Style Drum and Bass, Deep DNB
Released 20/09/2019
Format MP3/320kbps
Label Dispatch
Cat DISLTD072
Canadian NC-17 joins American Dave Owen for this 4 track EP from North America. The rugged, stepping title track 'Pistol Whip' sets the tone for the EP, menacing and full of energy. 'Picture Me Rolling' is built around vocal cuts and rolling bongos. Collaborative atmospheric track 'Suspira' with Creatures, provides a thoughtful break before 'Cemetery Man' returns with the kind of rolling bass line that makes light work of any dance floor.
Style Drum and Bass, Jump Up
Released 20/09/2019
Format MP3/320kbps
Label Grid UK
Cat GRIDUK093
Grid Recordings have been on an absolute tear the past year or so, with everything that comes through their doors sounding slick and firmly on the pulse of D&B in 2019. This time around it's a compilation featuring some of their most reliable producers, who, characteristically, have come through in a big way. Jayline & Macpherson's 'Look & Listen' is a spacious, atmospheric creeper than packs a serious punch, one that emerges through a soundscape of celestial tones. Nick The Lot definitely has one of the standout tunes with 'This Planet', keeping up the space theme and also keeping up the trend of twisting, expansive basslines that ripple with energy - proper roller this. KY's 'Dreams' is in the same vein and even more futuristic and techy, which shows that Grid can do things in all styles. Head Nodders indeed.
Style Drum and Bass
Released 20/09/2019
Format MP3/320kbps
Label Serial Killaz
Cat KILLAZ055DIG
Some combos just work: bread and butter, salt and pepper, rice and peas, T>I and Saxxon. Top Norwich lads, top roller merchants and perfect gully bedfellows as they unleash the first of a whole barrage of collabo bombs. Four cuts, four reasons to slap an elderly hairy-faced family member, highlights include the unruly swagger and lead-like drums of "11.55", the paranoid string whirlwind of "Sundown" and the pure nastiness of "Tracker". Sun ain't gonna set on these for a long time boi.
Style Drum and Bass, Jump Up
Released 20/09/2019
Format MP3/320kbps
Label Low Down Deep
Cat LDDR123
Upgrade is without a doubt one of the most talented producers to have emerged out of the jump-up space in the past several years. His sound is rough and tumble but still dark and techy, he draws upon multiple influences and, as such, has a cross-subgenre appeal. This single on Low Down Deep expresses this fact perfectly. "Trigga Finga' has the snarling stabs of jump up with the blackish fa?ade of something darker, it's still rooted in urbanity thanks to Trigga, but also packs a futuristic punch. 'The Saucer' is typically choppish, pointed synths abound and each hit and knock feel purposely placed. Top single.
