Review: 93 Million Miles, the debut full-length from longtime friends and sometime musical partners Mark Pritchard and Steve Spacek, should be essential listening for anyone who enthusiastically uses the catch-all term "bass music". With its warping fusion of percussive sounds and styles (digital dancehall, footwork, house, dubstep, techno, grime etc) with rough analogue electronics and, most importantly, seriously heavyweight basslines, it's simultaneously outrageously far-sighted and comfortingly retrospective. Along the way, there are anthemic moments (the already huge "Out In The Streets", the Chicago Juke-inspired "Foot Step"), forays into wonky tech-soul ("Our Luv", "Spirit", "Don't Fight It"), sweet space-jazz jams ("Cyclic Sun") and bassbin-busting speaker assaults ("Gangslap") - all wrapped up in Pritchard and Spacek's immaculate space-age production.
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