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Vizzen - BOUNCE!
Read more . . . →The title is the entire instruction manual. Vizzen’s “BOUNCE!” is UK bass built for one purpose, and it gets there around the first drop, which lands like a trampoline with a personal vendetta. This is that springy, rubbery bass-house sound the UK does so well, where the low end pogos, all spring and no dead weight. The vocal is chopped into a single repeated syllable that turns into its own percussion. What gets me is how much space is in the mix: there’s room to breathe between the bass stabs, so each one lands clean instead of smearing into mud....
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Taiki Nulight, Casey Club & Diligent Fingers - Take Out Your Team (ft. P Money)
Read more . . . →Put P Money on anything with a half-step rhythm and the whole thing tilts toward grime before the bass even shows up, which is exactly what happens here. Taiki Nulight has been quietly one of the most reliable people in UK bass for years and nobody outside the scene gives him enough credit, so a three-way link with Casey Club and Diligent Fingers feels overdue rather than random. The drop hits like a fire door slamming in a stairwell, all metal and echo, and P Money rides it like he’s been waiting his whole life for a beat this rude....
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Pete & Bas - Oldschool Gangsta
Read more . . . →Pete & Bas are two guys in their seventies making drum and bass and absolutely cooking the genre’s younger practitioners in the process. Oldschool Gangsta is exactly what the title says — there’s a swagger here that comes from not caring what anyone thinks, and it absolutely works in a DnB context. DnB Allstars championing these two is one of the better things to happen to the scene in years. The MCs bring the old school UK grime energy that DnB has always had a relationship with, and hearing it pushed this far to the foreground feels like someone finally...
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