Review: Hey there multi-genre DJ. So you like to mix up the tempos in your sets do you? I bet you think it makes you look really cool? Well it does. Especially when you're playing around with transition tunes like 'House Tune' by the unstoppable Conrad Subs; a purring slab of bass weight drama that suddenly drops into the sweetest slo-mo house groove one could ever ask for. Long enough to loop out and go off-piste, short enough to keep the vibes alive and the die-hard D&B heads from moaning (too much) it's the Subby one doing what he does best. Need something a little deeper and floatier? Look no further than 'Night Talk'. What a release!
Review: DJ Hybrid's Deep In The Jungle has done bits for the new generation of artists coming through since it launched in 2013. Now hitting the big 100, the label is celebrating with a collection of incredible remixes of label classics from some of the best in the game. This first volume sees DJ Hybrid himself tearing up Conrad Subs 'Come Selecta', Toby Ross & Oram getting all steppy and slammy on the bossman's 'Run Dem', Epicentre going well and truly loco on Charlie B's 'Rotation'. Elsewhere Conrad Subs returns the favour on Mrs Magoo & DJ Hybrid's 'Back to 96' with bubblesome results while Charlie B finishes off the EP with a killer twist on 'When It's Time'. What a package... And there's more to come!
Review: The unstoppable Conrad Subs returns to Liondub with this absolutely firing four-piece that flexes across the whole D&B jungle spectrum. 'Ravers' lights the fire with smashed up breakbeat action before '4U' takes us deep into the lesser-spotted paranoid side of Conrad's sound. 'Under Pressure' meanwhile is another wild ride back on the breakbeat train before 'Proper Things' closes with some of the most rumbly subs you'll hear all month. Pure batteridge!
Review: Fresh from the label's 100th celebrations comes this absolute flame thrower of an EP from the ubiquitous Conrad Sub. Six cuts in total, each one tickling a different corner of the drum & bass jungle underbelly, we flex and fling between Rupture level breakage on the title track 'Nexus' and soulful tones and rubber ball bass throwing on 'Lose U'. Elsewhere we're leaping around to raw jazz funk on 'Rock Your Soul' and getting bouncy on the late 90s wobbler 'It Goes On'. What a package.
Review: "Firefly" is a soothing and atmospheric deep house track that showcases Conrad's talent for creating immersive soundscapes. The track features a smooth and groovy bassline, subtle piano chords and delicate synth melodies that evoke the feeling of a starry night. The vocals by Rosanne Cash add a touch of warmth and emotion to the track, as she sings about finding light in the darkness. "Firefly" is the perfect track for relaxing, meditating or even dreaming. A beautiful and uplifting piece of music that deserves to be heard.
Review: Get ready for the eighth instalment of 'Deep In The Jungle Anthems' with an all-star cast as the label bossman calls in two close allies and super-skilled kindred spirits. First up is the powerful 'Give It Up' where Hybrid goes toe-to-toe-to-toe with Conrad Subs and Mrs Magoo to sculpt this perfectly bubbly late 90s Die-style bouncer. Elsewhere the bossman goes it alone on the turbo charged slap-about 'The Last Bumbaclaat' before Conrad closes the EP with 'Keep Breakin' which is a huge head nod to the legacy of Aphrodite and Micky Finn. Bring on the album!
Review: Conrad Subs has been consistent with his assault over the last few years, doing damage on a whole gamut of labels from Deep In The Jungle to Liondub International via Nuusic and exploring a whole range of styles and vibes. But this debut on Break's Symmetry feels like a real step up. Famously operating a very high quality control, a co-sign from Charlie Break is a massive compliment... Which is reflected in the weight and flavour of these tracks. 'Cool Off' is a bubbly stinker with shades of jungle and little echoes of squidgy bass while 'Gross' buzzes and vibes on a more cosmic flex. Big.
Review: Conrad Subs has been teasing his next album over the last few weeks and finally it's here, courtesy of Nuusic, and boy what an LP it has turned out to be. Conrad Subs is very confident when it comes to constructing break beats and so it should come as no suprise that they make up a large part of Tides, to excellent effect. 'On a 90s Tip' is an especially potent track, with that classic rave piano sound driving an inch-perfect set of drums and a rolling reece bass. 'Obese' is yet more spectacular stepping sonics, whilst 'Little Vibey Thing' blends R&B vocal infuences with juddering drums and punchy, unforgetablly catchy bass stabs. It's a raw, gritty album and not one to be missed.
Review: Conrad Subs unleashes more dubs! This time he's flexing on Liondub International with no less than five floor-firing shock-outs for the season. 'Call It Love' breaks the seal with its busy flips between soulful depths and junglised bubblesome bass licks. It's backed by plenty more heat: 'Bad Behaviour' whips out a gnarly reese that slugs everything in sight, 'Problematic' is all about the high energy cuts and slaps, 'Spoilt Rotten' takes us to the furthest point of the solar system while 'Love Is Passion' brings us back home again with pure gulliness. Call it sick.
Review: Somewhere on a dancefloor far, far away... Deep In The Jungle rallied up the troops for another bout of highly competitive (and exceedingly gully) Jungle Wars. The results were a high energy shoot out of historic proportions as all artists brought their very best to the battle. Here we have three fine examples as three artists, all very much on top of their game right now, lay down more teasers ahead of the album... Conrad Subs brings a little hardcore fever with the feels-heavy 'Wild Style', Epicentre's 'Cantankerous' will have you running to mumsy while Euphonique delivers one of her hardest hitting, warp-frenzied tracks to date in the form of 'No Problem'. The force is strong on these ones!
Review: These two cuts are taken from a forthcoming various artists album on DJ Hybrid's Deep In The Jungle imprint, and the boss himself is joined by Mrs Magoo and Conrad Subs for a single that gets right to the core of the label's ethos. 'Back To 96' is a time travel machine that takes you back to the days of rolling reece basses and frantic percussive work, simpler times when all you needed was the barebones to create a vibe. Conrad Subs goes in a funkier direction, with brash brass notes that lead into a wobbling concoction of bouncing basslines and innocent clubland notes. Cracking.
Review: DJ Hybrid's Deep In The Jungle label is one of the hottest destinations for first class jungle that exists right now, and his curational skills are back in force with this four-tracker from Conrad Subs and Grimesy, two producers who are absolutely on a roll. This is proper barebones stuff and two worlds are merged with the dulcet vocal tones of Lizzy Stringer on 'Time', which sees vocal magic float above a tight, penetrating jungle beat. There is a reece bass to die for on 'Red Rum', whilst 'Golden Era' sees a warped-out foghorn bash around its clattering junglist foundations with serious attitude. Top release.
Review: DJ Hybrid's Deep In The Jungle continues to smash 2022 to pieces even with its 2023 releases... Here lies a sampler of the label's first big release of the new year 'Deep In The Jungle Anthems' from three super talented names across the DITJ spectrum. Lowriderz and Smoky D get the party started with the super crispy and toasty rattler named in tribute to the main man himself 'Hybrid Skank', newcomer Fez smashes us to pieces with a sick UKG sampling monster 'Girls Like Us' while the unstoppable Conrad Subs closes the EP with walloping 'Shakin'. Dig deep!
Review: Having already made a name for themselves in the VA game with their 'Sub Heavy Hitters' series, Sub Heavy Audio get busy with a brand new VA EP concept - 'Recycled'. It's business as usual though as some of the label's most prolific and heavyweight names bring fire for the occasion... Damageman kicks off with the theatrical late 2000s flavoured 'Bassline Business', Conrad Subs shows off his love for formative steppy Virus vibes while J.O.E goes full-on Bristol with the chugging bassline groove of 'Eternal'. Finally Dec James finishes the EP on a slammy, bashy jungle stomper 'Falsehood'. Feel the burn!
Review: The unavoidable Conrad Subs jumps aboard the good ship Murky with another incendiary dispatch of full-flavoured bangers he's calling the 'Widowmaker' EP. Killer tunes for a killer title, each cut hits hard first and doesn't even bother to ask questions later. 'Dormant' is all about those subtle wobbles, 'Causing Danger' tickles with a few wry grime elements in the mix, 'Widowmaker' is all about the aggy rifle-like staccato bassline fire while 'Nasty Shit' lives up to its name in every filthy, low-slinging way possible. Last but not least 'Aftermath' brings us the dramatic conclusion we need but totally don't deserve. Massive as always with Conrad.
Review: Following a streak of releases this year from Yatuza, Confusious and L-Kind, Weapons of Choice Recordings usher in their first compilation for the year in style. Looking to the remix for inspiration, Command Strange is first up taking on Confusious with a ragga-tipped, stepped-up, rave-rolling bomb! New kid on the block Lankzi goes 'back & forth' with a sweet vocal rhythm and workout of Conrad Subs's heavy original, with Quadrant & Iris perfectly liquifying Gunston's "Stay Real". With some horror themes and supernatural motifs taking over the atmospheric passages of FX909's Malicious, Molecular's remix caps off a fresh update of Weapons of Choice Recordings' fine back catalogue.
Review: 'Glory' glory hallelujah, we're barely a week into 2021 and Conrad Subs has already dropped a humungous EP on our laps. Coming via the ever-consistent and check-on-sight label Liondub International, it's a full-spectrum exploration as the Ipswich artist digs deep across the board. 'Higher & Higher' starts us off on a deeper note before 'Glory' goes all in with a raw, rough Dread-style sound before 'Ultron' straps us into a rocket and shoots us beyond the known galaxy. Wrapping up the EP we have the techno influenced 'Scatter' and the cheekiest, junglised head-chopper of the set: 'Murda Style'. Killer material.
Review: With some cool, dark, artwork, Conrad Subs has landed on Deep in the Jungle with a hard-hitting five-tracker which combines a penetrating sense of attitude with a non-nonsense approach to musical arrangements. 'Love 4 U' has an warped-out, Souped Up vibe in its arrangement that feels powerful to the extreme and is perfect for a crowded dancefloor, especially with its underpinning in some weighty percussion. 'Funk Me Sideways' is the roller of the EP and grounded in wobbly atmospherics and a sense of space which makes it a pleasure to listen to, its snapping drum line providing the ground rock underneath. The rest are proper sick as well - big ups.
Review: With releases on STAT, Inna Rhythm and Soul Deep Digital already under his cap this year, Conrad Subs makes his debut on DJ Hybrid's Deep In The Jungle with five more rowdy workouts. "Rampin" tickles a pungent whiff of Bristol thanks to its harmonic bassline riff, "Dubrock" is all trippy drums and gunshots, "Spit Shine" takes us deep into the rave with a Binga-style jitteriness while "Let Me Go" turns us inside out with its turbo bass shots, sirens and rampant drumwork. Finally "Basic Replay" closes on a slick sick steppy fix. Easily Conrad's most comprehensive and hardest hitting collection so far.
Review: Choose Conrad Subs. Choose Deep In The Jungle. Choose a lifetime of being happy-slapped by amens and tickled in the gut by long rumbling subs the size of elephants. Choose collaborations with DJ Hybrid like the swaggering "Rinse It". Choose absolutely slamming Urban Takeover-style 96 era jump-up "Rough Beats" and skank so hard you give yourself a hernia. Choose sexy vocals like the ones on "Through My Eyes". Choose the insanely brutal slammage of "Imperial Roots" and feel like you need to take a long hot shower afterwards and still feel like you're covered in engine oil. Choose this EP and double dropping every track tune fi tune. Choose bludclart jungle. It's the ravers choice...
Review: Put this release on, close your eyes and you can almost see Boomtown: the sprawling crowds, the bucket hats and the fat stacks of speakers undoubtedly blaring out something that sounds a lot like Conrad Sub's Boombox EP. A combination of ragga jungle and harder flavours, this release epitomizes the feel-good yet moody take on music so common to this side of the scene. 'Batty Rider' rolls and rolls, with Break-esque sub-bass dives and growling sine wobbles that beautifully transform into rowdy jungle. 'Flood Out' features some more chilled out jungle atmospherics that still pack a punch, once more containing a mid-way switch into naughty breaks. The other three also all absolutely slam - sick release.
Review: Conrad Subs is one of the best talents in the current smorgasbord that is the D&B scene, his rough and ready sound blends jump up currents with jungle stutters and it's ideal for any situation. He's been putting in the graf for years and Larger carries on that trend on Deep In The Jungle and blimey, it's pretty damn good. 'Larger' is our favourite, with a hypnotic sample that grounds its cracking percussive knocks within a framework of bassy shudders and groaning sweeps. It's a proper Manchester-esque sound, yes boys!
Review: Conrad continues to lay down supreme contemporary dnb jungle as he returns to DJ Hybrid's Deep In The Jungle with this very handsome six-piece. 'Gold Selection' says it all as a big soul sample brings the heat over a rolling, rattling breakbeat. The rest of the EP maintains the high level with big moments like the overwhelming sub rumbles on 'Let's Jungle' and an overdriven roll-out that's so bad-ass, you'd think it came out of Bristol around 97 on Dope Dragon. Bossman Hybrid joins the situation for a super-smoky sign-out on the sax-tooting 'Wings'... Watch out for that late entering bassline twist!
Review: With upwards of 20 releases this year, it's been a crazy busy 2018 for rising new-gen breaksmith Conrad Subs. He's not showing any signs of slowing down either as this return to DJ Hybrid's Deep In The Jungle imprint proves... There's a wry nod to speed garage on the Rip Groove saluting "Special Request" and the 187 Lockdown referencing "Come Selecta" while elsewhere we have rapid ragga chats on "XXL", deeper sci fi funk on "Sound Killa", absolutely savage breakbeat shattery on "Lions Dub" and stone cold jungle finale "Run The Track". Pure drum craftsmanship, watch out for the sweet bluesy sample on the intro because it's the only respite Conrad's going to give you. Just the way it should be.
Review: Following up some great releases recently on Original Key and Liquid Bass, Ipswich-based DJ and producer Conrad Subs is back this week on Deep In The Jungle with his new one entitled "Calm". It's a proper old school junglist roller featuring the lyrical skills of MC Neat, and some beautiful soulful vocals by Sammie Hall. Despite the title, the Jungle mix is more of a techy stepper with an early aughts sound to it, and we liked it all the same. Also featured are some instrumental versions for your rinsing pleasure.
Review: If you ain't misbehaving, you ain't worth saving... Hybrid's Audio Addict return to the ravey series they set in 2016 with another hard-slapping six-piece. Do-no-wrong Kumarachi reminds us why he's boss with a stuttering jungle roll and demonically pitched vocal samples, Conrad Subs calls on everyone's favourite macabre aged WWE wrestler by way of twist think break devilry while Hybrid fine-tunes his 20/20 vision with a stinking halftime romp. Elsewhere Riffz lashes out on the razz snares, the mysterious Scartip skins us alive with his rim shots and Habitat strips things back with some beautiful time-stretched drum work. Be good now.
Review: The unstoppable Subster returns with yet more beefy breakbeat bangers to slap liberally on your chops. Four cuts, four opportunities to wheel up and wind up your dancefloor as Conrad tells us how it is. 'Don't Blame The DJ' sets the tone with a sick GQ sample and a warning about leaky roofs. 'Good Good Dub' brings a little dubwise skanky panky to the mix while 'IPS' goes for that old school stabby vibe with precision and tension. Finally man like Aries steps up for a ridiculously sick remix of Conrad's previous Nuusic outing 'Little Vibey Thing'. Don't blame the download store if this melts your next dancefloor.
Review: Nothing old, nothing blue, nothing borrowed, all things NUU. Once again the Nuusic crew deliver with another EP designed to make you shout 'Crikey!' quite a lot. Pairing up High Frequency and Conrad Subs, the whole collection bubbles across their solo pieces and co-labs: 'Nation' is big warm skanky banger, 'Ignite' purrs with tension and drama, 'Give It To Me' is a hype-inducing full-thrust ravey shake-down while High Frequency's remix of 'In Check' finishes the EP with nothing but a fat jacksy bassline and sweet shakers sent from heaven. Check in and ignite the dance today.
Review: Conrad Subs' jungle number Leave Dem has been on repeat here ever since it came out on Nuusic's recent compilation, The Sound of Nuusic. So we're excited to hear him back on the label with a full-length EP and it's just as good, with a nicely spicy mix of broken and rolling sounds spread across five tracks. Title track is proper down and dirty jungle, with the old school sampling and roughshod vibes to boot, 'In Check' is more of a rolling thing and doesn't mess around, whilst on VIP duties is his Days Are Numbered - what a rework this is. Simple but powerful. Check this one out.
Review: The Subster returns to Nuusic with some absolutely wild burn-ups right here. 'It's The Way' sets the levels with a classic vocal sample that all card carrying junglists and ravers should recognise. It's backed by plenty more heat as the EP title track goes all out on the breakbeat gullyness and one of his biggest cuts so far - 'Bump & Grind' - gets an on-point VIP twist. Finally Myth joins the fray with a crucial take on another Conrad classic 'Conviction'. Ipswich representing!
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