Review: With such an incredible history of musical creations and teachings, it's no wonder that Nomine's home imprint of Nomine Sound continues to drop nothing but scorchers, with the latest in that lineage being this warbling pair of warheads from Fett. We begin with the potent LFO expressions and eerie atmospheric soundscaping of 'Spirits' which gives us an unusual sense of flavour. From here, we walk into a field of throwback LFO gurgles and plucked instrumentation and a couple of spooky star wars samples to deliver an enigmatic B-side in 'Palpatine'. Fabulous stuff all around!
Review: It seems to be the season of Flowdan as he returns to us for yet another hard hitting single release here, this time joining forces with the highly sought after production stylings of Boylan. The pair land on Nomine Sound for an absolute ruckus of an original, with Boylan providing a lethal bed, writhing with reesey bass textures and rocket launcher drum drops, over which Flowdan is given the freedom to run riot, switching his lyricism between extended poetic verses and more hard hitting, shorter style punches. Wicked stuff!
Review: E3 Breaks is an outfit which consists of grime maverick As If Kid and the one and only godfather of grime: DJ Slimzee. The new guise that these two opted to go with seems to have given them the urge to explore the deeper and darker side of the 140 sound. Tracks like "The Curse" are dark, street-level bass explorations that soon incorporate drum and bass riddims for added impact. This is followed by the tripped-out stepper "Backroads" featuring the most razor sharp bassline that we've heard all year. Get your bass bins ready, this one's a right killer!
Review: We find your lack of faith disturbing.... Nomine fires up the dance with two insanely heavy VIPs from the man like Macabre Unit. "Darth Vader" keeps the 70-a-day breathing and ominous tones but jacks up the riff into something much choppier and wilder while "Mash Up Da Place" enjoys a subtler shake up with tripped harmonics laced into twisted bass riff. These are what VIPs were invented for.
Review: Within the dubstep community, Nomine has become hailed as one of the modern fathers of the genre, through his super clean production and musical innovation. This EP is a four track madness, kicking off with the 808-led sounds of 'The Fear' before rolling into the tripletted percussive energy of 'Listen'. Next up we have super precise rhythmic design of 'Crunch Time', incorporating asian plucked melodies over crunchy drum work before we finally land on the mega-techy synthesis of 'Beginners Mind' to round the EP off in style.
Review: One of Nomine Sound's biggest releases to date; Boylan & Slimzee collide for four absolute heavers right here. "No Cure" is the deadliest jam of the set with its swooping, swathing horror movie bass, "Replicants" takes us deep into the rave machine and sends us home packing with some twisted mentasms and hoovers, "Delta City" plays the consummate graveyard stomper with a little more space and weight while "Reinforced" closes with a homage to one of the most important record labels in the early jungle movement. This is nothing short of essential.
Review: Flexing across his two more prominent aliases, Raff AKA Demon AKA Macabre Unit AKA Nurve b2b's himself hard in the kisser at the behest of professor Nomine. Three tunes a-side, his 140 dubstep-inspired Macabre Unit guise takes the lead with drama and dark humour; "Darth Vader" is a theatrical skanker, "Mash Up Da Place" is a woozy, toxic jam with a bassline that spirals into paranoia while "Man Up" gets all stiff upper-lip with its rising bass hook that flips between textures with a nervous twitch. Raff's slower, tech-inspired Nurve constructions complete the story with glacial glee... "Silentium" is a sparse, deep space twist on halftime and alien jungle, "Amazon" is a swampy triplet swinging riddim while "Best To Just Ride It" sends us packing off to space on a rocket of off-grid drums and raw man-eating bass. Immense.
Review: Nomine's Nomine Sound deals in the darker, more brooding shade of bass music that we all still really like to call 'dubstep'. The man's been an influential member of London's Tempa unit, so all the credentials are certainly in the right place. This new EP sees his share ideals with Macabre Unit, an absolute don in the game, and the two are perfectly matched. Nomine kicks off with three solo cuts, from the tribalesque grime antics of, ehm, "Grimy Tribe", to the menacing digi-gunshots of "Game Over", and "World Of G" featuring MC Duff, a vocal-ridden grime killer sung in an imperceptible strain of patois - tha BOMB! Macabre Unit first steps up with the explosive, head-banging bursts of "Sound Boy", followed by a cacophonous flurry of grime-inspired synth stabs on "Red Stripe Riddim", and tied off with the electrifying bass waves of "Neurotik".
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