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Various - The Prologue - 31-Jul-08 09:15 AM
Spor's label debut is this huge Prologue, packed with four fat tracks and heavy breaked stuff.
The boss of Lifted music start this ep with a "Knock you down", typical techy track with loud bass-line and clear snares. The alarm sample is really good and the drop is a jumped moment like no other.
Next comes the most known duo into hard drum'n'bass scene : Evol intent for an usual hip-hop inspired track followed by destructured beats and a grimmy bass. Works very well !
The second plate is, i think, the better one.
You start it with a breaked drum track that became an anthem over here in France, in only two weeks ! "Screw up" is an intelligent combination of hip-hop samples, breaked heavy beats and simple but sticky bass-line. It works everytime on the floor, actually i saw many people singing the hip-hop samples while dancing, told you that it's an anthem !
Then and for finish you have two guys that we didn't seen for a while : Unknown error (last popular release was the "Heaven & hell ep" @ Moving shadow, 2006), who signs here one of their best track. "Sucker punch" is a dynamic techy track with rolling bass and a well mastered beat. I particulary love the drop with his fade out/fade in, really a great musical moment !

This ep is a wonderful proof that Spor isn't joking and wants to play and produce heavy stuffs for wicked people. The only comment that i could make about this politic is : great ! Keep it going like that !

Break - Submerged / Today's Special - 27-Jul-08 08:31 AM
Another great release from the prolific mind of Break.
Submerged is fat, heavy, and the grimmy bass-line is so deep but in the same time so powerfull that it makes everyone moves. Works everytime, and it's well mixed by Teebee with the "Natural selection" from Zero tolerance on the Subliminal vol1 mix cd.
Today's special is a breaked stuff but keeps the heavy bass construction of the a-side, a little bit more jumping. The beats construction of this track is just amazing, i really love the way that drum sequences grow up and gets modify on all the track.

Get it, at least listen to it, one of the best pieces of Subtitles catalogue !

Noisia / Teebee / Noisia/Mayhem* / Verse - Lost Cause / Choke - 18-Jul-08 09:49 PM
For their second press, the three dubplates killers known as Noisia invite Subtitles' boss : Teebee.
But far from what we could expect (the older productions of this duo on Subtitles is neuro funk or really space drum'n'bass style, suchlike Moon palace), Lost cause is one big, hudge and heavy track. It will certainly push over the dancefloor.
The dark sub basse of this track, combinated with clear breaked drums (this is Teebee's touch) give you a difficult but sticking movement.
Anyway the bass is good enought for making you move.
When you flip it, Verse come to tell you how this new style will make you Choke, and indeed it works well ! Mayhem always make great duos with Noisia (who's the renegade ?), this track will not change the general idea. The bass line is really good, speed enought to make you move but sub enought to make you feel. A great track.

Hollandia rules !

Break - Cold Sweat / The Vacuum - 15-Jun-08 09:58 AM
Such a shame that no one write a review on this 12" !

Critical had released here two of the more spicy tracks from Break. The style of the upcoming dj, producer and remixer of the past five years is writen on this release, from the dreaming spheres to simple basse line but efficient and sticky !
Cold sweat is working really good on any type of drum'n'bass session. You can play it with neuro funk, ragga jungle, dancefloor style or even in introduction of an hard jungle session. It give to all the dancers the steps and the body movement of drum'n'bass, even for the novice ones. And when the bass line stike, all the crowd is jumping over. Works every time !
The vacuum is more a spacy track from Break's late nights, but the work on the keys and the shapes are amazing, and the deep basse line get merged with the rest of the track in a way that you'll not hear it, but dance on it.

Just put an hear on this, you won't regret it !

Various - Collision EP - 15-Jun-08 09:46 AM
One of the best releases of the last year.

The four sides can be played in the same movement. Just try this way : B, C, A, D.
Once again Noisia give the proof that Netherlands is in the place of future d'n'b, and for a long time. The idea of making tracks with their friends and put them on a single ep give the result of a big Collision.
BSE & Noisia's track, Infusion, is one of the most efficient dreamy drum'n'bass track of our times. The three key melody is doing really good with this rolling bass and the variations on the beat's echo is just great.
The two tracks from classicals collobarotions of Phace & Noisia are ones of the most efficient and popular songs over here. Cannonball, with constantly changing beat and samples voices (from Rollerball ?) is big and heavy, Levitation got one of the greatest bass line of the last year.
The track with The upbeats is more an usual neuro stuff, but it works good too !

You need to listen to this if you like the new way of making dark drum'n'bass from Netherland producers, is really a big piece of this new musical puzzle. Don't miss it !

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