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BASS RECOMMENDATIONS JUNE 2012

Juno Recommends Bass

Juno Recommends Bass

BASS RECOMMENDATIONS JUNE 2012
7 Jun 2012
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Cat: NS 013. Rel: 28 May 12
 
Bass
Ensemble (club mix)
Cake Boss
Plaza
Double Take
Rezday
Club Rez
Review: After breaking through with some powerful EPs on Night Slugs, Girl Unit came back to continue what he started. Interestingly, the grimey element in his earlier output has been replaced by a screamingly loud electro influence, positioned in the kind of snappy funk favoured by EDMX and his Breakin Records posse. From "Ensemble (Club Mix)" to "Plaza", the sharp edges of the synth work chafe against crisp drum machine workouts, leaving six cold crush bangers in their wake. It was something of a departure for Girl Unit, but he's absolutely nailed the target sound with tracks that will absolutely tear up the dance.
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out of stock $12.89
2
Cat: AC 02. Rel: 04 Jun 12
 
Bass
Stacks Riddm
Honig
Review: Georgia producer Helix's "Stacks Riddim" has been burning a hole in people's expectations ever since a certain online streaming phenomenon posted the track last October. Helix has since dropped a rather worthy addition to the Night Slugs White Label series and those who indulged in the looping Berlin techno meets 8bar grime of "Drum Track" will be all over the lead production on this killer All Caps twelve. Described quite artfully as "Spastik" for the bass music cognoscenti, "Stacks Riddim" fizzes with unstoppable attitude and makes this an essential release alone. But wait, the B Side track "Honig" is just as good, launching into a grumbling slipstream of militant techno that threatens to become engulfed by the relentless waves of incandescence.
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out of stock $7.36
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Cat: AUS 1238. Rel: 21 May 12
 
Bass
Placement (Lone remix)
What We Know (Motor City Drum Ensemble dub)
out of stock $8.94
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D BRIDGE presents VELVIT
Cat: CONVEX 002. Rel: 14 May 12
 
Bass
Passing Encounter
Scarlet
Review: It's always a pleasure to see new dBridge material coming in and even more so when it's this darn good! The London-based neo-jungle legend has reasserted himself as a serious contender to the ever-changing world of club music in 2012 and this latest slab of wax for Jon Convex's label is a perfect translation of his drum & bass heritage into more modern contexts. The title track is a pouncing, half-step bomb complete with luscious vocals but it's all about the B here, where the burning bass line of "Scarlet" literally feels like an alteration of his past disciplines into a techno alternative.
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out of stock $8.41
5
Cat: ACLBL 003. Rel: 04 Jun 12
 
Bass
Model
Let Me See
Belle
out of stock $8.41
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Cat: NSLP 002. Rel: 04 Jun 12
 
Bass
Backseat Becomes A Zone While We Glide
Her
The Courts
BAD
How We Relate To The Body
Club Thanz
Hyatt Park Nights (part 1)
Hyatt Park Nights (part 2)
Strawberries
Love Is Real
Review: For all of the genre bending insanity of his early singles on Night Slugs, it's unlikely that anyone could have foreseen Jam City coming out with an album like this. Across ten tracks the producer delivering music that runs the gauntlet between Prince influenced funk that flickers like a burnt out neon sign, Chicago house that sounds like it was made in an echo chamber and Philly club that sounds like it was made for an athletics commercial. Despite its air of detached ADD hyperreality it's an album that's never cold, and never once looks down on the listener ... in short, absolutley essential.

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out of stock $16.31
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Cat: NOM 002. Rel: 21 May 12
 
Bass
Thinking Too Much
Where The Helios
Review: Since he was hand picked out of Soundcloud obscurity for release on Four Tet's Text imprint, the young sweep haired Londoner Juk Juk (or Caleb Waterman) hasn't put a foot wrong. This second release on the fledgling Nomos label is notable for Waterman's ease at approaching the art of peak time music with "Thinking Too Much". (Don't fret, this is peak time music in a manner similar to Four Tet and his melodno contemporaries as opposed to some ill advised EDM direction.) Commencing with an intro that will lull unsuspecting types into a sense of calm, the track is a wonderfully layered trip through psychedelic, spectrally charged techno in full flight and confirms Waterman to be a real talent. Calmer waters are traversed on the flipside track "Where The Helios", with familiar dream-like expanses playfully weaving with the crisp sounding drum rhythms in a manner similar to The Field's first LP.
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out of stock $8.41
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Cat: HFT 022. Rel: 28 May 12
 
Bass
The Wait
Hands In Mine
Review: With the success of his debut release on Untold's Hemlock Recordings still ringing in his ears, newcomer Guy Andrews finds himself snapped up by Hotflush for the next chapter in his burgeoning career in the bass nexus. Everything is altogether beefier than his Hemlock drop, eschewing the more delicate Metalheadz vibe of the first single for some thundering house/techno hybrids in the Joy O & Boddika mould. "The Wait" comes on with juddering mechanical death rattles and warehouse sized flecks of acid bass, all held together with an intricate percussive flair. "Hands In Mine" meanwhile sees a more percussive led variation on the A-Side, drenched in a foggier sort of atmosphere and led by booming toms and gurgling synths running underneath.
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out of stock $6.58
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Cat: RS 1206CD. Rel: 14 May 12
 
Bass
New Colour
The Animal Pattern
As A Child (feat Machinedrum)
Lying In The Reeds
Dragon Blue Eyes
Crystal Caverns 1991
Raindance
Dream Girl/Sky Surfer
Earth's Lungs
Cthulhu
Stands Tidal Waves
Spirals (feat Anneka)
Review: One of the more prolific artists in these times, Matt Cutler is back with his fifth album, which is an impressive feat in just five years of releasing music. It's a disregard for pretention that makes Cutler's music work so appealing, whether it be the exuberant 90s house approach on last album Emerald Fantasy Tracks or his earlier hip hop-tempo bump. Galaxy Garden starts off on a more esoteric tip with the tropical electronica of "New Colour", which captures the cheeriness of Plaid, or more recently Oriol on Planet Mu, in its sunshine chimes. By the time we get to "Lying In The Reeds" we're up to a house tempo that harks back to the softer side of early Detroit, playing with melody in a way that made Kenny Larkin stand out early on. It's when "Crystal Caverns 1991" starts up that we reach the most blatant distillation of old-skool; kicking off a breakstep beat with sweet but punchy 90s synths, the track cuts into a deadly rave motif without so much as a pause in the beat and it's like being back in, er, 1991. It would be easy to write off an album like this as derivative, but no-one can listen to the music itself and call it an imposter. Every track reeks of originality, whether it is the surprising track structures, the superbly detailed production, even the evocative imagery that the music conjures up. If you ever needed an album that felt like wide-eyed, innocent joy, this would be an excellent place to start.
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out of stock $10.46
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Cat: AMB 1202. Rel: 21 May 12
 
Bass
You Won't Let Me
Saviour
Every Time
Black Paint
out of stock $6.30
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Now I've Lost My Number 4 (original)
Feel Like Loving Me (original)
Feel Like Loving Me (Presk Sixt refix)
out of stock $8.41
12
Cat: IDLE 012. Rel: 21 May 12
 
Bass
Margeaux (part 1)
Margeaux (part 2)
Review: As one of the most active members of the Young Echo collective, Kahn has already revealed a sizable spread of styles in his output, and this latest emission for Idle Hands flips the script once again. It's an emotive and linear place we find Kahn in on "Margeaux Pt 1", as a bouncy 2-step beat and chirpy bassline get offset by dense layers of heavily treated vocal from Kahn himself, creating a pastoral kind of vibe as the end result. Meanwhile "Margeaux Pt 2" spaces things out with a more jagged beat and a brooding bottom end, while obviously continuing the theme found on the A-Side.
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out of stock $6.58
13
Cat: 50WEAPONSLP 07. Rel: 28 May 12
 
Bass
Nightshifts
Twilight (feat Pantasz)
Yudasi
Die Maschinistin
Black Boulder
Abaw 723
Mosquitoes
Leave A Light On (feat Tunde Olaniran)
Hope Light
Slavemode (album version)
12th
Review: Having moved through many different bass-led approaches over the years, the recent spate of Phon.O output for Fifty Weapons has been some of the most refined work of his career to date. Now he makes good on that developing relationship with this long player, which comes in an eclectic but honest spread of melodic electronic music. There are occasional vocal appearances but they still play second fiddle to the intricacies of Phon.O's compositions, which sport the occasional broken beat, the occasional 4/4 thud, and of course those grey pulses in between. It's immersive and accomplished, not to mention thoroughly cohesive from start to finish.
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out of stock $15.76
14
Cat: 2NDRP 12019. Rel: 14 May 12
 
Bass
Sanctuary
Roofy
out of stock $8.94
15
Cat: FC 108. Rel: 21 May 12
 
Bass
Agent White (Kidkanevil Agent Black remix)
An Old Escape (Kill Them Kill) (Dabrye remix)
Chasing The Midnight Moth (Ikonika remix)
Never Lie Twice (Om Unit remix)
One For Dimlite (Scumbag remix)
out of stock $9.45
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Cat: 877 003. Rel: 28 May 12
 
Bass
Camaro
Torino
Review: Two UK bass producers unite on this very tasty release from 877, with Pasteman and Tanka nailing it on the arpeggio-fest "Camaro" - which balances an echo soundscape with some truly booty-spanking Addison Groove-esque 808 work - and the more murky dub-house of "Torino".
out of stock $8.41
17
Cat: TEC 060LP. Rel: 07 May 12
 
Bass
The Sun
Feed Me
Preach On Hustle
Around The Fire
Venom
Rattlesnake
House Party Five
Drop Like This
Gorilla
Not Cool
Temple People
Boca Ratawan
She Wears Pearls
Review: Amid much anticipation, Distal's album crash lands on Tectonic in a myriad of electronic styles all thoroughly typical of the plucky Atlantan. There's raw juke-isms on "Preach On Hustle", where the Chicago style gets slowed down and spread out, while on "Around The Fire" you'll find a swung techno framework full of alluring melodies just under the surface. There's melodica-baiting dubstep on "Rattlesnake", while electro gets pitched down for the peak time banger "House Party Five". Everywhere you turn, Distal's supremely developed production stands out, whatever vibe he's turning his hand to. In the end, that skill becomes the glue that holds this free ranging album together.
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out of stock $12.61
18
Cat: ACRE 035. Rel: 04 Jun 12
 
Bass
Pascal's Chorus (feat Alby Daniels)
Speak Nuh
San'en (feat Alby Daniels)
Yesterday's Fall (feat Alby Daniels)
out of stock $14.72
19
Cat: RWINALP 001S. Rel: 14 May 12
 
Bass
Regis Chillbin
Regis Chillbin (Machinedrum remix)
out of stock $6.84
20
Cat: NK 34. Rel: 28 May 12
 
Bass
Joy Pain Fear Hate
Nightlif
Antikythera
out of stock $9.45
21
Cat: RUCKUS SMAK. Rel: 14 May 12
 
Bass
Talk Smak VIP
Ruckus Raffle
out of stock $10.00
22
Cat: CIV 034. Rel: 28 May 12
 
Bass
Dilated
No Cure
Thro-Yo!
Rasclap
out of stock $9.45
23
Cat: UNO 011. Rel: 21 May 12
 
Bass
Human Rights
Give In (For The Fame)
Untitled
Temple
out of stock $10.46
24
Cat: AWK 006. Rel: 07 May 12
 
Bass
Fading Floor
Shockout (Maddslinky remix)
Shockout
Fading Floor (Raimo refix)
out of stock $7.36
25
Cat: BLNK 002. Rel: 07 May 12
 
Bass
3rd World
Hit It From The Back
out of stock $8.41
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