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Local Action
Review: Tom Lea's Local Action label deserves maximum respect and credit. The collective has been an integral part of the post-dubstep era and, since 2010, releases from the likes of T.Williams, DJ Q, and Slackk, among others, have contributed to solidifying what has become an arguably disparate genre of electronic music. Yaroze Dream Suite debuts on the label with this self-titled EP, and the opener "Pixel Dreams" is a raw and compelling digi rhythm with a distinctive element of serenity about its docile chimes, while "In The Moonlight" goes down a refreshingly lo-fi r&b mood. "Awakening", on the other hand, is all cavernous and foreboding, a husky beats of a tune with plenty of distorted tricks, which leaves "Spirit Temple" suspended in mid-air with its sinister yet inarguably enjoyable mist of harmonics. Tip, here!
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LOC 031
05 Oct 16
Bass
05 Oct 16
Bass
Review: Woof! Local Action home in one the end of 2015 and the hotness doesn't look like stopping any time soon. Tom Lea has only gone and sweet talked T Williams into returning to his grime alias Dread D for the first time in almost a decade. As Dread D, Tesafa Williams pushed buttons on numerous grime classics for the Black Ops label including "Invasion". He has of course gone onto house music greatness as T Williams, but a return to this grime sound as Dread D seems perfectly timed.
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LOC 030
03 Jun 16
Dirty Dubstep/Trap/Grime
03 Jun 16
Dirty Dubstep/Trap/Grime
Review: Bassline king DJ Q lays down a cheeky 1Up: a homage to everyone's favourite spiky ring-pinching blue hedgehog, "Sonic" is a bouncy two-step/breakbeat hybrid littered with vibrant 8-bit samples from the original game. With a bassline the strength of five end-bosses, it's clear Q's having a lot of fun right here.
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107119
13 May 16
Bass
13 May 16
Bass
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72451
25 May 15
Dirty Dubstep/Trap/Grime
25 May 15
Dirty Dubstep/Trap/Grime
Review: There has been no shortage of bright and bold crossover styles from Slackk over the past four years, with impressive bouts for Numbers, Unknown To The Unknown and Diskotopia marking his work out in that jagged, synth-rich space alongside Rustie, Hudson Mohawke and the Night Slugs posse. Now, having spent some time getting cosy with Local Action, he offers the label his debut album and takes the chance to drop no less than sixteen new takes on his grime-infused musicality with barely a filler or interlude in sight. While the tempos and rhythms may shift, the atmosphere remains consistently in that alien space somewhere out ahead of us, part video game fantasy and part urban uncertainty.
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64289
01 Sep 14
Bass
01 Sep 14
Bass
Review: Following a dalliance with Unknown To The Unknown in April, outspoken grime producer Slackk returns to Local Action on which he released the excellent Raw Missions EP last year. The Failed Gods EP is described by the label as delivering six tracks that cover the breadth of "ninjaman club destroyers to beatless synth pieces, with a healthy dose of weed and Twin Peaks in the mix," and easily stands as his strongest release to date; the melancholic video game vibes of "Empty Bottles", stripped-back square waves of "Algiers" and Eastern percussive tones of "Room Made Vague" all stand out as particularly brilliant. If you've not been keeping up with the recent grime resurgence, this is as good a place to start as any.
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45435
23 Sep 13
Dirty Dubstep/Trap/Grime
23 Sep 13
Dirty Dubstep/Trap/Grime
Review: From the opening bars of opener "Blue Sleet", the influence of grime in Slackk's latest missive for the excellent Local Action is obvious - a precise matrix of thin eski synths, composed into interlocking parallelograms of luminous green, accompanied by salvos of rattling claps. "Fat City" takes a similar formula and inverts it, creating a particularly mournful instrumental with a sluggish beat, inspiring images of a rain soaked sink estate. "Almost Transparent" meanwhile, positively swims with melodic charm, and despite going heavy on the Eastern synth flutes and thin marimba stabs it has enough gravitational pull in the thick low end to keep the whole thing grounded. But the real gut punch is "90 Years", the only track that eschews any kind of melody for sheer dancefloor power - utilising industrial snares alongside some thick cylinders of laser bass that feel like they've been fired by an orbiting death ray. Fantastic stuff - and shows the trad house bass wannabes how it's done.
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32210
04 Jun 12
Bass
04 Jun 12
Bass
