drum and bass
Album Review : Herandu – ‘Ocher Red’ : a dazzling jazz-fusion journey from the brothers Gavrilov.
If there was a section in the record store for ’Music by Brothers’ just imagine how expansive that would be. Stretching from the Everlys to the Johnsons, Louvins to the JAMC boys and beyond, the genre could probably consume all others. But there is something else about brotherly music-making, whether driven by love or hate, …
Live Review: Piri – Project House, Leeds 08.11.23
As part of a 6-date Extra Hot tour, Piri is showing just how far she has come in the last 12 months, touring pretty much non stop, travelling the world and growing in confidence all the time. With a minimal stage set to work with, Piri and her 2 dancers (Ines Galnares and Millie Gallimore) …
EP Review: Various Artists – Planet Socool
Curated by Andy ‘Epicentre The Dragon’ and Emily Socool, and out on the formers Dragon Trax imprint is a compilation of some of the best in new liquid drum & bass, featuring artists from Sheffield, Vancouver and Edinburgh. Vancouvers Socool is joined by fellow Canadian DJ Soo for the EP opener Yay Baby, and it’s …
Album Review: Goldie – Timeless (The Remixes) LP
‘Timeless’ is one of electronic music’s most critically acclaimed and influential albums. Written over a quarter of a century ago, it remains as relevant and influential as ever for new generations: a breathtaking and space-age symphony of meticulous synth craft, cinematic sound design and atmospheric breakbeats. The album set a new standard, reached new highs …
News: LustSickPuppy to play The Workman’s Club Cellar, Dublin 10th of June
Singular Artists proudly presents Brooklyn based act LustSickPuppy live in The Workman’s Club, 10th June 2023. Tickets are available from www.singularartists.ie Following their debut EP ‘Cosmic Brownie’ and a collaboration with Machine Girl’s Matthew Stephenson, 2022 saw LustSickPuppy releasing their sophomore EP ‘As Hard As You Can’, featuring collaborations with Bonnie Baxter of Kill Alters …
EP Review: LOXY & INK – SPRAY TRAINS OF THOUGHT – on R&S
Stalwarts of the drum & bass scene for nearly three decades, London duo Loxy & Ink open up their 2022 account with a new single ‘Spray Trains Of Thought‘. The UK breakbeat pioneers have racked up an arsenal of releases for breakthrough labels such as Metalheadz, Hospital Records and Renegade Hardware, as well as their …
Exclusive: Young producer / DJ Unded provides Backseat Mafia with an exclusive Drum n Bass mix; check it out, here
Young MC / DJ and producer Unded has provided us here at backseat mafia with a brilliant Drum n Bass mix. He’s part of the Tek Devil crew, who have parties down in the South West and on the South Coast of England, and has a single coming out soon with SIROCK. On the mix, …
Album Review : Twofish release the cinematic and transfixing album ‘At Least A Hundred Fingers’: a dynamic sonic landscape that defies genre.
The album ‘At Least A Hundred Fingers’ by duo Twofish is an epic, cinematic musical journey that ebbs and flows with intensity and dynamism. Difficult to slot into any genre, it has the vibrancy of Dead Can Dance with an infusion of world instrumentation – many synthetic, some organic – and a syncopated thrum throughout …
New Music: Imaginary Number – YUKUWHT001 EP
Before we kick off with the first vinyl only release from Yuku, here is a little info on one of my new favorite labels that’s hitting it out the park with their Bass, IDM, Experimental, Down Tempo, Drum and Bass. YUKU is a record store, label, gallery, and exploratory space located in Žižkov, Prague. Brimming …
TRACK: Four Tet shares his remix of Krust’s ‘Negative Returns’; remixes 12″s out consecutive Fridays
HE’S been a long time away, but boy is he back ever. Bristol’s Krust dropped his first full LP release in 14 years just last month, The Edge Of Everything; and a thrilling, crisp, intelligent journey through all the potent possibilities on offer from the lower end of the frequency spectrum it is too; no …