Special Forces - The End / Babylon

Indeed, those old skool stabs are quite something. Plus the beats are superdense, and the ambient background FX adds to the sinister element of the track, to make it quite possibly one of my favourite slices of the ol' drum 'n' bass ever.

The main side sees Mr Parkes doing some recycling. By that I mean that he takes the vocals from "Can't Come Down" (off the Solaris album), and that mind blowing bass from the fires of Mount Doom... er, sorry, also from the Solaris album (albeit modified). The first few times you hear it, it completely overloads your synapses, but after those first few times, it is merely fantastic.

The second of two 12" signifying the return of Photek to drum and bass. In my opinion this is the probably the better of the two with Mr Parkes flexing a slightly darker sound. I'm loving the old skool stabs on Babylon.