Tony Anthem & Axl Ender - "Rocking It" (feat Prolific & Cojaxx)
BMC - "Bro" (feat Slim Thug)
Review: FoulPlay are fighting fit with a fearsome four-pack right here. With label mainstays 6Blocc and Prolific pulling the punches, it's a knock-out session from the very first round. "Party All Day" takes a little EDM/hip-hop schmoozing and throws it down with and a trap-esque flare. "Get Real", meanwhile, is more you classic bro sound with a screaming bass and savage hooks. Elsewhere we find Tony Anthem and Axl Ender spitting fast-flow bars over a classic saw-tooth ("Rocking It") and BMC bashing off the haters over repetitive streams of toxic laser bass ("Bro").
Review: Peaky Beats is a great name for a label that serves up such irresistible house and garage jams as it has so far over its first eight EPs. This ninth outing is no less desirable, coming from the in house production team in collaboration with Breakfake. 'Life In Stereo' hits a perfect note between kinetic drums and soulful, jazzy chords deigned to melt the heart. 'Rat City' is more filthy - a warped bassline screws about beneath more sleazy broken beats. 'Chapel Town' brings low end dubstep wobble to the party and 'Dub The Acid' is another filthy dirty skanker with echoing hits and mutant bass.
Review: Causa and Pharma link-up for one of Locus Sounds' rare vinyl outings and the vibes are set as high as ever. Two originals from both, each one remixing each other's tunes, Causa kicks off with 'Kreamy', an industrial weight growler that's given a dubby touch by Pharma on the rub. Meanwhile on the flip, Pharma heads in an easterly direction with the intense pressure and swagger of 'Shift' before Causa charges the groove up with a bulbous, funk-oozing bassline. Kream if you wanna go faster.
Review: As he waves goodbye to his most illustrious alias, Hessle Audio's David Kennedy is offered the chance to fully embrace another! Posited as forgotten hero of Chicago House - check the affiliated Twitter account for some amusing caps heavy rants - Maurice Donovan was first unleashed via a remix of Julio Bashmore earlier this year. He gets now centre stage on Hemlock offshoot SSSSS to fully indulge his love of the classic Chicago sound with two jams that naturally look forward as well as back. Donovan flexes his 808 skills on the stripped down tease of A Side "Babeh" with the ever present titular refrain cannoning around the subterranean beneath the satisfying rhythmic undulations. "Satisfied" is a looser, sexier joint characterised by breathy female vocals and a slightly deranged organ sample. Perhaps the best thing about this twelve however is the deliciously retro cover design!
Review: There's not a lot of info about Scott Gailey Spring's first album as Hotspring, though Mood Hut's description of it being, 'digital technology half buried in the soil', is rather good. Throughout, Gailey employs a brilliantly inventive, off-kilter mixture of tipsy, off-kilter drumbeats, distant auto-tuned vocalizations, manipulated new age music sounds, pulsing ambient chords, fluttering electronic motifs and knowing nods to future R&B. It's extremely hard to accurately describe, but both brilliantly beautiful and undeniably eccentric: the kind of album that will have you scratching your head and smiling enthusiastically at the same time. If you don't believe us, we'd suggest checking out the clips ASAP.
Review: Having already offered up the first part of their 50th release trilogy, the Deep Dark & Dangerous crew slams down volume two. While its predecessor focused on undeniably deep cuts, this edition is all about aural darkness. Enigma Dubz gets things going in fine style via the slow-spaced out riddims, creepy sub-bass and clandestine electroic motifs of "Exosphere", before Pushloop reaches for oddball sci-fi vocal samples, punishing wobble-bass and maniacal laughter on "Age Of Fear". Truth weighs in with the bleeping, slow-stepping haziness and bowel-bothering bass of "Show Dem", while Khiva opts for a vibrating sub-bassline, metallic hits and tons of ricocheting effects on closing cut "Flight Club".
Review: Alleykat Man Dem Tha Official Ep is the first release on the Alleykat Man Dem imprint which features 4 wicked grime and dubstep cuts from the duo of Ganjaman and Pitchblakk.
Review: The Banshee EP was one of the last musical projects the pair of Glume and Phossa worked on together in Bristol before they left the city to live elsewhere. Lead single 'Banshee' has been played for years on the circuit and always got great reactions, so the pair sat down to write three more tunes to go with it for the sake of this EP. That was during lockdown so they haven't been road tested yet but rest assured when they are, the club will erupt. Each one hits deep, with trippy synth motifs from the Orient on 'Jitter', warrior energy on 'Vessel' and more broken beats on 'Sunken.'
Review: Bristol buds Glume & Phossa link up once again for another superb collab collection. This time on Encrypted, it's another trippy hat trick. "Bat Country" kicks off with a sense of cosmicity that gets deeper as the track begins to open up into an awesome sample you and your dad will recognise. Gradually upping the strange as the EP develops, "Yucatan" gets all Halloweeny with its arpeggio and strange warped keys while "Apogee" flips out in a ping-pong frenzy with layers of pipes and chimes which all double up in a really interesting and surprising way. Batty... In the best possible way.
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