May 2011
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La Fine Equipe – La Boulangerie →
From French Beatmakers La Fine Equipe (Blanka, Oogo, Mr.Gib, Mattic and Chomsky) comes the album La Boulangerie, masters of the sampler one and all. Here they showcase their skills with the MPC over 37 tracks, whose titles seem to come from staring longingly at the scrumptious delights in the pâtisserie window. They cut up soul, funk, reggae, dioulouge, swing, dub, hip hop, arabic music,...
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Kromestar - Colourful Vibrations (DEEPDCD001)... →
Kromestar clears his cache of recent productions with ‘Colourful Vibrations’. The title neatly summises the synaesthetic quality of Kromestar’s notoriously bass weighed sound, and covers the spectrum of his Dubstep niche from the R&B-splashed ‘Family Apart’, to cyber-spacious digi-dub on ‘Disagree’, to midnight-romantic chords and velvet subs for...
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Jakwob - Right Beside You EP →
Hailing from the Midlands, UK, Jakwob is currently working on his debut album, and is very much in-demand as the producer of the moment. He’s redefining the experimental, dubstep, and electronic scenes, taking strands of each style and twisting them into a new sound that is very much his own.
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Desto - Glass Clouds / Stay Strong →
Desto has been fairly quiet since his Oneman-lauded ‘Disappearing Reappearing Ink’ side on Ramp Recordings. He returns to the label with ‘Glass Clouds’, another icily melodic but Subbass-warmed and slinky skanker. ‘Stay Strong’ is yet more minimal, but doffing a cap to Burial and Zomby with zig-zaging synthlines and acres of precipitous space. Fellow Finn,...
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Blue Motion & Grimm feat. Remo - Walking Away
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Alfie - So Good
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Desto - Stay Strong [Late Remix]
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Brookes Brothers feat. Robert Owens - Beautiful (Full Version)
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Fred V - Catch You
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Darq E Freaker - Cherryade
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L.V. & Joshua Idehen - Northern Line
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L.V. & Joshua Idehen / Routes / LDN022 →
For their debut album Routes, evasive London trio LV have again teamed up with vocalist Joshua Idehen for a follow-up to last year’s collaborative 38 EP. The results are nothing short of excellent.