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Review: Swiss duo QZB finally unveil their long-awaited debut album and it's a sleek, stunning body of work that purrs and pumps with precision and growls and grooves with glowing grace. Featuring link-ups with the likes of Charli Brix, T Man, Mara Sophia, MC XL and Hadley, there's a fluency and fluidity across the collection that takes you on a journey through the most futurist and delicate of drum & bass pastures. From the emotional yearns of 'Dangerously High' to the much darker aggression of 'Combat Drugs', this is QZB at their most honest, heaviest and direct. Onwards!
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CRITLP 018
20 Oct 23
Drum & Bass / Jungle
20 Oct 23
Drum & Bass / Jungle
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CRITLP018S 2
29 Sep 23
Drum & Bass / Jungle
29 Sep 23
Drum & Bass / Jungle
Review: Critical's resident Swiss wizards are back at it with this five-tracker, their first full length EP since Perspectives Vol. 1 last year. It's a textbook QZB, who are absolute geniuses at producing music bedded in techy depth, and who work across the full spectrum from deft, frivolous touches to all-out dancefloor heat. The title track here is the former, with oscillating synth nodes that ebb in and out of the mix, a liquid vibe that's metallic in texture yet remains distinctly soulful. 'Unforgiving' is the opposite, a foghorn-laced tech destroyer with astonishingly good use of space, a track which simultaneously feels stripped-back and full to the brim. 'Silence Rings Loudest' is probably the most creative; imagine a mixture of BOP and Frederic Robinson and you'll be close, as featherweight drums rise and fall in delicate crescendos of nostalgic robotics. Delightful.
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CRIT 156
22 Jan 21
Drum & Bass / Jungle
22 Jan 21
Drum & Bass / Jungle
Review: Swiss mandem Qbig & Zenith B have undergone a total re-focus and re-branding to return as QZB. And this heavyweight, multi-flavoured beast is this is their crucial opening statement. Covering more ground than they have in the past, but all with a consistent signature that's both powerful and stark, across the EP we're treated to space-age minimal rollers ("WYGD" and "Valhalla"), ghetto-busting footwork funk ("Apollo"), gritty riff steppery ("Turning Point") and sublime soul-burning halftime ("Revenant") Make no mistakes: the Basel boys have just upped several gears... This should not be slept on.
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CRITSYS 009
15 Sep 17
Drum & Bass / Jungle
15 Sep 17
Drum & Bass / Jungle
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CRIT 108
06 Apr 18
Drum & Bass / Jungle
06 Apr 18
Drum & Bass / Jungle
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FLXA 168
17 Feb 23
Drum & Bass / Jungle
17 Feb 23
Drum & Bass / Jungle
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FLXA 057
26 Aug 16
Drum & Bass / Jungle
26 Aug 16
Drum & Bass / Jungle
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FLXA 107
03 Jul 20
Drum & Bass / Jungle
03 Jul 20
Drum & Bass / Jungle
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FLXA 147
11 Feb 22
Drum & Bass / Jungle
11 Feb 22
Drum & Bass / Jungle
Review: Flexout dig back through the annals and throw up a cool switcheroo; Swiss soundsmiths QZB take Vorso's breakthrough stab-fest "Needle" from last year and give it a skippy rolling double-time shake up that retains all the venom of the original version. Meanwhile man-of-the-moment Vorso gives QZB's icy 2016 grizzler and an absolutely savage halftime flip. Loaded with big synth flurries on the fills, there's a cool stench of 2010 to behold as the track develops. Massive.
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FLXA 075
27 Jul 18
Drum & Bass / Jungle
27 Jul 18
Drum & Bass / Jungle
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DMND 027
28 Aug 15
Drum & Bass / Jungle
28 Aug 15
Drum & Bass / Jungle
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COUNTERPOINT 007
21 Dec 15
Drum & Bass / Jungle
21 Dec 15
Drum & Bass / Jungle
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SYNDROME 14028
01 Dec 14
Drum & Bass / Jungle
01 Dec 14
Drum & Bass / Jungle
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BLAU 015D
30 Sep 16
Drum & Bass / Jungle
30 Sep 16
Drum & Bass / Jungle
Various
Review: Reload, reboot, re-up... Critical Music shutdown their 20th anniversary sonic shenanigans with this humungous remix collection that features pretty much every respected and hugely talented artist Kasra's label has ever worked with. 23 cuts fresh for 2023, every single track is guaranteed to slap and tickle and dancefloor right the way through to summer, especially the likes of Foreign Concept's synth-twisting take on 'AYO', Particle's contemporary jungle take on 'Grave', Buunshin's emotional take on 'Sane' and Hyroglifics' deep and smouldering take on 'Wingwalker'. All this and so much more, this is why Critical Music are at the top of the game right now. Exemplary.
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CRITLPXXCC
08 Jan 23
Drum & Bass / Jungle
08 Jan 23
Drum & Bass / Jungle
Various
Review: Celebrating two decades deep in the game, Critical Music deliver this exceptional 22 track collection from some of the most innovative artists in the bass field. From old label mates such as Sam Binga, Mefjus and Ivy Lab to exciting newcomer talents like Spectral, Able and Cauzer, the entire collection is a blistering jolt of futurism that ranges the full Critical spectrum. Highlights range from the introspective tones of Buunshin's 'Forget About Me' to the dark, tense minimalism of Calibre's 'Verstat' by way of the barbed soul of Halogenix's 'IDGAF'. Here's to another 20 years...
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CRITLPXX
12 May 22
Drum & Bass / Jungle
12 May 22
Drum & Bass / Jungle
Various
Review: 2018 is the second year in a row that Critical Music dropped a surprise release for us on Christmas Day, 2017 seeing the Modified Sonics album full of VIPs and exclusive remixes. New Energy Vol.1, however, is a totally different deal and that's because it's 18 brand new, exclusive tunes from those deep inside the Critical camp and those just entering it. The whole roster is represented: Kasra, Enei, Mefjus, Emperor, Foreign Concept, The Upbeats - and so on. But, excitingly, there's new talent in the form of Bou, Synth Ethics, Simula, Kanine and more. Mefjus' remix of 'Projections' arguably takes the cake as the best tune on here - absolute murderation. This is Critical's statement of intent for 2019.
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CRITLP 014
08 Jan 19
Drum & Bass / Jungle
08 Jan 19
Drum & Bass / Jungle
Various
Review: Time for a freshness flex: Shogun return to their new and rising talent series Point Of Origin and once again it's a big deal with 15 crucial cuts from 20 outstanding and future-shaping artists; from the already established and massively respected such as Serum, Paul T & Edward Oberon, who follow up last year's massive "Take My Breath Away" with the deep space slinker "Burning", and Paul SG with his decidedly wobbled-out drumstick snapping roller "Holy Moly" right the way through to exciting new energies in the dance like Phaction, with his ghostly-vocalled soul-out "Distant Lovers" and Neve & Crimson's beautifully blue-notated jazz drum dark-out "Solar Rain" and so many stunning cuts in between (Mitekiss, Gerra & Stone, Was A Be, Macca & Loz Contreras, the list goes on) this is Shogun at its most exciting and forward-thinking.
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SHA 127
13 Oct 17
Drum & Bass / Jungle
13 Oct 17
Drum & Bass / Jungle
