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	This week's drum & bass selections Friday 20 April 2018

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Juno

Truth In The Skies/Akira
Viper Recordings

Following a cameo on last year's Summer Slammers album, Spanish bass-flinger Juno returns to Viper for his first full single release on the label. Neither track takes any prisoners; "Truth In The Skies" smashes with a savage dancefloor twang and a rasping bassline that so wet and slimy you're already considering a shower just reading this description. "Akira" hits hard, too. Big sweeping Dimension-style bass swings and pummelling drums, this has 'floor flattener' stamped all over it.

Furney

Intruders EXCLUSIVE
Soul Deep Exclusives

Furney's not fluffing around here gang. Prolific since he emerged in the late 2000s, things seem to have ramped up to new speeds with his output this year. And all of it is absolute gold. Just take "Intruders"; a classic jungle track with some pretty rasping stabs, it suddenly turns into a soul hurricane midway with playful subversion. "1990" takes us back in time with a superbly crafted sample that only truly unfolds on the majestic breakdown, "Letramento Skies" is all about the happy slappy double bass twangs and dope spoken word sample while "Out Of Luck" closes on a bare disco tip. Feeling lucky?

Dutta & Hizzleguy

Stardawgs
Multi Function

Dutta & Hizzleguy... Now that's combo you could crush concrete with. Two of the most exciting names at the forefront of new jump-up, both famed for their chiselled laser tones and uncompromised energy, "Stardawgs" represents both men's skills and energy in one lavish, aggy banger. Rattled with its swinging triplet, charmed with its soft synth riff and blasted inside out with the high end harmonic bassline, it's an instant sing-along with added grotty grit. You gonna bark all day little dawgy?

Drumsound & Bassline Smith

Kilimanjaro EP
Technique Recordings

Oof! Just when you thought their album Wardance slapped us back to the golden age hard enough, along comes this disgusting five four track trench stomper. "Jungle All The Way" lives up to its name with sweeping, sneering electrified bass licks, "Killimanjaro" is a titanic stampede with fat percussion tones and reams of pranged out hoover stabs, "Lose My Head" joins the team at Benny L's foghorn factory and heads up the armageddon division while "Dubplate" wraps up affairs with a love letter to the foundations, all tingly Headz-style synths and a drop that's so sick you'll need a repeat prescription. Stinking.

Surreal feat Jaybee

Signal EP
Celsius Recordings UK

Celsius mainstay Surreal dials in US scientist Jaybee for three pristine rollers. "Signal" shows us a signal with divine rattling breaks, a groaning bass and some ace late-entering jazzy keys. "Blow" takes us deeper into the storm with an introspective sidewinder; sashayed with an air of early Lenzman, there's an immense soul coded deep into the feels right here. "Minimal" closes the show on a high with Detroitian synth tones and a classic sense of foundation insistency. Three swings, three hits; this one strikes in all directions.

Calibre

Falls To You
Signature

Dominic Martin returns with an EP that's deep even by his standards. Stirring corners of your soul you didn't even know existed, "Falls To You" is a heart-breaking piece of work that trembles under his lonely vocals and delicate layers of instrumentation. "Crawler" lures back into the dance with a mystical cascades and far-away beats while "The Spirit" breezes and rattles with a dubby, slo-mo 140 style. A one of a kind EP from a one of a kind artist; sublime.

Traumatize

Still Here EXCLUSIVE
Bulletproof

No drama, here's Trauma... And he's here to make you question every fibre of your existence. "Selfish" sets the scene with its all-out sandpaper riff and sudden swoop into ravey bliss on the breakdown. "Lies" takes a more leftfield route with a Serum-style slimy Q&A while "Code Red 2017" dusts off the chainsaw and cuts us all down a peg or three. Finally we hit "Artificial". The stankiest stinkier of the set; one buzz on those alien bass textures and you'll be speaking in tongues.

Evil Intention

Modern Science EXCLUSIVE
Audio Overload

There ain't no stopping Brummy badmen Evil Intentions this year. Barely a quarter into 2018 and they're already on their third Audio Overload EP. This is one of their heaviest to date with four absolute scorchers so hot your hair is singeing as you read these words. "Modern Science" is the brute-force masterblaster of the set, "Remember" is all about the laser bass swathes while "Bad Boy" pays homage to Belgium with its belligerent bouncy insistency. Also included is a turbo-charged VIP of their pitched-up vocal bone-shaker "First Time". Evil intentions, generous actions... We're getting mixed messages right now, and we don't want them to stop.

Run Tingz Cru

Pond Life Part 1: Welcome To Bristol (Explicit) EXCLUSIVE
Run Tingz Recordings

Run Tingz Cru invite us deep into their stomping ground with this walloping five track west country jungle odyssey. "Welcome To Bristol" gives us a hearty handshake by way of some very clever reference points and razor sharp breaks. Elsewhere we're skanked to high heavens with "Spit Fire", we get slapped by the ghost of Clipz on "Women Dem" while "Legalize" is all about the heady rave stabs and stick gunfingers. "Fully Loaded" provides the final fire of the EP with a nagging vocal, haunted elements and drums that punch from here to no man's land. Bring on the second part!

Tomoyoshi

Get Funky/Mad Jazz EXCLUSIVE
Original Key

No questions asked: when Tomoyoshi tells you to get funky, you flipping do it... Especially when he's delivering obscenely good floor fire like this. So simple, stripped back but loaded and coded with wry groovemanship, "Get Funky" is all about the classic wet fart bass and fluttering, wobbled subs. "Mad Jazz" continues the funk with a classic Bristol-style brock-out. Tunnelling, tubular subs and a slight whiff of Clipz-style relentlessness, this is Tomoyoshi at his heaviest and hairiest... And we love it. Don't mess around with this one.

Two Mind & Method

Broken Minds EXCLUSIVE
Big Freaks Audio

Their minds might be broken but their spirit or their technical abilities most certainly aren't... Russian duo Two Minds split an EP with Method for a firing five-piece banger salute. We kick off with a VIP of "Won't Stop Killing", a track that opened the year for them with menace. Elsewhere we have the Benny L-esque groans on "What The Hell" and the laser-blazing murderation session with Method that is "Broken Minds". Elsewhere Method closes the shop with two utterly savage steppers: "The Lost Mine" is a guttural, grizzly lash-out while "The Hill Rats" is all about the sandpaper funk, brain-melting textures on the fills and beautifully strange halftime twists. If it ain't broke...

Trex

Tabasco EXCLUSIVE
Trust Audio

Consistently adding spice to our sets since he emerged on Ingredients in 2011, Trex comes correct with the fittingly-titled "Tabasco". A waspy, buzzy bass-tickled jam with rugged drums and a 3am Randall vibe stamped all over it, it sets the scene for two more exceptional floor remedies... The spine-melting synths, trippy textures and burped-out bass of "Gonna Get Up" and the slightly more understated growls and crystalline drums of "Murphy's Law". Trust in Trex. Trust in Trust.

Phantom Planet EXCLUSIVE
Triplicate Audio

Last spotted on their "Triplicate Audio Remixes" collection late last year, 4D returns to the UK label with two stinking workouts. "Phantom Planet" opens with a deep space intro that wouldn't have gone amiss in the 1998 before dropping into a savage Blocks & Escher style drum mosaic. "Please" licks with a little jumpy mischief. Bumping and thumping with a groaning-but-infectious bass riff, chaos isn't so much as promised but a guaranteed dead cert.

Dreamworkers

It's Over (Deluxe Version) EXCLUSIVE
DNBB Digital

Once a duo now a lone trader, Prague's Dreamworkers (AKA Zeal) continues to deliver crisp soulful workouts, this time on DNBB with the deluxe version of last year's "It's Over" release. Highlights include the emotional strings and evocative vocal cries of "So Close", the burning soul vocal on "Sometimes I Feel", the delicate instrumentation and poignancy of "Cave" and the heavier, percussion-laced growler "Under". Pay attention.

David Louis

Crystallized EP EXCLUSIVE
Mettasonic

Direct from Toronto via Shenzhen, David Louis follows up his serious sermons on the likes of Repertoire and Deviant Audio with this crucial four-piece for Chinese label Mettasonic. We end with the emotionally-charged "Father". "Crystallized" is the consummate opener with its big jazzy sax blasts and insane break edits, "Springs" takes place in a sci-fi footwork battle royale while "Fluid" is pneumatic minimal stepper that wouldn't go amiss in a Loxy set. Finally, breezing with a wry air of Headz legacy in the synths and chords, we have "Father", the perfect way to bid us adieu... For now.

Reso

Avenoir/Chibaku Tensei
RX0

Currently in a state of creative flux, ducking and diving between the realms of halftime and heavy D&B hurtage, 170 workouts and 140 monsters, Reso is back in the hot seat after several years focussing on scoring for games. This second instalment of his RX0 series is a great example of him in all-out balls-out mode: "Avenoir" is a bone rattling drumfunk beast, "Chibaku Test" is a white knuckle grizzle fest charged by pure break grit while "Aural Animation" slinks, slides and bends minds with its sleazy funk and wavy synths. Essential for all: No one does D&B like Reso.

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Majistrate & Voltage / Heist / Ego Trippin / DJ Sly

V.I.P EP (VIP)

Low Down Deep Recordings

Solix

Obliteration EP

Digital Terror

Various

Liquid Drum & Bass Essentials Vol 07

LW Recordings

Flatline

Dredd

Young Guns Recordings

Black Sun Empire

The Wrong Room (Deluxe Edition)

Blackout Music

Teddy Killerz

Hellblade EP

Eatbrain

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Unglued

Chicken In A Spacesuit

Signal

Veak

Kontrast

Syndax

Dub Damage Recordings UK

Aliman

Rock / Face

Dubstomp 2 Bass

Featured label: Young Guns Recordings	View all

Basstripper

Full Throttle
Young Guns Recordings

Bare Belgian business: Basstripper makes his debut on Young Guns with four poisonous pieces of work. "Flootdite Of Filth" is all about the addictive Q&A riff magic and dreamy breakdown, "Dominate" focuses on the raw hair-raising vibes with true sandpaper funk craft while "Sine Pugna" flips up a soulful vocal into a Twisted Individual level shock-out. Deeper again we get into top gear with the singular sound rough-houser "Full Throttle" while "Vulgar Way" finishes with some seriously twisted and animated high-end weirdness. Buckle up badboys!

DJ Grimeminister

Changes
Young Guns Recordings

Move over Theresa May, the real leader is back in the powerseat and already the world terror level has reduced and the economy has stabilised. How couldn't it when you've got riffs as cheeky as the rush-wrapped "Atari" or basses as a zippy and wasp-like as the one on "Changes". Elsewhere "Glitch String" will have you cabinet-reshuffling all the way to the bedroom with its squidged-out bass warps and "Pimp Talk" will have you hurling your shoes and shouting 'ho!' before you can say hard Brexit.

Tesen

Sleep Paralysis
Young Guns Recordings

Rising UK producer Tesen gets busy with his biggest EP to date on the future-focused Young Guns Recordings. Seven originals deep; there's a lot to take in as the Bristol DJ showcases his broadest palette; the Macky Gee-style riff addictiveness on "Focus", the trippy off-beat funk and twisted designs on "Groupies", the insane range of bass textures on "Screw Loose", the haunting harmonics of "Sleep Paralysis", the Bristolian Q&A cheekiness on "Get Outta My Face", the gutter chomping highs and lows of "Attention" and the synth-rippling feels on "Glaciate"... Each tune aimed directly at the dance, the Tesen takeover starts here.

Mega

Mind Control
Young Guns Recordings

Watch out! You're gonna get hit. From the drop this 'Mind Control' is on a rampage and is locked, loaded and ready to shoot you down with an onslaught of laser gunshot! 'Never Over' is very typical floor filling jump up, it is a slower stepper with a squelching bass, scraping pneumatic drills and a tough in check film sample. 'Mumbo Jumbo' and 'Famous Killer' follow a similar format of filthy basslines and a whole heap of lasers, get ready for some screw faces on the floor.

Ikon

Ikon:ik (Part 2)
Young Guns Recordings

Sun's out, lenger's out - Young Guns slap down the second part of the "Ikon:Ik" series a tribute release for the late greaat Joe Ikon and it's every bit as ruthless, uncompromised and all-encompassing as the launch release two weeks ago. Ranging from the clipped and sinewy laser bass riff stabs of "Listen" to the more subverted biggie-bass grumblings of "Wake Up Fucked Up" by way of the sprightly skank and toxic slurry bass of "Twist", it's another scorching Ikon beacon for all drum & bass radars.

Monotype

Queen Of Blood
Young Guns Recordings

All hail our new leader! Monotype's "Queen Of Blood" is here, and she's ruling with an iron fist! Make that six iron fists... "What Is Going On" is a screeched out danger-stepper, "Queen Of Blood" slaps with a trippy woodblock rhythm and a densely packed bassline of multi-layers while "No Double Checkin" and "Mutated Beast" are much muddier, grumbling jams for those all-essential heads-down sessions. We close on two monstrous collabs: "Step Back" (with Lupo) is a hurricane of warped textures that really comes into its own on the second drop while "Science" (with Mamoet) brings us to a techy climax with raw alien soul. God save our (blood) queen!

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		Heist / Pacso Re-fixes 2 Low Down Deep Recordings

		Signal Doom Desire EP Shogun Audio

		Various The Sound Of Drum & Bass 2018 (Viper Presents) Viper Recordings

		Warhead Bludclart Dubplate EP Sub-liminal Recordings

		RMS & Dublic Deadman Walking Deep In The Jungle

		Lynch Mob Between The Lines Dub Voltage

		Conrad Subs Note To Self Soul Deep Digital

		Jayline I Wonder Audioporn

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Hex

April 2018 Chart

HLZ

Vectors Dispatch Recordings

Philth & Wreckless

Unstable Peer Pressure Recordings

Invadhertz

Battle Lines (feat MC Gusto) Addictive Behaviour

Ice Cubes Delta9 Recordings

Whiney

Set List Medschool

DJ Hybrid

April 2018 Top 10 Chart

Logistics

Chant Hospital

Replicant

Ruff & Tuff (Veak remix) Audio Addict

Danny Byrd feat MC GQ

Salute Hospital

Veak

Tune Deh Bad Deep In The Jungle

L-Side/Inja

Night Prowler V Recordings

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5Pin Media

Crucial Drum & Bass (Sample Pack WAV/APPLE/LIVE)

5Pin Media

Loopmasters

Drum & Bass Blackout (Sample Pack WAV/APPLE/LIVE/REASON)

Loopmasters

Singomakers

Atmospheric Drum & Bass (Sample Pack WAV/APPLE/LIVE/REASON)

Singomakers

Famous Audio

Dark Atmospheric DnB (Sample Pack WAV)

Famous Audio

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