release sheet w/c 19-09-11
New D&B Releases
CRIT057EP – Enei – Stonehead EP – 12″ Vinyl x 2
Oh. My. Gosh. Critical come to conquer with this absolutely dangerous 4-tracker courtesy of Russia’s Enei; a name becoming more familiar by the day as one of the most talented and most exciting new school producers in the game. Snapped up by the ever on point label master Kasra, this EP only makes the prospect of the debut Enei album even more tantalizing. The title track ‘Stone Head’ is a bulldozer of a tune that comes complete with the Andy C seal of approval. A stepper’s paradise with rich kicks and a body-slamming, rolling b-line that’ll send shockwaves through any club. Serious is an understatement! Next up Enei hooks up with vocalist Riya for a proper techy bounder ‘No Fear’ with its undulating bassline that bounces hard taking no prisoners as it moves. The wrecking-ball of the bunch. Moving on and the mood changes slightly to the more flowing sounds of ‘Movin’ Fast’; a naughty, gnarly slice of heavyweight D&B with large feedback-infused bass and sick amen edits that keeps things lively. Wait for the breakdown and switch up though for the killer blow! Then finishing things off in fine style is the heavily hammered Jubei remix of Enei, Eastcolors & Noel’s hit from earlier in the year ‘Cracker’. Keeping the seedy original vibe alive, Jubei goes in deep and comes out the other side with another tough slab of speaker freaker bass and beats. Awesome.
a Enei – Stonehead
b Enei Ft. Riya – No Fear
c Enei – Movin Fast
d Enei – Cracker (Jubei Remix)
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SYMM008 – Break / Villem – Something New / Do You I Wanna – 12″ Vinyl
After the critically acclaimed release of ‘Slow Down VIP’, Break quickly returns with Symmetry’s 8th release. On the A-side, Break lead’s the way, stripping it back with ‘Something New’. This track is a definite head-nodder that retains the classic Break heavy -bass manipulation! Villem aka Andrew Wilson heads up the highly anticipated flip side with ‘Do You Wanna, I Wanna’. Also a key member to Utopia Music, Villem has DJ support from the likes of LTJ Bukem, Doc Scott, Bailey, Martyn and many more. He’s a man of many talents and is also one half of production duo Mute, who are often seen collaborating with rapidly rising Bristol producer Mako. This fantastic AA side completely captures the Symmetry vibe with a quintessentially liquid piano and vocal combination moving into some untouchable percussion. With growing DJ support across the board, Villem is definitely a name to look out for this year.
a Break – Something New
aa Villem – Do You I Wanna
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PLUSH001 – Contract Killers / PFM vs. Formula One – Life Moments (Soundwall VIP) / If You Were Mine – 12″ Vinyl
Plush Recordings first vinyl release has been long-awaited and for good reason. Two fresh vibey takes on drum & bass music — tracks which bring warm melodies and meaningful summer memories to mind and set the mood for dance floor rhythmic rides. On the a-side Soundwall’s remix of Contract Killers “The Life Moments” features warm guitar parts and deep atmospheric pads which lead you into a hypnotizing swing step treatment in the breakdown. PFM and Formula One’s take on the flip is even dreamier, where they have collaborated together a piece of deep vocal music. ”If You Were Mine” features vocals which indulge an airy dream of love, peace, and romance. This 12″ is a true gem for any collector.
a Contract Killers – Life Moments (Soundwall VIP)
b PFM vs. Formula One – If You Were Mine
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NEWTDJ059 – Drumsound & Bassline Smith – Close / Close (Mensah Remix) – 12″ Vinyl
Their latest single from their forthcoming album. Get ready for the wall of sound that will rush to your ears once the drop kicks in. Flip comes with a killer Dubstep remix from Mensah.
a Drumsound & Bassline Smith – Close
b Drumsound & Bassline Smith – Close (Mensah Remix)
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New D&B Promos
SLR011 – Mayhem & Phace / Mayhem – Lightyears Apart / Shibuya – 12″ Vinyl
Finish copy promo. Mayhem & Phace turn up pressure a notch with this 12” Trouser shredding squelch, crunching beats with the trademark sonic manipulation D&B.
a Mayhem & Phace – Lightyears Apart
aa Mayhem – Shibuya
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SIG017 – Calibre – Foreign Bodies / Ugly Duckling – 12″ Vinyl
Finish copy promo. Foreign Bodies / Ugly Duckling are taken from the forthcoming new album ‘Condition’ Watch this space for more info. Supported by Fierce, Kasra, Ant TC1, DJ Friction, Tony Coleman, Fabio, Klute, Marcus Intalex and Presha.
a Calibre – Foreign Bodies
b Calibre – Ugly Duckling
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SOULR052 – Dub Phizix – The Editor / Narrow Eyes – 12″ Vinyl
Finish copy promo. Manchester label Soul:R first launched back in 2001 with releases from Calibre, Marcus Intalex, Marky and more that firmly established them as the go to label for dancefloor friendly drum n bass that soothed the ears rather than assaulted them. 10 years on and they’re still at the top of their game with this release from Dub Phizix. ‘The Editor & Narrow Eyes. Featuring the vocal talents of Strategy, Fox & Chimpo. A real half time Hip Hop/Grime feel but the drums work hard enough to pull apart the dance,
a Dub Phizix Ft. Strategy – The Editor
b Dub Phizix Ft. Fox & Chimpo – Narrow Eyes
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UM005 – Fields – Foundations / Unspoken – 12″ Vinyl
Finish copy promo. After his brother Villem dropped 2 slices of ice cold beats for the last Utopia release, Fields comes with the polar opposite with summer flavours for his first ever solo 12″. The A side is ‘Foundations’, a warm sunshine-filled bass heavy roller with a touch of the melancholy. Driven by simplistic drums shrouded wonderfully by subtle percussion, this roller hits heavy with the bassline, timed perfectly out of a down-sweeping Rhodes, backed-up by a loopy vocal which can only move you. On the flip is a track called ‘Unspoken’, a deep sub-filled minimal affair. It gently warms you with nuanced harps and percussion, before hitting you with stripped-back drums and a wall of sub bass. Dj support: LTJ Bukem, Bailey, Loxy, Total Science, Break, Spectrasoul, Mikal, Flight, Survival and many distinguished others.
a Fields – Foundations
aa Fields – Unspoken
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FOKUZ047EP – Intelligent Manners – Everybody Knows EP – 12″ Vinyl x 2
Finish copy promo. Hot on the heels on our favourite boywonder from kazachstan Command Strange, Fokuz now presents Intelligent Manners straight from ST Petersburg. This double 12inch perfectly defines his funky style and is a great addition to the liquid vibes of Fokuz. A – Still: Drops with a soulfull piano and a light stepping beat, the vocal slips in subtle and creates a hypnotic vibe. piano’s floating throught the air.. and you will imagine yourself in a smokey bar drinking whiskey and reminiscing good old days. B – Everybody Knows: Take us back to the glory days of r’n b. Who ever thought the Russians are not the most funky people on the world, guess again. This guy is funk himself! nice one. C – Never Wanna Be Alone Again: Intelligent Manners on the emotional tip, great piano work on this one and the melody will bring you in the mood for hot summer nights. D – Get Back: The lost track of this wicked double pack is probably the most dj friendly one. Big beats and another melodic master piece will bring the vibe on the dancefloor and the girls screaming for more!
a Intelligent Manners – Still
b Intelligent Manners – Everybody Knows
c Intelligent Manners – Never Wanna Be Alone Again
d Intelligent Manners – Get Back
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FSRECS004 – Forbidden Society – Burn / War Ensemble – 12″ Vinyl
Finish copy promo. The 4th release on FSRECS bring 3 long avaited bangers from Forbidden Society, yes this time only FS solo tunes. Again the tunes was tested during the gigs by FS on a lot of gigs, and not only by FS, also by some of the people in FSRECS camp. The response on gigs was really good and also what the people wrote on the net hearing the clips on youtube or just listen to the tracks in the mixes finally FSRECS brings you the 004. The 4th edition should be out in september, first like usually on vinyl and then two weeks later in digital form with a bonus track. A : Forbidden Society – BURN A nasty banger with rap vocal in it, what to say to this track, dirty, hard, good sounding track that works on gigs with alot of requests when this one comes out from the fans, so you better be sure to get this one! B : Forbidden Society – WAR ENSEMBLE The name of the track says it all what to expect, a real proper Drum & Bass track influenced by alot of metal, specially Slayer!
a Forbidden Society – Burn
b Forbidden Society – War Ensemble
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TANTRUM002 – Zeal & Litta – Screams of Another – 12″ Vinyl
Finish copy promo. For Tantrum’s second release we have a mixture of established and up and coming artists. Screams of Another by new guys Zeal & Litta combines haunting synths and vocals with a slamming drop that kills dancefloors. The track never sits still with loads of edits and surprises throughout making it a track that you just have to listen to all the way through. Scene legend Current Value comes in to remix the track keeping all the original elements and adding a brutal drop and his trademark slamming drums to make one of the biggest dancefloor smashers around. DJ support has come from many of the best DJs in hard drum and bass including DJ Hidden, Cooh, The DJ Producer, Forbidden Society, Thought and many more.
a Zeal & Litta – Screams of Another (Current Value remix)
b Zeal & Litta – Screams of Another
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D&B Restocks Vinyl
LFTD001 – Spor / Evol Intent / Ewun / Unknown Error – The Prologue
MINDTECH001 – Optiv / Rregula – Stereotype / Gravitron
New Bass Music releases
WHEELYDEALY016-1 – Various – Wheelers & Dealers Vol 1 – 12″ Vinyl
Limited Vinyl featuring four club bangers taken from “Wheel & Deal Dubstep Vol 1″ the label’s first compilation album put together by label head honcho DJ N-Type. A Double CD everything Wheel & Deal!
a1 Ben Verse – Wilderness
a2 LX One – Not Good For Me
b1 Benton – Videodrome
b2 Seven – Calculated
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NONPLUS015 – Jon Convex – Radar – 12″ Vinyl
Next up on the label is this brilliant two-tracker from Instra:mental’s Jon Convex. Serving as a taster of his forthcoming debut solo album it’s a hugely impressive 12″ with both sides demanding your attention. There’s a nice old skool eerie, electro feel throughout and the tracks manage that nifty trick of sounding like something from the past and the future at the same time.
a Jon Convex – Radar
b Jon Convex – Vacuum States
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RAT043 – Deekline & Ed Solo – Always R.I.P pt1 – 12″ Vinyl
Remixed from ‘Always’, the Donna Dee & Keatz vocal track. Deekline & Ed Solo add the wobble bass and searing synths into the mix for a rapturous end-‐of-‐ night floor filler. Badmen Eddie K & Minus remix Dustin things into full-on D&B euphoria, before hitting us with the bass for maximum impact in the club.
a Deekline & Ed Solo – Always R.I.P pt1 (Original Mix)
b Deekline & Ed Solo – Always R.I.P pt1 (Eddie K & Minus remix)
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GREC020V – Enchante – North End EP – 12″ Vinyl
Greco-Roman welcomes a new artist to its camp: following some first appearances at the collective’s local events, London-based producer Enchante will soon release his debut EP North End there, while playing the next Berlin label night this Saturday with Azari & III (DJ set) and others at Picknick. And the new material perfectly fits into the usual Greco-diversity: opening track “Ego” offers deep UK garage, while “Reggay” (despite its name) comes in as the finest skweee-2step we have heard in a long while.
a1 Enchante – Ego
a2 Enchante – A45
b1 Enchante – Swaynes Lane
b2 Enchante – Scirocco (Osnabruck)
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New Bass Music Promos
IDLE007 – Kevin McPhee – Sleep / House 44 – 12″ Vinyl
Finish copy promo. Following his release on Naked Lunch, Canadian producer Kevin McPhee returns with his first release on Bristol’s Idle Hands label. ‘Sleep’ gives subtle nods to early Burial tracks whilst showcasing McPhee’s individual charm and a contemporary house sound. ‘House 44’ wears influences from Actress and Herbert on it’s sleeve, offering a stripped down swagger that travels to deeper tones and soulful tendencies. Support from Ben UFO on Rinse and Giles Peterson on Radio 1.
a Kevin McPhee – Sleep
b Kevin McPhee – House 44
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BULLFROG005 – Cluekid – Hawkeye / Recognition Of Youth – 12″ Vinyl
Finish copy promo. Cluekid’s Bullfrog label returns with this killer 12”. Rolling minimal dubstep with no cheese in sight! Deadly
a Cluekid – Hawkeye
b Cluekid – Recognition Of Youth
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SINS006 – Stinkahbell – Something In Your Eyes / GTS – 12″ Vinyl
Finish copy promo. Anthem alert!! 2011 is geared to being a big year for Stinkahbell and ‘Something In Your Eyes’ is the tune that will blow them up. One of the biggest tunes going right now a infectious vocal hook massive vocal track thats won over the support of the likes of Mistajam & Annie Mac. Sin City Recordings are proud to release this alongside GTS.
a Stinkahbell – Something In Your Eyes
b Stinkahbell – GTS
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DRUNK024 – Ekoplekz – Intrusive Incidentalz Vol 1 – 12″ Vinyl
Following critically acclaimed releases with Mordant Music and Further Records earlier this year, Ekoplekz delivers his first album for Punch Drunk. Dispensing entirely with notions of accessibility and dancefloor friendliness, ‘Intrusive Incidentalz vol.1′ is a 12 track collection of dark, oppressive atmospheres and violently unstable interludes, developed through studio improvisation and inspired by childhood memories of terrifying electronic soundtrack music from the 1970s, yet combined with a post-dubstep sensibility and a sense of dread informed by the social, economic and political climate of life in 2011. A bleak retro-futurist fantasy, or oblique soundtrack for a broken Britain? The truth probably lies somewhere between the two.
a1 Ekoplekz – Neutronik II
a2 Ekoplekz – Stahlman Gas
a3 Ekoplekz – Devil Mixture
a4 Ekoplekz – Critical Condition
a5 Ekoplekz – Mangler Fish
a6 Ekoplekz – Soviet Drum Brain Attack
b1 Ekoplekz – Terror/Danger
b2 Ekoplekz – Clodsteps
b3 Ekoplekz – Rogue Circuits
b4 Ekoplekz – Chemical Analysis
b5 Ekoplekz – Psionik Trance
b6 Ekoplekz – Maelstrom
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BOKA036 – Crushington & Optimus Gryme – Hangman / Voodoo Skank – 12″ Vinyl
Finish copy promo’s. Purveyors of maximal minimalism in bass music, Crushington explore the mid-tempo soundworld of dubstep. Inspired to step outside of their box by a face-melting New Years Eve performance from Skream and Benga, for the last two years, Crushington have sonically sculpted their own, well-received take on dubstep. Lacking a developed knowledge of the genre, their unaffected explorations into different tempos and grooves have caught ears everywhere, leading to DJ support from N-Type, Jakes, Emalkay, Distance, Seven, Truth, Bulletproof, Datsick, Excision, Hatcha and Headhunter. Along the way, they’ve collaborated with, or remixed for Black Sun Empire, SPL, Truth, Optimus Gryme and Bulletproof. With high profile support and collaborations boiling over left right and centre and several boutique vinyl releases to their credit, DJ bookings across New Zealand and Australia have come quickly and to lauded receptions. Old school producers and DJs from the era of vinyl and “by ear” engineering, their sonic fidelity has seen their Crushington tunes described by the likes of Antiserum as the perfect studio mixdown reference. To put it in simpler terms, Crushington’s subwoofer rupturing arrangements are fast becoming a standard setter with in the international dubstep community, where things go next from here though; only time will tell.
a Crushington & Optimus Gryme – Hangman
aa Crushington – Voodoo Skank
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WNCL007 – Don Froth – Balboa / Von – 10″ Vinyl
L.A.’s DON FROTH has recently been busy remixing Catelepsia, engineering for DJ Harvey and releasing on his own Froth’N imprint, not to mention his larger-than-life, limited release “10,000cc” for Phonica Records. Here he reminds us all that 138bpm is not yet a spent force. WNCL Recordings is proud to present BALBOA and VON – two trax offering super-fresh beats with exhaustingly endless twists and turns. Strictly for dancers.
a Don Froth – Balboa
aa Don Froth – Von
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SSDUBSTARV1 – Da 3rd Kind – I Obey – 12″ Vinyl
Southside dubstar brings to you New Kid on the Block , just been signed to southside dubstar one of the new up and coming talents, Dj producer Da 3rd kind, track entitled I Obey has had the backing from Scream, M Type, and The Aliens they have been playing this track for the last 6 months. Finally it is ready for release, thankyou for your support,Southside Dubstar.
a Da 3rd Kind – I Obey
Da 3rd Kind – Outcast
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SUBWAYDS005 – 501 – Gist / Borderline – 12″ Vinyl
Its been a long wait but finally 501 returns with yet another bigtime 12inch that will roll out punches even more than Mike Tyson! Fresh off his release from Never Say Die sees 501 twisting it differently this time.. Gist is a vocal infused stomper that opens the 12inch perfectly and sees 501 leaning into a swagger tip. It flows, it rocks, it jumps its everything in 1. It shows a different side to the standard 501 sound and shows he can bend any way he’d like to. You can hear that in the B side ‘Borderline’ where he exchanges the sweet vocals of Gist for a psychotic quote and the swagger lean for some ear shattering kicks & snares. Hear Borderline destroy your eardrums like the good old days with some SUB! Nothing beats the old fashioned heavyweight sound! Another essential 501 record!
a 501 – Gist
b 501 – Borderline
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PHREAKS025 – Mr Vermin – Speakers Up – 12″ Vinyl
Audio Phreaks new boy Mr Vermin is here is with an amazing new single that is sure to tickle a few ear drums. You can instantly hear that Mr Vermin is no stranger to the studio and has a wealth of experience behind him. Not only is Mr Vermin the man lacing down the beats on his productions, but also is the voice behind the catchy vocals that feature on a majority of his tracks. His sound is current, but also extremely unique. It’s only a matter of time until this boy blows, this is Dubstep at it’s best! “The Time is Now” is the A side of this record and is a well rounded, crisp, clean production with bags of cross over appeal. “Speakers Up” is equally as catchy and will send shock waves through the globe..
a Mr Vermin – Speakers Up
b Mr Vermin – The Time Is Now
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Bass Music Vinyl Restocks
SAIGON004 – Orphan101 – Into You EP
LFTDUB002 – Spor – Pacifica
LFTDUB003 – Spor – Pacifica (Vocal Mixes)
ZEN12288 – Mr Scruff – Wobble Control
NONPLUS014 – Skream – Exothermic Reaction
KAP007 – Benga – Faithless / Acid Lie
DP058 – Caspa – Fulham 2 Waterloo Remixes
DUFFDISCO006 – Duff Disco – Grand Master Duff / Slow
ONSLT001 – Kromestar / Genetix – Straight Error / Just In Case
AF009 – Nero – End Of The World / Go Back
GREC021V – Hackman – Close
877001 – Dom – Blakelock EP
SLUDGE015 – Trick Or Treat – Bad Bwoy Tune
If you like you tunes big fat and heavy like an elephant on steroids, then get ready for an absolute pasting from new boy on the circuit, Depone! Depone is a producer that has really caught our ear at the Z Audio towers of late and when you hear these tunes, I’m sure you’ll understand why. All 3 tunes are fierce, dirty, gritty, disgusting and overall very well produced. The great thing about Depone is that he manages to create in your face music without pointlessly wobbling the LFO filter. There’s some real depth to this young talent and I’m sure you’ll be hearing some more great music from Depone in the very near future.
