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Nice Up!
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Seanie T - "Veterans" (feat Donovan Kingjay, Blak Twang, The Ragga Twins, Karl Hinds, Ty, Ricky Ranking, Pesci, Rodney P, Skeme, Breis, Navigator, MC Creed, Hil St. Soul, Roots Manuva, Poleto, Cons, Tony D & Serocee - Wrongtom remix) - (5:44) 57 BPM
Played by: Juno Recommends Drum & Bass, Juno Recommends Dubstep, Juno Recommends Reggae, STRICTLY RAGGA JUNGLE
Review: Since their inception, there are few labels that have been able to tie the fusion of Jamaican system-influenced sounds with the UK underground as well as the Nice Up! Team. We have been absolutely loving their journey in recent times, with this latest selection seeing them gathering some of their biggest hitters for one of our favourite compilation drops of 2021. That list of heavy hitters includes the likes of Danny T, Tradesman, Red Eye HiFi, Taxman, Escape Roots and many more, all of whom contribute a fantastic combination of instrumental and vocal fire. The quality level is so high, from the footwork inspired drum rolls of Casement's 'Mutiny', to Congi's spacious rethink of Origin One's 'Dead & Buried' and even Gray's big room recreation of 'Strangers' from Mr Benn & Tiya X An. There are a couple of clear highlights for us, including Wrongtom's dubwise rethink of Seanie T's 'Veterans', which features one of the most vibrant collections of UK hip hop vocalists we have ever seen. As well as this, the Riddim Punks rework of Think Tonk & General Jah Mikey's 'None Of Dem' is anthem material if ever we heard it. Fantastic work!
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NUP 084
08 Oct 21
Drum & Bass / Jungle
08 Oct 21
Drum & Bass / Jungle
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NUP 080R
26 Mar 21
Drum & Bass / Jungle
26 Mar 21
Drum & Bass / Jungle
Review: Boy oh boy do we love to hear from Escape Roots, following his album earlier this year with this fantastic new single drop alongside the legendary Tenor Youthman. The original mix for this one is a sumptuous modernized reggae original, providing a futuristic digidub soundscape, over which Tenor is giving the licence to roam freely with his instantaneously recognizable vocal texture. From here we then dive into the remix creations as Somah firstly provides us with an aquatic warbler of an overhaul, focussing in on the more dubstep-end of the spectrum, followed by even more futuristic production sounds of Samson Sounds, who remixes the track into a sweeping viber, upping the tempo slightly as he goes.
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NUP 079
06 Nov 20
Dub
06 Nov 20
Dub
Review: Riddim Punks is dropping an album on Nice Up and the results are distinctly impressive. The features they've managed to bring in particular, as Rider Shafique, the Ragga Twins, Eva Lazarus, Chronixx and P Money all get in on the fun. There's a moody intro track from Rider Shafique which sets the tone, before a wickedly wobbling number - 'London Is Burning feat. King Ali Baba - gets things underway. For those who love things heavy, 'Calypso' feat. Navigator and Scorpio MC is a stepping jump up number, whilst the dream duo of Chronixx and P Money lay down the fire on 'Sell My Gun'. This album is tight, fuelled by the sounds of the U.K. underground and totally unmissable.
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NUPLP 010
23 Oct 20
Drum & Bass / Jungle
23 Oct 20
Drum & Bass / Jungle
Review: This EP has to have possibly the most ridiculous MC lineup that's ever been concocted in the UK, as a truly all-encompassing list of UK greats get's the remix treatment. The Ragga Twins, Navigator, Roots Manuva.... the list goes on. It's crazy to hear and things are made better by the quality of the remixes on offer, as Liondub and Jah Boogs roll the motley crew of vocal sounds out over a rythmically diverse beat that mutates from hip-hop tones into rolling drum & bass business. Wrongtom nails his remix, lounging the vocals out over a dub beat, whilst Daz-I-Kue gives it an afrobeat flip. Legendary stuff.
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NUP 078
18 Sep 20
Drum & Bass / Jungle
18 Sep 20
Drum & Bass / Jungle
Review: With the All Out label grooming Glasgow talent Casement for successive releases on labels like 1Forty, Deep Cover and a 2018 album for Wile Out, it's the Nice Up! label up next that delivers three dubby variations of urban and club sounds from the UK. Dubstep leads the charge in "Shards" with syncopated drums and stepped percussion submitting to stabs of huge reverberating bassline rave, with touches of baile funk nestled in behind cosmic melodies of synth in "Cables". "Night Garden" adds a solid trip of tropical weightless grime to the EP as well, and a nice left field alternative for the dancefloor or club.
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NUP 072
10 Jan 20
Bass
10 Jan 20
Bass
Review: Nice Up! are at it again here as they continue their journey into the unknown, this time employing the talents of Noh Vae who arrives with three parcels of absolute weight. We kick off with the title track 'Look At U', a precisely design jukey masterpiece, with incredibly crispy drum arrangements and subtle bass tones leading the way, before the more emotive atmospherics and vocal stabs of 'Days & Days' roll into play. Finally, we take a more experimental D&B route as 'Perception' again deploys incredibly fine drum work to round this project off with some major finesse.
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NUP 067
11 Oct 19
Footwork/Juke
11 Oct 19
Footwork/Juke
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NUP 064
28 Jun 19
Hip Hop/R&B
28 Jun 19
Hip Hop/R&B
Played by: Buck Lee
Review: Nottingham's finest Origin One comes correct with his debut album. And if so much as your little toe loves rootsical flavours then you need to tune in. A heady melting pot of dub, reggae, dancehall, soul, afrobeat and hip hop, all wrapped up with strong beats and features from the likes of Spyda, Irah, XL Mad, Peppery, Parly B, Gardna, Nanci Correia, double-O badman Origin One has cooked up something special. From the flabby bass of "Where You Come From" to the juiced up jungle skanks of "Tribute" via the system-melting skanks of dubstep stamper "Dread & Buried", sitting somewhere between The Bug and Dub Pistols, this is serious piece of work right here. Listen up. Nice Up.
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NUPLP 005
15 Feb 19
Roots/Lovers Rock
15 Feb 19
Roots/Lovers Rock
Review: Blind Prophet & Self Evident's burgeoning new Folding City project makes its debut on Shepdog's Nice Up! with climactic results. "What It Is" busses up sexy R&B vibes with some fantastic drum choppage as the breaks get diced and spliced to smithereens amid a whole sea of tropical tones. Dig deeper for "Knife & Fork" where a little trappist drama provides a white knuckle build into a stripped back dancehall stepper jam. Don't ask what, ask why not?
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NUP 060
30 Nov 18
Drum & Bass / Jungle
30 Nov 18
Drum & Bass / Jungle
Origin One feat K.O.G
Review: Nice Up live up to their name with a trio of speaker-melting takes on Origin One's most recent release; the fragrant herbal homage "High Grade". First up are no-nonsense next-gen junglist Selecta J-Man and Kelvin 373 whole flip the gritty dancehall original into a turbo-charged jump-up hybrid, mysterious Manny collective Think Tonk get all wavey and stampy while Canadian operator flips things into a cosmic halftime workout where K.O.G's gritty gravel vocals really shine. Nice work.
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NUP 045R
11 May 18
Drum & Bass / Jungle
11 May 18
Drum & Bass / Jungle
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NUP 035
03 Feb 17
Drum & Bass / Jungle
03 Feb 17
Drum & Bass / Jungle
