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Alex Metric
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Shifting Gears with more minimalist
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Remix) Element glitches it up massive in stature — he’s about 6’9”
Finger Lickin’
superbly. — and this is the release that should
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The two biggest and send him stratospheric. He may shy
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away from being labelled ‘breakbeat’
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— and friendly rivals — Elite Force but Metric’s glitchy electro has enough
have indulged in a remix Jack The Joint broken rhythms to keep beatfreaks
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swap, and here the
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Stantons inject the Shack’s 2003 classic on nu-electro cognoscenti. ‘Deadly…’
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h Rd, R ‘Headthrash’ album track Kingsize receives some ace features Metric himself on vocals,
with more funk and a reworks here. Zodiac singing a rousing hooky chorus like a
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sassier bottom end. Cartel mines a fi dgety, seasoned indie pro. Should be as big as
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Justice. AutoKratz rework in a similarly
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wibbly tech furrow,
Deepgroove offer a sparse amazing fashion for a release that
Lee Coombs minimalistic prepares the ground for Metric’s hotly
Control interpretation, and anticipated album early next year.
Lot49
Introspective prepares a
Another big hitter, this is a relentless peak-time
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less intense and housier electro powerdriver. Tasty
cut from Lee Coombs. The remix package indeed. Boogie Army Nextmen also show how their hip-hop fi ring double-header. A sassy ragga gal
Dolphins come at the
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Big Old Butt/Robots In sound has expanded with more hotwires streetwise rhymes into
Disguise half-time dubsteppy bizness. ‘Gunclip’ with venomous aplomb over
Westway
Marvellous. Ramirezy keys and pounding big bad
Westway continue their run of quality
releases with this double-header from
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beats, while ‘Sizzla’ is less gangsta and
more dancehall. A searing electronic
Germany’s biggest breakbeat act. ‘Big Nine Lives The Cat lead line is soon joined by some Rasta
Old Butt’ emplores you to shake what Vicious toasting, but really this is all about the
yer mamma gave you, with ground-out
West
bombastic acidic top line. Another
beats, rude zippy bass, cool cuticle FX, Dan Walker may have abandoned these dancefl oor detonator from the
sirens and a Stantons booty-shakin’ shores temporarily to go to play in a ever-consistent Mofo camp.
feel. That’s until the sweeping almost band somewhere, but in his fl eeting
trancey strings come in to supply a stay he’s sprayed a great positive mark
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bona fi de hands-in-the-air moment. on the scene. Here the MC/producer Hedfl ux
Buttons pushed, the fl ip pays homage drops a big beat-ish acidic rocky shouty Non-Stop
to the Transformers series to appeal to hardcore thang that still contains da
Breakin Even
Dancefl oor destroyer! the big kid still inside us all. funk amidst everything that’s going Steve Young (Hedfl ux) makes his debut
CUT LA ROC
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on. For the remix, label honcho Steelz on the consistent Groove Diggerz label
has called upon man-of-the-moment with this gurgling acidic dancer. “They
ROCSTAR
Stanton Warriors Rico Tubbs to rerub in his gangsta have come to dance/Right through the
feat Big Daddy Kane garage hardcore stylee. Skippy beats night,” narrates a Tom Baker type
Get Wild and wobbly b-line help get yer wiggle sporadically as an urgent b-line and
Mr No Hands
Punks
on before more of those trademark freaky whooshes power it onwards. Ben
Button Down (Groove Diggerz Remix) Dom and Mark revisit their collab with hardcore stabs lift it into the rocky Hash Key’s rejig is a minimal
Air Recordings
the hip-hop hero to inject more ‘08 section. Oi Oi! squelchathon, while the on-fi re Cut La
“If you’re looking for something fresh and vibrant then bounce and atmosphere into it. Soft
look no further than Mr No Hands. He creates funky ‘80s synth stabs and interweaving
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Roc turns in a linear electronic rework
with all sorts of other ‘joy of rave’
breakbeat music without the generic drum patterns and squiggles complement Kane’s rhymes Beat Assassins samples thrown into the pot. The
with refreshing synth sounds to boot. nicely, and the remixes are pretty large Gunclip/Sizzla pressure is ramped up in a sorta similar
“Combine that with the mighty Groove Diggerz and you too. Bassbin Twins employs varyingly
Mofo
way to his forthcoming massive
have a grand meeting of minds. From the subtle building paced neo-dubstep riddims with a These bad-ass urban electro breakbeat ‘Hypertension’ release on this
intro to the smack-in-your-face drums, you know you’re fantastic bass drop and slo-mo dudes have bludgeoned their way into futuristic progressive rework.
in for a treat. Twisted basslines fused with almost rock breakdown. Deekline & Ed Solo turn it the upper echelons of the scene, and
guitar vibes and a tripped-out breakdown — winner!” into an electro bodypopper, and The continue the pressure with another
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