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Buyer Rating: 90.9% positive (11 ratings)

Antennae - Water - 28-Jun-08 04:29 AM
Antennae is all about the beats. The instrumentals are sublime; true future looking hip hop without any cliche loops in sight. Destroy this is a slightly gritty track but with an awesome dipping and straining hook to mellow out the harsher high snares. For me its the Light to Light (instrumental) that really is the peach, its a soaring work of rising and crashing spacey synths that will still get your head nodding in a b-boy fashion. Its so fresh, yet its so hip hop, its sort of draws a line between Prefuse 73 and good ol fashioned normal hip hop but has retains so much soul. It sounds as organic as a good cup of cha, I would talk about the words but I haven't really listened to them. So on the strength of the instrumentals alone, top choice. You can mix it with hip hop, you can mix it with chill out, it's unique sounding yet wholly traditional.

Sabres Of Paradise, The - Haunted Dancehall - 06-May-08 08:08 AM
A review on the CD version of this album doesn't seem to be very positive so I thought I'd give the other side of the fence so to speak.

An eccentric oddball of warpy alien wallpaper chimes, this is one of my favourite albums of all time. Very few dance albums have really fully cut the mustard in terms of having enough decent material and a proper structure too the tracks, this is one. The textured cover showing a red razor blade shows it all, these are clinical beats backed up by some of the most inventive use of synthesisers I have ever heard. The feel here is classic Weatherall; however the almost band like quality does shine through from all four members.

To be fair though this is an abstract album, the obviously dubbed up undertones mean that the tracks go on for quite a long time with only subtle alterations (not for everyones' short attention spans!). Some tracks don't even really go anywhere but just act as a build up to the preceeding track, drawing you in to a world of glitchy beats and then declining a resolution only to hit you with a further prolonged build up on the next track. In my world though this adds to the atmosphere as you're drawn down a dark street with only a the sound of a distant scraping noise to reel you in until out of the next alley you see a multicolour rainbow of sound realisms (my personal interpretation of the brilliant 8minutes + soundscaping of the Ballad Of Nicky McGuire).

In my opinion this stays so true to dub, it offers the listener sometimes the most basic of sounds. Allowing the listener to draw imaginary connections and in essence 'read between the lines' of the beats. When the beats give way to a fully blown melody, as in dub, the melody is bought to the front and allowed full control of the track.

The classic Wilmot has one of the best rewinds in the history of music (as well as a huge low slung blissed up and spliffed up bassline), Tow Truck has a dark menace that hints at the big-beat future of the mid-90s and Haunted Dancehall is probably the darkest tune to ever make it on to an Ibiza Chill Out CD and a stunning closer to the album.

An album of a million and one possibilites; where the space between the music is often more important than the music itself.

DJ Deeon - Let Me Bang - 01-May-08 08:44 AM
One ghetto-tech track that really pumps the jam. Let me Bang is a databass classic, the first track does what it says and bangs about well, deep bass rumbling and those off time little phasing noises that sound so good when the mid range is stripped bare.

Ride this MF and Shake What Ya Mamma Gave Ya (shake that s##t to the right, shake that s##t to the left!) complement the sounds and this is overall a very coherent ghetto tech release. I played this EP back to back with a DJ Funk one for about 30minutes and I dont think anyone really cared. The tracks are just fresh funky, and yes Bangin.

If you like this stuff, get this it is a party gem and a peach to mix.

Nmonic - Voice Mail EP - 08-Apr-08 07:08 AM
Stunning rendition of dystopian future, a truly great work of art about the consequences of the man and machine reality we are all facing.

The tracks flow like a novel, its not rap its hip hop, and the world will never stop.

A remedy to the world of processsion but true to the dawn; the Bodyclock track holds the LP together with a stunning and shimmering Jehst lyric - that fully complements the darker Nmonic style. The balance like Libra of night and day is evident. The samples are well timed and well used, utilising authoratative voices, liquid Evil Ed beats that flow like water and a heavyweight press.

A true hiddden gem, Leeds massive.