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Review: Bristol's Tectonic honcho Pinch is celebrating 20 years of the dubstep and bass music recordings outfit with a fresh 24-track compilation, which of course has been further split into four EPs and counting to optimise bassweight and tonearm response. Pinch is reminiscent and proud: "It feels like Tectonic has been a part of so many communities. There's something instinctive that binds all the releases - something that goes beyond words." This fourth comp-selects highlights the work of midcomers in the scene, such as Kahn, Neek, Gemmy and Neffa-T, predominantly courting the 140s but indulging some experiments, with 'Motion Light' creaking through strange midnight bazaar SFX, and 'This Is This Isn't' going buckwild on hard-clip kicks and rib-tickling rims.