GARAGE/GRIME/DUBSTEP
QUICKIES
The fusion of breaks and
Beatmonkeys bassline with an old skool,
PHILIPP
How You Like Me raver-friendly twist that
Now? should strike the right
777
note with both garage and
A REED
Check out Rico Tubbs’ old breakier fl oors.
skool-tinged squelching
Flat 1
bassline mixes that’ll have
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you thinking of The Soda Boys feat
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Wideboys’ Upnorf Smith The 38 P
incarnations. Mister
eper
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Everybody Cha Cha
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Soda Boys har
Hervé feat Sorta fusing US hip-hop,
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w Rd, Godalming, Sur
Plastic Little UK dubstep and bassline
Cheap Thrills house, this has the same
(Armand Van kind of wayward charm as
Helden Mix) Wiley & Skepta’s ‘Rolex
MONE
Y
Data
Sweep’.
SHO
T!
Not strictly on the UKG tip,
but remember ‘Professional
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Widow’? This isn’t as good TC
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, GU7 2PW
Ashley Walters but Mandy still knows how Where’s My Money
M.O. Part 2 feat Durrty MRK1 Jaimeson to do big and ballsy (Caspa Remix)
Goodz & Sway Get Out Clause Selecta (Paleface & Viper bassline four-to-the-fl oor.
D Style Recordings
Abstract Urban Earwax
Remix)
Having come though some problems Here’s another devilish double-tracker
VPR/Northern Line
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Cunningly working around
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the entertaining vocals of
in his recent past, Mr Walters is from one of the undoubted innovators Jaimeson (back when he didn’t use the Atomic the original, the friendly
arguably the most successful (and of the scene, renowned for exploring ‘i’) undoubtedly went for the jugular Hooligan ghost rolls out grinding,
together) member of So Solid, who some of the murkier waters of the genre. when he fi rst dropped this classic, with Electro Ain’t Electro looping bass warps that
has managed to forge both a The title track rolls and punches its way an iconic piece of MCing by Viper. Well,
Botchit & Scarper
will simply stab you into
successful music and acting career. along courtesy of some bubbling, they have seen fi t to revisit this ravers’ Rico Tubbs pops up once mushy submission.
His star looks set to continue to rise boulder-like breaks and an acidic delight and, for starters, Paleface and again with another funky
with this banger, produced with bassline howl. ‘Infection’ does indeed Viper’s new mix will have the fl oors in a
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some serious urban classic skill by sound like some insidious virus, with its frenzy all over again. It remodels the
True Tiger’s Paul Fynn. The trio of bloodstream-like pulse and deathly track in a bassline style — but then
MCs spark and riff off each other half-time rhythm. Dark? Of course it is! Jaimeson was surely a forerunner of this
— as slick (and sick!) as you like. This is MRK1 just how we like it — genre himself. Soo-oo-lectah!
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seeping, scary dubstep.
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TRC
The Count & Sinden Hush Baby EP
Jodie Aysha Hardcore Girls EP
Strictly Bangorz
So Typical
Domino
Representing the more rubbery, bouncy
White
Some self-consciously cool electro and blatantly up-for-it side of the
Jodie was, of course, the young lady stylings on this EP, but it’s the added joy bassline scene, TRC’s ‘Hush Baby EP’ has
who lent her distinctive trill to T2’s of J.M.E’s legendary ‘Industry’ that been bumping its way up and down the
breakthrough bassline anthem deserves the serious kudos here. Laying land, lead by the vocal title track
‘Heartbroken’ and it’s clear this down a shattering 4/4 kickdrum — not featuring Abi. More amusing, however,
19-year-old knows how to create a vocal to mention a warping wobbler of a grimy is ‘Bad Boy Style’ featuring PSG’s
hook. This fi ne ditty has been circling bassline — J.M.E comes up with some of infamous MC-hiccups — a truly barking
around ravers’ heads and refusing to his fi nest, sharpest lyrics about music track. Finally, ‘Burgastyle’ tops the lot in
vacate, such is the magnetic power of biz shenanigans and just how silly the terms of irrepressible bounce. A trio of
those simple words: “So typiCAL, la la whole thing can be. A grimy bassline party bangers from this fun-loving,
la.” Galloping 4/4 and cascading banger. Altogether now... “Some MCs fl oor-fi lling label.
basslines complete the hypnotic thrill, are delusional...”
whilst Mystic Matt’s mix is an extra treat.
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Various
Tes La Rok The Vaults
Dancefl oor destroyer!
Samurai Gunz Up In The VIP/Living Fire
Yellow Machines
Class of 88/F*** The Funk
Dub Police
Time for some droid-step, anyone? CAPER
Mamas Pie
Something a little fresh from this Warlock’s ‘Click Clack’ is surely the sound
Lovers of the old skool will delight in the producer, eschewing the dark, sub bass of machines in serious distress, with its
STUDIO ROCKERS
copious re-use of the “Hype the funk” stylings of the genre and instead electronic oozings and screams quite
sample so beloved by garage ravers of a rocking up with some highly musical and pleasingly unnerving. Likewise, Matt A Made Up Sound
certain vintage, who would storm the dare we say ‘gentle’ vocal offerings. Green’s devious ‘No Options’ lets the Next/Density
fl oors when Reach & Spin’s classic hit Both tracks are heavily dub reggae seeping sub bass speak liquid volumes.
Sub Solo
the decks. This time round it’s to be infl uenced and feature full vocals that From the dark sophistication of “Dubstep meets techno in one of the deepest and most
found spicing up this thoroughly nutty, give plenty of authentic fl avas. Not that Scanone’s ‘The Vaults’ to the funkier rhythmic releases the scene has had for a long while.
high-energy bassline tune that isn’t a these don’t have a fi rm footing on the bleep-fest of Blackmass Plastics’ ‘Short ‘Next’ makes excellent use of syncopated, skippy drums
million miles away from one of the dancefl oor — just a little more sweetly Circuits’, this technically elegant EP is as but it’s the deep pulsing bass that gives it its main groove.
Jaxx’s genre-spanning party tricks. Big, swaying than screwface. For those sharp as one of Gordon Ramsey’s “The standout track, however, is ‘Density’, a slower affair
brash, bassline ‘n’ breaks-friendly feeling the smoky, vocal sides of the kitchen knives. where deep sub bass weaves in and around the warped 4/4
madness. scene.
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drum loop. This is atmospheric club music at its best.”
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