Bad Company UK are drum and bass royalty, and Planet Dust is one of those tracks that helped define what heavy neurofunk could sound like back when half the people reading this were toddlers. So a Latte remix of it is a big swing, and Latte mostly nails it. The original’s menace is still there in the DNA, but Latte drags it into a modern, surgical kind of heaviness that the current dancefloor actually wants. The reese bass gets this updated grit that would have melted a 2002 sound system into slag. What I respect is that the remix doesn’t try to erase the original’s identity to prove a point. It honors the source while still hitting like something made this year. UKF putting it on the channel makes sense because this is exactly the lineage they’ve documented for years. Old gods, new hands. If you’ve never heard the original, go fix that first, then come back and appreciate what Latte pulled off. Properly heavy.
January
Chrome Daydream
Chrome stars, jelly hearts and holographic colour. A nod to the glossy, optimistic graphics of the early web.