Style: Leftfield House, Ambient Techno, Jazz, Jungle, Breakbeat, Breaks
Out: 9/4/2021
Quality: MP3 320 kbps
Label: Smalltown Supersound Norway
Cat# STS376D
«Соединяя в себе элементы фри-джаза, брейкбита, эйсид-хауса, даба, эмбиента и многого другого, второй полнометражный альбом токийского продюсера одновременно утешает и дестабилизирует».
Out: 9/4/2021
Quality: MP3 320 kbps
Label: Smalltown Supersound Norway
Cat# STS376D
«Соединяя в себе элементы фри-джаза, брейкбита, эйсид-хауса, даба, эмбиента и многого другого, второй полнометражный альбом токийского продюсера одновременно утешает и дестабилизирует».
Style: Drum and Bass, Jungle, Jump up
Out: 2/4/2021
Quality: MP3 320 kbps
Label: LionDub Street Series
Cat# LDSSVOL058
Review: Street Series EPs on Liondub are always big, but this one from Yatuza climbs to new heights as it reaches full album-length, with 15 full-length cuts for you to sink your teeth into. It kicks off with the stripped back urban sounds of 'Good Old Days', a tune that packs a hefty low frequency line with dancefloor atmosphere in its core. There are a number of features, and 'Bubbler' with Alex SLK is one of the best, a gargantuan head-nodder with a finger clicking snare and a wide, wobbling bassline. It's an album that will please anyone who knows anything about Liondub or Yatuza - fantastic work.
Out: 2/4/2021
Quality: MP3 320 kbps
Label: LionDub Street Series
Cat# LDSSVOL058
Review: Street Series EPs on Liondub are always big, but this one from Yatuza climbs to new heights as it reaches full album-length, with 15 full-length cuts for you to sink your teeth into. It kicks off with the stripped back urban sounds of 'Good Old Days', a tune that packs a hefty low frequency line with dancefloor atmosphere in its core. There are a number of features, and 'Bubbler' with Alex SLK is one of the best, a gargantuan head-nodder with a finger clicking snare and a wide, wobbling bassline. It's an album that will please anyone who knows anything about Liondub or Yatuza - fantastic work.
Style: BreakBeat, Uk Techno, Uk House, UK Hardcore
Out: 23/4/2021
Quality: MP3 320 kbps
Label: Yom Tum
Cat# YT002
Review: Under the Ejeca alias, Gerry McCartney has regularly delivered retro-futurist singles that draw inspiration from vintage UK house and techno. This album, his full-length debut, takes this approach even further, delivering a non-stop, sweat-soaked journey through brand new rave and UK hardcore-inspired productions recorded in Southend-on-Sea last December. There's much to enjoy throughout, from the almost overwhelmingly loved-up opener, 'Rainfall', and the skittish, US garage-influenced breakbeat hardcore haziness of 'Need You', to the piano-powered happy hardcore hedonism of 'My Love', mind-melting 'Variant' and rushing 'Tell Me'. Also superb is closing cut 'Sunrise', a fittingly titled conclusion tailor made for sound-tracking sun-up moments at remote mountain raves.
Out: 23/4/2021
Quality: MP3 320 kbps
Label: Yom Tum
Cat# YT002
Review: Under the Ejeca alias, Gerry McCartney has regularly delivered retro-futurist singles that draw inspiration from vintage UK house and techno. This album, his full-length debut, takes this approach even further, delivering a non-stop, sweat-soaked journey through brand new rave and UK hardcore-inspired productions recorded in Southend-on-Sea last December. There's much to enjoy throughout, from the almost overwhelmingly loved-up opener, 'Rainfall', and the skittish, US garage-influenced breakbeat hardcore haziness of 'Need You', to the piano-powered happy hardcore hedonism of 'My Love', mind-melting 'Variant' and rushing 'Tell Me'. Also superb is closing cut 'Sunrise', a fittingly titled conclusion tailor made for sound-tracking sun-up moments at remote mountain raves.
Style: Electronic, Dubstep, Deep Dubstep
Out: 10/09/2012 [7/04/2021]
Quality: MP3 320 kbps
Label: Brownswood UK
Cat# BWOOD090DD
Review: Mala's album project comes to light with a healthy amount of expectation. The DMZ / Deep Medi Musik main man has always carried a reverence amongst the dubstep scene for his unfussy approach, staying true to the sound he helped forge in the nascent days of the genre while avoiding over-exposure or buckling to hype and trend where so many of his peers succumbed to change. As such this project sees the man well outside of his comfort zone as he tackles a specific album project whilst sticking his head more clearly overground to work with Gilles Peterson on an adventure in Cuba working with local musicians. This is most definitely Mala's music, and the spiritual, tribal nature of his productions to date only gets enhanced by the influx of Cuban folk sounds. This is no simple case of ripping samples and dropping them for token effect though; the percussive patterns and licks of piano, guitar, horns and voice are completely interwoven into the South London pressure as if they were always meant to be. It's testament to the pure approach Mala takes in the studio that he manages to balance these unlikely bedfellows to such fluid effect. Undoubtedly there will be naysayers who will argue that in doing an album of this nature Mala is diluting his purist vision for dubstep, but in truth the approach and end results he has managed to conjure up bring a revitalising, fresh angle to the genre, which is what it needs in abundance. There's maybe a lack of the "shock of the new" factor as Cubano music is not exactly a stranger to UK dance music forms, and Mala isn't exactly switching his own stance too drastically, but ultimately that doesn't matter. The whole album is direct and immensely satisfying to listen to, capturing the alluring spirit of South American folk tradition and empowering it with the transcendental nature of dubstep in its finest form.
Out: 10/09/2012 [7/04/2021]
Quality: MP3 320 kbps
Label: Brownswood UK
Cat# BWOOD090DD
Review: Mala's album project comes to light with a healthy amount of expectation. The DMZ / Deep Medi Musik main man has always carried a reverence amongst the dubstep scene for his unfussy approach, staying true to the sound he helped forge in the nascent days of the genre while avoiding over-exposure or buckling to hype and trend where so many of his peers succumbed to change. As such this project sees the man well outside of his comfort zone as he tackles a specific album project whilst sticking his head more clearly overground to work with Gilles Peterson on an adventure in Cuba working with local musicians. This is most definitely Mala's music, and the spiritual, tribal nature of his productions to date only gets enhanced by the influx of Cuban folk sounds. This is no simple case of ripping samples and dropping them for token effect though; the percussive patterns and licks of piano, guitar, horns and voice are completely interwoven into the South London pressure as if they were always meant to be. It's testament to the pure approach Mala takes in the studio that he manages to balance these unlikely bedfellows to such fluid effect. Undoubtedly there will be naysayers who will argue that in doing an album of this nature Mala is diluting his purist vision for dubstep, but in truth the approach and end results he has managed to conjure up bring a revitalising, fresh angle to the genre, which is what it needs in abundance. There's maybe a lack of the "shock of the new" factor as Cubano music is not exactly a stranger to UK dance music forms, and Mala isn't exactly switching his own stance too drastically, but ultimately that doesn't matter. The whole album is direct and immensely satisfying to listen to, capturing the alluring spirit of South American folk tradition and empowering it with the transcendental nature of dubstep in its finest form.
Style: Break-Beat, Drum and Bass, Jungle, Electro, Techno House, Disco
Release: 19/03/2021
Quality: MP3 320 kbps | FLAC Lossless
Label: !K7 Records
Cat# K7394D
Paul Woolford’s Special Request takes the reins of DJ-Kicks’ latest for a cosmic soulboy trip harmonising myriad stripes of astral jazz, disco, deep house, electro and classic ‘90s jungle
Over the course of 25 tracks in 75 minutes, Woolford illustrates the influences and styles of his Special Request project at its most widescreen and emotive, encompassing the far out coordinates of Sun Ra, the classic AI of Speedy J, and the ravishing jungle of Steve Gurley’s Four Horsemen, alongside a ruck of secret names such as LS1 Housing Project and Intergalactic Quartet that a quid’s bet would stake to Woolford himself.
It’s as much a showcase for SR’s influences as Woolford’s DJ tekkers, coolly scaling from unquantised jazz to grid-twysting breakbeat hardcore with an immaculate, harmonious flow taking in his aforementioned turns as Intergalactic Quartet alongside deep-end digs by Morgan Geist and Virgo Four, thru to his sparkling house nuggets as LS1 Housing Project and compatibles from AceMo and µ-Ziq, to a killer run of new/old jungle spanning Sonar’s Ghost aka Domu’s aggy take on ‘Drowning in Her’, a lush Tim reaper remix of SR’s ‘Pull Up’, and a scalp-tingling beatless collaboration with prodigal loiner 96 Back, named ’Petrichor.’
Release: 19/03/2021
Quality: MP3 320 kbps | FLAC Lossless
Label: !K7 Records
Cat# K7394D
Paul Woolford’s Special Request takes the reins of DJ-Kicks’ latest for a cosmic soulboy trip harmonising myriad stripes of astral jazz, disco, deep house, electro and classic ‘90s jungle
Over the course of 25 tracks in 75 minutes, Woolford illustrates the influences and styles of his Special Request project at its most widescreen and emotive, encompassing the far out coordinates of Sun Ra, the classic AI of Speedy J, and the ravishing jungle of Steve Gurley’s Four Horsemen, alongside a ruck of secret names such as LS1 Housing Project and Intergalactic Quartet that a quid’s bet would stake to Woolford himself.
It’s as much a showcase for SR’s influences as Woolford’s DJ tekkers, coolly scaling from unquantised jazz to grid-twysting breakbeat hardcore with an immaculate, harmonious flow taking in his aforementioned turns as Intergalactic Quartet alongside deep-end digs by Morgan Geist and Virgo Four, thru to his sparkling house nuggets as LS1 Housing Project and compatibles from AceMo and µ-Ziq, to a killer run of new/old jungle spanning Sonar’s Ghost aka Domu’s aggy take on ‘Drowning in Her’, a lush Tim reaper remix of SR’s ‘Pull Up’, and a scalp-tingling beatless collaboration with prodigal loiner 96 Back, named ’Petrichor.’