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Review: Bristol's Tectonic honcho Pinch is celebrating 20 years of the dubstep and bass music recordings outfit with a fresh 24-track compilation, which of course has been further split into four EPs and counting to optimise bassweight and tonearm response. Pinch is reminiscent and proud: "It feels like Tectonic has been a part of so many communities. There's something instinctive that binds all the releases - something that goes beyond words." This fourth comp-selects highlights the work of midcomers in the scene, such as Kahn, Neek, Gemmy and Neffa-T, predominantly courting the 140s but indulging some experiments, with 'Motion Light' creaking through strange midnight bazaar SFX, and 'This Is This Isn't' going buckwild on hard-clip kicks and rib-tickling rims.

Review: Two decades in, the Bristol-born institution still sounds like the future. This wide-ranging compilation gathers new blood and familiar faces into a deep, weighty journey across techno, dubstep and adjacent frequencies, dialling in a vision that feels both forward-looking and steeped in sound system tradition. Standouts include Re:ni's tightrope-tensioned roller, Sicaria's deconstructed club mutations and Beatrice M.'s finely sculpted rhythmic hypnosis-each debuting on the label. Elsewhere, Kahn & Neek return with militant low-end drive, while Om Unit and RSD summon familiar ghosts of the Tectonic back catalogue in newly sharpened form. What unites it all is a spirit of clarity and pressure, true to DJ Pinch's guiding ethos: heads down, eyes closed, bass-first. It's not so much a retrospective as it is a fresh statement of purpose-24 tracks across six plates designed to test systems and point toward what's next.