Review: Chris Marigold and Leo Wyndham's Blu Mar Ten label - an offshoot of their music alias of the same name - shares the third addition to the Wardown albums series by the eponymous artist, real name Peter Rodgers (of Technimatic fame). Described from the outset as a musical diary of smeared memory, Rodgers' drum & bass-focused Wardown records are accounts of dislocation - emotional, familial, local - that document and textualise the disjunction between the artist's childhood in Luton and a musical career forged elsewhere. While the first record in was packed with personal nostalgia, Wardown III charts a continuing macroscopy in sound occurrent thereafter; this time around, Rodgers incorporates a cyborgish, anthropocenic monologue as the intro, and follows it with humanistic, synaptic drum & bass expansiveness in the form of 'Perfect Your Memories', 'As They Fall' and 'Deteriation'.
Review: Wardown, the emotive and experimental project from Technimatic's Pete Rogers, releases its second LP on Blu Mar Ten Music. Where the debut Wardown album was a diary of smeared memory, musically recounting the author's childhood home and his subsequent feelings of dislocation from it, Wardown II expands on the themes of nostalgia and focuses on our collective reactions to a promised future that remains undelivered. Using aural scraps from that most optimistically futurist period, the 1950s & 1960s, Wardown weaves them into an uneasily dreamy, bittersweet commentary on postmodern nostalgia.
Review: Wilkinson is a big name when it comes to the contemporary drum & bass scene. He is someone whose name you will find on all the line-ups of the major clubs and festivals around the world and is no stranger to bringing the noise to Ibiza, either. He has a multi-genre approach that finds him playing effective and eclectic sets that appeal to all manner of crowds. Back in 2013, he dropped his debut solo album Lazers Not Included on Ram - where else - and set all this success in motion. This tenth anniversary edition comes on yellow vinyl with UK number 20 single 'Dirty Love' and many more gems.
Review: The man, the myth, the legend... Workforce returns with a brand new album and you can feel that it's a breath of fresh air from the moment the Tyler Daley opener 'Falling Down' takes the lead and sets the scene. What follows is a flow of forward-thinking drum & bass cuts, all writhing in a different corner of the dance. 'Water In The Basement' reminds us of the genre's street roots while 'Drowning' and 'Really Small Boxes' both lose themselves in the cosmic moment. Deeper again we see Worky linking with old vocal partner Tamara Blessa for the introspective soul of 'Yours For The Taking' while 'Deep Ones' sees Bobbie Johnson adding a very special twist. Wrapping up, 'How They See It' and 'Waste Not Want Not' bring the album to a suitably stunning and unique close. Beguiling.
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