New releases last eight weeks: Hardstyle

Review: First released as a six-track, digital-only EP in the summer of 2023, Jay Glass Dubs' DJ Humble makes its bow on CD in freshly expanded form. The release was considered quite unusual on its initial release, moving away from the fractured electronica and opaque experimental dub recordings of his earlier years towards a more intense and energetic sound inspired by the formative years of breakbeat hardcore and jungle. Of course, the sometime Berceuse Heroique artist's experimental instincts still hold sway, leading to such dystopian - but admittedly thrilling moments as 'Seconds Away', where hectic beats are smothered in layers of melodic electronics and weird noises, the fiendishly avant-garde d&b insanity of 'Packing Someone Else's Fire', and the hallucinatory jungle-IDM fusion of 'Wing It'.