Review: It's yet another blockbuster release from the Sneaker Social Club team, who welcome the sounds of Park End across for shiny new sweepers with seriously spicy feeling. We open up with the dark atmospheric rumblings and shuffling breaksy sweeps of 'Same Dream', followed by the incredibly eerie soundscaping of 'The Immortality Of The Crab', a real switch up to say the least. Next, a more abstract take on the UKG sound as Park End delivers a clicky remix of 'BBS', reworking it into a sublow heavy chugger, with the grimey synth work and abnormal processing of 'Rekt' then giving us another otherworldly soundbomb as a closer. Awesome work!
Review: Soundbwoy Killah excels with this release and making the older amongst remember old-school raves, and the younger wish you could've been there. 'Yours' glides into the start of the release with bass shakes and soulful vocal samples, before a refreshing bout of 2-step tumbles out of the swirl and cuts in with a naughty, diving sine bass. 'Come My Selector' takes you back to 2005, in a good way - one for the rude boys and the ravers. 'Abra Cadabra' is packed with eclectic percussion, bumping you along before taking a dive down into the deep, the dark and the dirty, blackish atmospherics providing the backdrop for a non-stop sink into the bass below. You might recognise the sample in 'Turn Off The Lights' from Mak & Pasteman's 'Oh Baby', but this is a different beast altogether. More punchy kick drums and tight, spinny back ends evoke even clearer notions of the rave. Top stuff.
Review: Following on from his debut form last year, Dream Cycle returns to Sneaker Social Club with three supplementary doses of bass-centric tech-stomping. Thanks to strong elements of dub techno, Chicago house and UK dubstep, Dream Cycle has crafted his own sound, his own way, and he now belongs to the realm of what we like to call 'legends'. The opening "Influence" is a weighty, rolling slice of broken beat, minus the jazz, while "Afters (3am mix)" takes a look at UK garage for inspiration, and "DCYX 5" rolls on through with a badness and intent that we always saw in peeps like Derrick Carter or Glenn Underground. BAAAD!
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