Review: It's been a while since we last saw Kezman on Shiftin Beatz. During that time he's learnt a valuable-but-tough lesson: crime doesn't pay. Making foul, dirt-chomping Hazard-style basslines does pay off, though. As proved on these two midnight murkers. "Crimes Don't Pay" harbours higher-end middy wasp bass while "Tongue Twister" takes the tones down an octave or two for something much more harrowing. Criminally decent.
Review: Following his gnarly jump-up juice on Soundbully earlier this year, UK up-and-comer Fatality gets busy on Basildon-based imprint Shiftin? Beatz. Sporting a deeper, leaner steez throughout the release, each of these four cuts sit pretty in axis between the likes of Shogun, Playaz and Critical as naked drums punctuate with chiselled power and persistence. Highlights include the immersive sub arrangement and faraway string tones on ?Did You Hear That?? and the creeped out neuro moans of the cheerfully titled ?Dire Suffering?. Talk about living up to your artist name.
Review: Belgium's Nightfang - wolf by name, wolf by nature - lands on Shiftin Beatz with a barrel-load of heavy beats and raucous low-ends. The title track "Ghost Smile" is perhaps not as bad and as nasty as you'd think given the name, but "Time Bomb" - featuring the great Jack The Ripper - is all monstrous wobble, jump-up beats and sirens blasting. "What You Killll" and "Optimus Prime" both continue the young man's search for the nastiest, most growling bassline on the old Logic sound bank.
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