Digging Deep: ENA

Lurking in the far-flung Oriental corner of the Minimal-170 genre is Tokyo based producer, ENA.  Producing under several different monikers, including Yu Aseda and other apparently more ‘secret’ aliases, ENA’s releases have been sporadic since 2008 and have often gone … Read More

Five Steps: A/T/O/S [DEEP MEDi]

March saw the debut release from A/T/O/S on DEEP MEDi: a collaborative LP from producer Truenoys and songstress Amos that eschews the inherent need for bass-weight in favour of a more musical approach to your standard Dubstep template. A Taste Of … Read More

Win: 2x tickets to Random Magic w/ Cajmere vs Green Velvet

Competition time! Random Magic‘s May Bank Holiday Special is looming on the horizon and the lineup is looking just as tantalising as their last event back in October. That was a wholeheartedly rambuntious affair that featured Omar S, Futureboogie and … Read More

Review: Tobias – A Series of Shocks

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Tobias Freund is not your average MacBook producer. Whilst many, over the past decade, have been reliant on software and patches, Freund’s background within musical engineering and mastering leave you with a man and his machines, plugging and unplugging sonic … Read More

Five Essentials: Liston

This week saw the release of Leeds-based producer Liston‘s Skyscrapers EP on Melodica Recordings – a four-track piece that stays true to the label’s namesake as it explores a vast array of different styles and musical tones, its themes all … Read More

Watch: Itoa – Peng

Here’s something to spark up this dreary Wednesday.

With support from the likes of Om Unit and Toddla T, Itoa‘s ‘Peng’ floats effortlessly in the no-man’s land between cheeky swagger and skeletal bass-weight, a scattergun arrangement that’s both an homage … Read More

Five Essentials: Deft

Straddling the divide between the Civil Music, Planet Mu etc-inspired dystopian half-tempo and the scene’s recent reinvention of Chicago footwork sits Deft‘s colourful oeuvre of work in 2014; a versatile and above-all supremely fine-tuned catalogue, from Voight Kampff‘s multi-genre abstraction … Read More

Five Steps: Seba

An artist who needs no introduction – we’ll give it a good crack anyway – and possibly Sweden’s finest export since Henrik Larsson is the one and only Seba. Pivotal at the height of GLR-era Jungle and a mainstay throughout its … Read More

Review: Sam KDC – Survive/Exist / Erogenous

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Emotion is not something typically associated with Drum & Bass but neither is Samuel Wood, aka Sam KDC for the uninitiated, your typical producer. Music is written from the soul, deep within the heart to create a truly unique listening … Read More

Spotlight: LinG

The start of the month saw newcomer LinG drop a single that sat a step above what you would usually come to expect from a debut release. Released on UK-based collective Get Some, Anthracite’s is an aggressive sound that draws … Read More