Review: Vinyl Fanatiks release their first EP for 2024, celebrating their 6th year of repressing incredible UK music from the early to mid-90s. Kicking things off is a veritably sordid slice of jungle heritage from Hyper Records, DJ Panik & DJ Freaky 'In Da Jungle', featuring the incredible vocals of Sleepy Ranks. Backed on the B by 'Higher', which also appeared on the original EP, both trax here are utter badboys, bringing a casual MC's heat and inimitably classic-raw sound to the mix.
Review: Dom & Roland's Industry set new standards when it was released on Moving Shadow in 1998. This was a vision of d&b as a cinematic vessel like never before, pushing the limits of sound design in a style which has been standard practice ever since. Steely and intense, it's as fresh and relevant now as it was when it first laid waste to the scene in a blizzard of industrial strength drums and dystopian moods. Newly remastered and now spread across five plates (compared to the still considerable four it originally arrived on), this is a landmark slice of drum & bass history given the ceremonious reappraisal it deserves.
Submorphics - "Daydreaming" (feat Big Brooklyn Red - Echo Brown remix) (4:34)
Zero T & Unitsouled - "Slightest Moment" (feat KSR - remix) (4:53)
Lenzman - "Walk On By" (Satl remix) (4:55)
Redeyes - "Untitled Soul" (4:10)
FD - "Top2Bottom VIP" (6:27)
Review: The North Quarter label serves up nine exclusive tracks on this superb double LP which is the culmination of many years friendship of Lenzman & Dan Stezo. The former lays down the seamless flow while the latter delivers perfectly introspective lyrics in a heart aching falsetto and all the tunes are solely from The Northern Quarter associates. The liquid drum & bass grooves are soulful and soaring, with plaintive pianos draped over the silky sequences. It's a warm and emotive listen for days at home as well as once dance floors open up again. Favourites include Zero T & Unitsouled's frictionless 'Slightest Moment' and FD's deep diving closer 'Top2Bottom VIP.'
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