Review: The crew over at Subway Soundz have packed a serious box of weapons into this new drop, welcoming the enigmatic production abilities of Jay Jay inside for five rave-ready rollers. First up, 'No Drama' takes a high pitched synth screech and fuses it with gnarly LFO slides to match, before Blackhry arrives on 'Black Smoke' for a more abstract link, focussing on unique drum designs and super choppy rhythmic twitches. Next, pure jump up heat as the belching synth crunches of 'Atomic' and speaker-jamming subs switches of 'Rejected' provide back to back punchers, with the slapping drum arrangements of 'Radiation' bringing us to a cool finale. Nice!
Review: What a wild trip it's been for Audiofelonz so far. Only going legit as a label in July, the label have been dropping monthly dispatches of utter gulliness from some of the most exciting rising stars of UK jump-up now arriving at a convenient six-monthly moment of remix reflection courtesy of Jay Jay and Decrypt. Both versions absolutely kill it, too... Jay Jay takes Foe's 'Jungle Sound' and flips the bassline into a bright and aggy attack of the senses. Decrypt, meanwhile, takes Kensei & Foe's 'Forsaken' and gives it an early 2000s style bounce. Bring on the next six months!
Review: Hey hey, it's Jay Jay! Returning to Subway Soundz once again - after a brief excursion or two on Octave and RIQYardrock - here he lays down the EP of his life in the form of 'Resistance'. Six tracks heavy (including a collab with Kenji), every cut hits hard in Jay Jay's unmistakable uncompromised way. Highlights include the croaky one note funk of 'Gangster', the slithering, alien worm-like groove of 'Ready' and the utterly euphoric jolt to the senses that is 'Move' but that's only half the EP... The whole thing is absolutely slamming. Trust us, this 'Resistance' is most definitely not futile!
Review: Such a badman they named him twice, Jay Jay makes his debut on Serial Killaz with this alien-slaying sizzler sextet. Bubbly and bouncing from the off, the title track declares war on the red planet before we dip deep into rinse-out mode. Highlights include the Teezy-collabed grunting shifter 'Clawhammer', the laser-blazing razor sharp stepper 'Dip It Low' and the sci-fi hype fest 'Demons' where the bassline melts all dancefloors in a 50 mile radius. Ready for attack?
Review: Previously spotted on Subway Soundz, Jay Jay charges head first into Octave Recordings with this feisty clutch of bruisers. Highlights include the pensive bassline drama on 'Motive', the savage little breaks fills on the title track 'No Time', the total agginess of 'Scary' (along with Instig8) and the eerie tension on 'Never Die' (with MLD) There's 'No Time' like the present eh?
Review: Following their launch release this summer, Scoped Sounds return with another many-handed bruiser bonanza. Jay Jay's driving but co-pilots throughout the trip include the likes of Magenta, Pengo and Alphaze as we're flung from bassline pillar to breakbeat post. Highlights include the filtered string sweep on the lead track 'The Thing', the warbling reverse bassline and KO punch energy of 'Everything Cool' and the dramatic stabs and a grizzly bassline twist on 'Questions' but to be real, the whole EP hits hard. A very exciting snapshot of where jump up is at as we skank into 2023.
D-Fuser, Havok & Jay Jay - "Like That" - (4:24) 175 BPM
Jay Jay - "Sour" - (4:34) 175 BPM
Jay Jay - "Asylum" - (4:34) 175 BPM
Review: Next up on Norwich-based Jumped Up this week is a new one by the enigmatic Jay Jay, with four reliable rollers on the Psychotic EP. The title track starts off sounding a little bit ethereal in the vein of liquid drum and bass, before that wonky bassline drops and you're like 'OK now we've got a party!'. This is followed by a collaboration with the dream team: Kent-based producer D-Fuser (Gradient/Pin Pan Audio) with Havok on "Like That" as well as two more tight tech steppers in the form of "Sour" and "Asylum" respectively.
Review: Shrewsbury soldier Jay Dubz steps over to Soul Deep Digital with three outstanding rollers. "Forgone" balances deep dream atmospheres with a venomous bassline that slithers deep in the underbelly and "The Beginning" is a sweeping, emotionally-charged workout with big strings and lilting, poignant chords and some immaculate amen work. We glide back into reality softly with "Mankind" where hushed pads float softly around a crisp break, gradually rising to an evocative breakdown. Begin again.
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