Drum & Bass Recommendations March 2011

Review: Not content with scooping up all the plaudits for Rockwell's recent killer Aria double twelve - you heard the Untold collab right? - Critical Sounds go East and go hard with this brutal tech step collab between Estonia's Enei and Russian's Noel and Eastcolours. "Cracker" twists screaming sub bass around crisp metallic syncopation and rolling snares that crash around brilliantly. On the flip Enei goes solo on the clipped digital half step of "Danger Dance" that demonstrates a schizophrenic understanding of beat programming that's reminiscent of Bricolage era Amon Tobin married with the contemporary sonic aesthetics of the aforementioned Jack Dunning.