale 'Ease Off'. Pow!
Review: Bennie's bullets keep on firing from all angles as the Welshman returns to Invicta with this absolutely huge collabo-splattered collection of dancefloor melters. Featuring the likes of Latte, Eyez, Scuffed and Junior Dog, Bennie flexes the whole range right here: Eyez brings lyrical savagery on the opening cut 'Turn It Up' while Junior Dog goes in hard on the swagger-packed finale 'Different'. In between these two poles standout cuts include the EDM-spiked 'Good Liar' and the Latte-linked tear-up 'Straight Outta London'. Crank it.
Review: Ready for the shutdown? You'd better be as J Bookey is fully tooled up and ready for war right here on Invicta Audio. Linking up with two of the best MCs in the game - Eksman and Dreps - this is one of the heaviest EPs Invicta have ever released. 'Shutdown' sets the pace with a blazing dancefloor riff could melt the biggest of arenas, 'Thunder' brings a little sing-along soul to the mix while 'Run' has us all rolling our sleeves up and getting ready for business while 'See You Dancing' closes the EP with a big euphoric rush. What an EP!
Review: Bristol sickness! Invicta celebrates three years of upfront, new-gen, future-focused D&B with this exceptional VA from the very forefront of dancefloor and jump-up action. The tracklist alone says it all as the likes of Zimma, ALR, Jam Thieves, Kumo, Nasser and more all get busy with the full-strength drops and grotty grooves. Complete with strong MC representation from the likes of Killa P, Mad Sam and Dread MC, vibes are firing left, right and centre. Every single track should be considered a highlight but the raw flames of ALR's 'Fuego' are ridiculously hot and Nasser & Killa P's transitional 'Scary' tune is essential for all multi-genre DJs. Happy anno Invicta!
Review: Invicta coming on strong with two big old switcheroos from old friends and new - Zimma, Dread MC and Samtone. Both cuts doing that cheeky jungle/ravey break and grotty jump-up drop flip, there's plenty of mixing fun to be had here. 'The Dough' dusts off the hoovers for some timeless rave stabs and a toad-on-helium style bass texture on the drop while 'Kill Dem' does a similar type of stunt but with added fire from Dread MC and more of a jungle rinse on the build up. Happy birthday Invicta.
Review: Burt Cope brings nothing but hope as PDX and Charlotte X link-in for some total and utter jump-up fury. 'Rambo' shoots first and asks questions never with is razor sharp bassline barks and the lead guttural vocal style adds serious fire. Flip for the soulful contrast as 'Distant' brings smooth jazzy soul and blissful bars and vocals from PDX and Charlotte X. All sides of the night covered.
Review: The mighty Formula returns to Invicta with one of his most comprehensive and accomplished EPs to date. Flexing the full range of his sounds and styles, 'Warrior' has something for everyone. You want a tune to get murky and naughty to? 'Warrior' is your soundtrack. You want deep emotional numbers to hold hands with your loved one to? 'D?j? Vu' and 'Sweet Company' are your jams. You want tunes to scary the dickens out your friends with? 'Marines' is your weapon. You need a tune that sounds - and feels - like a rifle? 'Give Praise' is essential. What an EP.
Review: Here comes a massive summer bonus! Invicta Audio ease into the sunny season with this superior collection from the most exciting names in new-generation D&B. With a strong funk flavour running throughout, artists like Mase, Refracta and Harley D deliver some of their sassiest and soulful cuts to date. Elsewhere Jam Thieves brings a little dirt, B-Plexx adds a brisk and breezy rave charm while StillZ delivers one of his finest moments so far with his remix of Fraser & Caramel's 'Mellow'. Invicta are constantly flexing and developing but this is one of their best yet. A perfect snapshot of exciting, soul contemporary D&B.
Review: It feels like they've been delivering the good for a lot longer than two years but here we are... Invicta Audio have only been a legit label for 24 months and look at all the artists they've brought through and bangers they've given us so far. Here's a little reminder in the form of this short, sweet but extremely banging 'Best Of' collection. Featuring the likes of Harley D, Jam Thieves, Magenta, Scuffed and vocalists like the inimitable Devilman and Aleya Mae, it's a great way to get up to speed on the damage Anton Bailey's label is causing right now. New generation fire!
Review: BANG: Invicta get busy with man-of-the-moment Posk. Still causing tremors with his Audio Addict EP from earlier this year, he now links up with four different artists for three on-point MC sizzlers and a tricked out instrumental. Devilman takes the lead on the title track, causing instant energy and focus. Deeper into the EP 'Zim' brings his futuristic drawling sickness to 'Baddest' while B-Line stings like a bee over the wasp-like bass zaps on 'Offset'. Finally 'Grubby' flips the switch as Posk calls up Zeba for a really interesting hybrid creeper. More please Posk, you boss!
Review: Boom! Bunnerz and Yoteii collide in deep space for this premium debut on Invicta. Two collabs, two solo originals, all kinds of fire, each cut hits a different spot. 'Grotville' takes the lead with its underground vibe. Anyone who's familiar with TFL will instantly smile as the tubes are sampled and used as part of the rises and we're taken to a whole new station none of us knew existed. Elsewhere 'Spaceman' sees them linking with MC Havoc for a white knuckle cosmic crusade, 'Catching Cases' sees Bunnerz letting rip with a grotty, twisted jump-up blend while Yoteii bring the EP to an exulting halt with the super futuristic minimal missive 'Dead Line'. Naughty.
Review: Bubbling under the surface and honing his craft for several years, Harley D has come into his own in recent times with killer thumper bumpers on Serial Killaz, Cre8 and now another one here for Bristol's Invicta Audio. The Views EP features the neurofunk attitude of the title track, the dark cinematic atmosphere of "Run Away" (VIP) which is reminiscent of classic Photek, while the emotive steppa "Ardour" provides something deeper as does the intelligent drum 'n' bass of "Vision".
Review: Invicta Audio is a record label and events company currently based in Bristol. For their next release they have tapped Brazil's Jam Thieves, now operating as a solo act, who is hot off a recent release on Hospital Records and drives into 2021 with the aim of levelling up on the Holy Plant EP. Features the drum 'n' bass ragga swagger of the title track, followed by some deeply meditative dubstep in the form of "Mista Lava Lava" which showcases the diversity within this talented producer's reerptopire. Elsewhere, you have got the fierce techstep roller "Dub Cali" and the seething vocal infused neurofunk of "Madona" which closes it out.
Review: Currently tearing up freshers dances across the UK, Anton Bailey's Invicta Audio serve up yet another massive VA collection that puts us squarely in the centre of the new generation. A snapshot of exciting sounds, ideas and energies, once again Invicta do the future proud. Highlights include the techno stabs and trippy percussion of Teezy's 'Killa', the sudden switch between euphoric and utter drop filth on IZUK's 'Massive', BA2's spacious and tense 'No Further' and the sweet and sassy pitched up vocals on the album finale 'Complicated' by Valor. And this barely scratches the new talent iceberg. Big up Invicta each and indeed every.
Review: Following his sublime excursion on Incurzion earlier this year GLM makes his debut on Invicta and brings along a few friends for the vibe. The EP kicks off with the deep dark soul of the title track 'Way Out', a slinky cut laced with subtle cosmic elements, before we hurtle deeper and deeper into GLM's rabbit hole... 'Suffocate' (with Addicted) leaves us breathless with its little savage flairs that pop up and die down just as quickly, 'Feel It Comin' (with Jammez) is pure dark matter soul with its big vocal and gnarly bass shreds before 'Wait For You' seems GLM go solo for a moody heads down finale. No way out from this one.
Review: Time flies when you're smashing out high grade new-gen bangers: Invicta already strike up a year of business and celebrate with this powerful V/A collection from friends and familiar faces. As always with Invicta the range is right across the board as we slide and glide from smooth soul (H8TO - 'This Place', Refracta - 'Touch') right the way to utterly gutterly filth (Gonda - 'Bulll', Harley D - 'Forever') and all banger styles in between. Other highlights include Phizical's super-slinky 'Feeling', B-Plexx's soaring vocal work-out 'Too High' and Jam Thieves' moody creeper 'Black Light'. Happy birthday Invicta!
Review: Invicta Audio are doing us all a massive solid with this release, simply because compilations featuring incredible artists are just the best and the more music we get towards our ear drums the better. The Echo LP is a jump up inflected, minimalistic release that doesn't take many prisoners. 'Bad Bitch' by Harley D, featuring Scotty, is a perfect example of this, as his vocals lead you in with a distinctive tone before a broken drop emanates with some serious force, subterranean wobbles abound and it's an all-round moody listen. The rest of the LP is just as strong - big up the whole team.
Review: Everyone loves a proper compilation, right? What's better than having a range of artists in one condensed place? It's essentially an album with the ease of listening of a single, so we're all for it. Invicta have come out with the second edition of their one year anniversary celebration and it's packed full of jump-up bangers, one of those albums which doesn't try to be cool or sophisticated by chucking in a few fillers for the sake of diversity - it's just hard stuff here. It works great, with Harley D's 'Forever' the highlight, its jungle influences blending well with a punchy sub-bass and gargles jump up synth tears, a properly stepping track that just oozes class and shows how much Harley D's production has come on in recent times. Sick album guys.
Review: Gonda & Rise join the Invicta fray with another sampler from the label's '1 Year Of Invicta' anniversary release. 'Hold Up' takes the lead. Originally a free download from Gonda last year, Rise switches up the beats and gives the bassline a wry twist while 'Bull' sees them linking for an all-out bassline slap-about. Big swing on the beats, cheeky on the riff and venomous bars. Invicta smash it once again.
Review: Invicta have been making some serious waves the past year or so and with a growing recognition that they're one of the best labels releasing a consistent slew of music, they're celebrating their evolution with a multi-part LP. This is the first instalment and a whole crew is on things with a six-tracker of frightening proportions, packed full of solid percussive strikes and flowing basslines. 'Dance Girl' has a seriously funky rhythmic pattern and a slick array of basslines, whilst 'Life' takes things in a funkier direction with ragga sampling and a fluid concoction of sub-heavy bass magic. There are also more melancholic, deeper sounds, as B-Plexx nails the liquid vibe on 'Too High' - top.
Review: Invicta raise the birthday alarm with the first sampler of their first-year anniversary collection. Both bubbling with big vocal hooks, Bookey steps up first with a massive conscious reggae hook. Powerful lyrics packing a punch over a turbo-charged sun-kissed skank, this will be firing out of rigs all summer as the raves re-open. Joining Bookey is Invicta debutant H8TO who also goes in on the vocal focus but this time with more of a soulful flavour as he rolls out a house-flavoured bop with a nagging bassline hook and a breakdown to melt to. Happy birthday Invicta.
Review: Naughty enough to make you have daddy issues, Froidy follows up appearances on Invicta and DnB Allstars Vas with his debut EP and, as he dutifully hints with the title, he's well and truly brought it. The title track features a Ragga Twins sample over a tense dancefloor bassline while the rest of the EP gets progressively darker and heavier; 'Diickhead' is a whole maze of bass flavours and textures tightly woven over rattling beats, 'Give It Up' counters a dreamy, almost trance-like breakdown with a series of killer depth plunge basslines while 'Mad Shots' closes the EP on a mean and meaty one thanks to some well sculpted bass drones. Don't slip on these Froidy ones.
Review: Well lookee what we have here... The rising styles of young Brum artist Bookey with his debut EP on Invicta. Four tracks deep, featuring mates like Harley D, PDX, Joely and JustJo, the release covers the full spectrum from epic steam engine bassline chuggers ('Sundown') to deeper emotional numbers ('Standing Tall') via outrageous bassline groaners that will absolutely melt systems the minute we're allowed to rave again ('Take Me') and absolute hooky howlers like 'The End'. Lookee, hooky, Bookey.
Review: Bristol beefcake Formula makes one of his biggest moves so far with this killer debut on Invicta Audio. All four cuts hitting with realness and showing a different side to the young producer, highlights include the deep-space wriggles and sultry house vocal snippets on 'You & Me' and the all-out party flavours of 'Bad Boys'. Switching from a classic twangy riff even your mum knows to a groany, gutter-chomping drop is a dramatic and funky move. We need more music like this.
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