Review: This latest offering from Leks is sounding very spicy indeed as we touch down on Straight Up Audio for four serious cage rattlers, perfect for turning up in the heat in the dance. We begin within the super-gnarly arrangement style of 'Scum Bag', combining furious LFO wobbles with industrial, classic sounding d&b drum breaks for good measure, before 'High Rollers' switches up the flavours once again with a much more unpredictable combination of growling reese textures and floating chords. Form here, some serious jump up heat as the chaotic drum switch ups and bubbling sub sweeps of 'Booty So Big' are pushed to the forefront of the mix to cause some serious damage', before the pin-pointed bass tabs and more minimal breaks of 'Bad Guy' are unleashed to round the project off in style. This one is super weighty to say the least.
Review: Meaty missions right here on Straight Up Audio as Jinx gets crafty with the cleaver on his first single of 2022. 'Got Beef' is a powerful growler that slams, bumps and chows its way into the new year with a prime cut bassline that's been matured and cured for 30 days for ultimate flavour. 'Fresh' follows on a slightly deeper tip. Think early 2000s Bristol with 2020s production techniques and a super cool vocal sample. Come take a butchers.
Review: Last spotted on Straight Up Audio demanding we give him our love, Jinx is now back with a three track bundle comprised of pure dread - 'Scared Of The Jungle'. He ignites the engine with the sawing bassline warps and savage energy of 'Just Warming Up' before diving into the main EP title track meal; a paranoid and tense piece of work that's led be sharp, gnarled bass groans and timestretched vocals. Last but not least we have the ironically titled 'Ssh' where the bassline wobbles harder than a post lockdown gym session and the beats punch on a Digital level. The only thing to fear is sleeping on this. Massive.
Review: Jinx is a proper badman known for his approach to crafting devilish, wobbly beats and this single on Straight Up Audio is no different. It's a no-nonsense double-tracker with zero frills involved, a sub-heavy and pretension-light dancefloor slice of drum & bass. The A-side is 'Gimmie Your Love', which has a relentless vibe to its bassline; it just doesn't stop, powering through barriers and leaving destruction in its wake. The flip is similar, with a bouncier drum line that's sure to get your head nodding, whilst its back end moves and sways with serious force. Big.
Review: This release honestly doesn't mess around. It carries a serious sense of potency despite its clear lack of sophistication, because D&B of this type simply isn't about sophistication, it's about making something so filthy the audience won't even understand what hit them. Jinx has certainly accomplished that here, I mean just have a listen to the rippling sines, percussive naughtiness and bassline badassery that is 'LSD', a beautifully spacious tune that still manages to make you feel like you've been attacked by a dog. This is a crazy release from start to finish.
Review: Shoes off for Kalum! The rising Bristol blender touches down on Straight Up with four remarkable cuts. "Run It" is an absolute heaver, the type of stinker you could imagine Randall knocking heads with at 3am. "Lively" sees him team up with fellow west country vibe maestro Jinx on a breezy liquid vibe while "My Town" takes us to the roughest ends, tickles us silly with blazing bass saws and fetches us an Uber home. Finally "Do You Ever" closes with a dreamy vocal loop and heavy heads down pressure. Do you ever... Want to throw that shoe?
Review: Dream for a "Requiem"? You're in the right place mate. Jinx returns to his new label Straight Up with four more stank attacks. "Dun Know" sets the scene, all loose limbed and bulbous with its tubular bass rolls while "Original" (with Shogun) takes us down a much more tunnelling 97 style route. Elsewhere the title track flexes on a serious elastic vibe with a low swung Moving Fusion feel before Shogun joins the fray once again for the rave-tinged finale. Pitched vocals, rattle breaks and classic detuned synths ahoy, this one's a straight up keeper.
Review: Straight Up Audio, straight up fire! Jinx presents his brand new label to the game and he's doing it with a serious statement of intent: "Snakes & Blaggers", a near-album sized packet of party slappers all sitting pretty on the fertile ground between jump up, jungle and tech. From the venomous riff on "Holding It Down" to the tunnelling paranoia hardcore bass spirals of "Sekkle" via the nasty rasps and swinging breaks of "Bun Dem" this epic EP epitomises the label's vision: no subsubsubgenres, no pigeon holes, just straight up dnb. Blaggers need not apply...
