Review: All aboard the Wobble Infection remix express! Rounding up another storming year, the Belgian bass HQ have commissioned a fat stack of re-rubs: Rowney adds a warmer tone to Kenji's "Born In It", Jack The Ripper adds a little spikiness to "Sometimes It's Better", Envenom refocuses the bass textures on "Headshot" to a laser-point while Simskai busses up the paranoid horror feels on "Pot Of Gold". Elsewhere we have Stompz going loco on "Drop Cut", Kenji tearing "Born Killer" to pieces and rebuilding with spit and venom while Certified flips the finale switch with oddball funk flare on "What". Savage.
Review: Wobble Infectious Digital is a jump up label based in Antwerp, you can hear it's Belgian influence in the tracks which very much cherry pick elements form the full dnb spectrum to create something of a superior quality. Here we have a killer collection of collaborations which delve into the deeper, darker side of the dancefloor style. 'Garon' sets the president for the calibre of the EP, a glitchy shuffling break makes the body of the track which is fleshed out with a pulsating wobble the dirtiest of floors can get down too. 'Rickity Wrekt' is packed with metalic clashes and broken beeps but the stand out section is the bubbling low end. 'Wait Till' warns you of the long, almost vertical drop with its wild horn, akin to a run away ghost train, with understated jungle samples and pounding sub this one is a banger. 'Drop Top' mixes a slow, hip hop break with freaky sci-fi elements, and a deafeningly high pitch.
Aclypse & Insert K - "Kill Like A Vulture" (feat MC Kolapse) - (4:26) 175 BPM
Skura - "Degrade" - (4:50) 172 BPM
Review: Wooiii get your screwfaces and gun fingers ready, loud, aggressive and full of fun, this entire EP encapsulates everything good jump up should be. 'Truth' has a collection of sounds which make it sound incredibly important and almost regal. 'Anything You Say Kid' is an absolute ba-hanger full of weird sci-fi, plinky plunky sounds, if very different to your usual. With anticipation building, horror show worthy glimmer's before plummeting in to dark swaths of pulsating lasers, we know we really are 'In a Special Kind of Space'. 'Degrade' walks us into a more deep and techy realm, with filthy distortion and metallic sounds.
Review: Who's your daddy? Don't answer, it was a rhetorical question. We all know the answer; it's Dangerous. Back packing slaps with pals old and new, his third instalment of "Dangerous & Friends" is K.O after K.O; highlights include the classic sample and sci-fi synths of "B Wing" the creepy drama and skin-melting drop of "Hands Off" and two delightfully trippy remixes with Belgian badman Basstripper. With friends like these who needs enemies?
Review: Full moon madness: south coast riff wizard Lupo gathers his pack for a late night prowl of the murkiest proportions. Each track features a kindred rising spirit as Lupo rolls out an immense collaborative package where every track hits with a different slant. Just check the variety and spread between the bass depth plunges on "Finger Of Doom" and Dispatch-style restrained and you get an understanding of the badness breadth we're dealing with here. You'd be howling to miss this...
Review: Released last summer, Fraksure's ridiculously guttural, slime-funk banger "Broken Enemies" was served up for remix competition justice... And these winning results speak for themselves. Telekom adds a gritty mechanical bitterness to the bass tones, "K Motionz" injects raw drama into proceedings while Trafalgar shows he's anything but square with a devilish halftime dubstep-influenced swagger. You want more do you? Good... Stompz has twisted the original into a dense stepper laced with an array of fresh designs and there's even a VIP from Frakky himself. Broken? You will be...
Review: Insanity jams: Subsonic & Fraksure collide for five pieces of pure mayhem. "The Maze" is almost operatic with its strings and its screaming bass riff, "Born Killer" shoots lazers so hard and fast you'll be in need of new trousers while "Sound Killa" causes sub murderation with its foggy, droning intro and ruthlessly lean subby drop. Elsewhere "The Beast" balances an incredible hammer horror score sample with a vicious sandpaper riff while "Apocalypse" gives us a finite date on human extinction with soaring reeses and a riff that guarantees nightmares. Epic scenes.
Review: Contrary to popular belief, Wolfie isn't just fine...He's in the rudest health possible. Hells, he's fighting so fit he can accidentally crush your bones when he shakes your hand. Serious production muscles: "Evil Within" twists and shakes with a crafty off-beat funk while "Possessed" takes us deep into a midnight crypt where ghosts of jump up past, present and future make us question our every atom. "What You Need" brings the soul back with a classic vocal snippet that shatters into a million pieces when the rasping bass twists into the mix while "Respect" crushes on climax with industrial strength bass. Wild.
Review: Bou-Tanging, banger-flinging, vibe-smashing upstart Bou has amassed a serious body of work over the last two years. Now making his Wobble Infection debut with another comprehensive, widescreen EP, it showcases even more vibes and styles than he's previously shown. "Donut" and is a fine example - silky and restrained, it's a deeper side to the gully professor you might expect. Elsewhere we get perfect soul/savage counterpoint on "Purple" while "Pot Of Gold" is an exercise in bass designs and "Last Chance" lulls gently before a sneering but carefully tamed bass drone sweeps your feet. "Depth" brings us to a fitting end as Endo writes D&B the love letter we've all wanted to write but could never find the right words.
Review: The Dirty Latvian strikes again! This time he's in major league collabo mode: Jack The Ripper brings out some stark contrasts as the rasping jump-up riff drops into an emotional breakdown. Basstripper brings out the lazer bass and gritty triplets and mild jazz tones while Bou brings out a reversed trippiness to Kenji's bass. Deeper again "Born In It" sees Kenji going solo with a pointed, punctuated bass cascase while the final collabo sees him getting all jagged and darked out with Dispoze. Total tag team terror.
Review: Thoroughbred jump up from Phantom Dub Digital bossman Shrust. "Gunman" is as militant as its title suggests with a raw, insistent hook and precision positioned vocal while "Join Us" is straight out of Majistrate's book with its outrageous hook that tonally twists further and further up the paranoid scale. "Adventure" balances shade with its blissful tropical shore intro and cement melting bass texture before we climax with the ugliest cut of the bunch as "Underground" smacks of Original Sin-level muscle. Comparisons in this field don't come any bigger.
Review: Sizzling seatbelt-fastening steppery, Frakshure makes his Wobble Infection debut with a grizzly talky-bass debut where the tubular bass tones are so well tuned it really does feel like they're singing. Dipping into both drumsteppy and breakbeaty sections with the careful guidance of Kolapse, it's a bona fide thriller in all directions. Remix-wise Simula adds a cheeky kerb-biting edge of aggro. Hold on tight.
Review: Murderation! Jack The Ripper is firing through the releases like his namesake shredded victims: his fourth release in just over two months, it's badman business as usual as he cooks up three happy-slapping shredders, each one peppered with the commanding charms of MC Kolapse. From the bleak broken glass riff of "Armageddon" to the higher-end middy bass and ghostly breakdown of "Search & Destroy" by way of the straight-up grit of the loaf-smoking "Kilo", it's instant dancefloor carnage from the dangerous D&B dagger-wielder.
Review: Northampton wobble wizard Fraksure reminds us that timing is everything: even if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time. "Keep It Locked" kick starts the four track rampage with its sly jungle drum sheen to the gurgling bass groans. "Peace Love & Riots" is a metallic ode to the finer things in life with two well-chiselled bass designs going toe-to-toe in a bare knuckle sonic death match. Those looking for an element of cheekiness and funk in their jump-up should jump straight on "Play With Me" thanks to its rolling shakers, tightly edited drums and carefree bass licks. And that's before we get to the heavy drama and deeply coded paranoia of the EP's title track... Guarantee to fracture floors all over.
Review: First of all, calling a tune "Jeff" is cool. Second of all, the UK/Belgian partnership's 22 Jump Street sampling original has been a key jump-up banger since the spring 2015. Third of all, each of these remixes take "Jeff" into exciting new creative pastures: Franksure changes the key of the horns to create a more positive sense of funk, Simula adds a deeper, junglist roll to the vibe while MAMF get tweaky on the original's high end riff. Complete with the essential VIP version, this is an example of when memes can inspire genuinely awesome tracks.
Review: Something of a newcomer to the scene and a bit of mystery, Blackmask claims to call New Zealand, the USA and Germany his home. There's clearly influences from all three countries involved in his production as you can't get crazed, electro-driven insanity like this by sticking to one local style. Germany rings out most in the Phace/Noisia/Misanthrop of "Supreme Power" and the dark, dangerous sounds of "Combat Evil" bring America's Evol Intent to mind. Extreme energy and a filthy undercurrent. Gotta love that combination.
Review: Wobble Infection brings their Antwerpian bedroom-based label ever closer to the big time with the grimy, dark and devastating sounds of Dangerous and Various, an outfit whose slash and burn approach to production leave homeland crowds smashed to pieces. Inspired by the likes of Hype and hazard, their style of upfront drum and bass also grabs aspects of European neuro at times, blending the two into a nasty mixture of heavyweight bass and nosebleed rapidfire percussion. Get yourself a neck brace, you'll be snapping to this.
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