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Sinjin (Barcelona via Montreal) had spent a great deal of his time and energy throwing some of Montreal’s best parties, bringing big names like Brenmar, Canblaster, Jacques Greene to a small bar in the city, with either very little or no cover charge at all! This was made possible in cooperation with friends and collaborators Azamat B (ITFW) and Markus Garcia (LOL Boys).

The Lights EP impresses with opening tune “Shadows”, acting as a wonderful welcome for a new hero. There are sounds of crowds chanting and clapping alongside royal trumpets, drum rolls, and a beautiful harp before everything slowly evolves into beat-filled champion-themed brawl music.

Literally treated like a mini-album, this release is complete with intros, interludes and outros while holding a unified tone (in a consistent, yet, far from monotonous way). Expect to hear heavy bass and splattered hip-hop/R&B beats over triumphant horns and shimmering synth samples that sound like they once belonged to a magical casino on top of a brilliant snowy mountain. The perfect example of this genius is found on Crystal Dust, a song so good it could probably make Hud Mo jealous.

Out December 5th on the ever-rising label Pelican Fly, The Lights will do much more than simply carry Sinjin through to the next level of recognition, you can expect it to boost him to underground stardom! In fact, “Like That” (a three minute dance floor murderer) has already been getting huge support and was massively thrown down in Mele’s set at Boiler Room. This track is so powerful in such a small window of time, it’s just begging for a back spin!

01. Nicolas Jaar - WOUH

02. Faib - Out of Space

03. Dark Tantrums - Unborn

04. Las - Memories

05. Benton - Sleepless

06. Compa - Dreams

07. Komonazmuk - Underground

08. Dark Sky - Totum

09. Adam F - Aromatherapy

10. Bachelors of Science - Strings Track [Apex Remix]

11. Commix - Untitled (Sep 06)

12. Danny Bird - Amen Alley

13. Foreign Beggars - What’s Good feat. Lazer Sword

An essential new Tectonic drops here, the fourth in their ten inch plate series, and with barely weeks until their crucial Tectonic plates 2cd lands, pressures are mounting. Hijak shows that the label’s roots are like family, for Hijak is in fact none other than Skream’s elder brother of Inta Natty fame - an original junglist crew which also featured Bailey and Grooverider! Mister Fleming is evidently comfy with the break, lovely round drums spooked by the necessarily nightmareish strings, with awesome bass dragged through the dirt. Huge tune. Flip for Armour, an adoptive guise for Roly from Vex’d showing if it were possible, that bristolians are becoming even darker in their predilections. Increasingly drawn to the chaotic drone spaces and dark corners, “iron man” hoves into view gradually, like the enormous ocean liner siren which will initially shred your head in a dance situation.

A dark rolling monster, spaced out and sparse with a chest rattling sub and minimal percussion. Benton’s signature industrial basses sear through the darkness giving you more cutting edge half step, a sound originally coined by Youngsta in 2004. This has been battered exclusively by Youngsta, N-Type, Distance.

The Far East assassin drops his most substantial work yet for Deep Medi. The lead cut features legendary JA vocalist Max Romeo on one of Goth Trad’s sweeter riddims, but there’s still enough menace and bass weight to hold it down in any of the bigger dances. The rest is back to meaner business, from the hard rolling Techno vibes of ‘Sublimation’ to the fluctuating double time flex of ‘Falling Leaf’ and the Coki-style, wile-out rave pressure of ‘Itinerant Priest’.

Dbridge’s first full solo 12” of 2011 is a suitably special effort for Skream’s Disfigured Dubz label. These aren’t necessarily dancefloor tracks - that’s not to say they couldn’t be skilfully used in the right moment - but they are exquisite bits of modern UK Bass music. A-side is ‘City Of Lost Souls’, a melancholy minimal stepper’s rhythm suffused with gliding pads and a heart-breaking central motif lifted from a pivotal scene in Dbridge’s ongoing internal sci-fi odyssey. Flipside is ‘Discord’, a knowing melodic nod to Ae’s majestic ‘Dropp’ augmented by flickering, pointillist D&B patterns. Really lovely.

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Label: Dubstar Souljah Catalog#: DS001 Format: Vinyl, 12”
Country: UK Released: Jul 2009  Genre: Electronic Style: Dubstep