Spotlight: Sina

Following on from his debut release on UE favourite Silent Dust‘s none60 imprint, we thought it apt to put the spotlight on Dublin-based producer Sina: an artist whose richly-textured sound marries strong emotional drive with a penchant for broken arrangements … Read More

Digging Deep: 6th Borough Project

Craig Smith and Graeme Clark, better known collectively as 6th Borough Project, have been flying the flag for Glasgow’s house scene with their impossibly groovy brand of funk and disco-sampling productions for the best part of 5 years now.

Since … Read More

Digging Deep: ENA

Lurking in the far-flung Oriental corner of the Minimal-170 genre is Tokyo based producer, ENA.  Producing under several different monikers, including Yu Aseda and other apparently more ‘secret’ aliases, ENA’s releases have been sporadic since 2008 and have often gone … Read More

Five Steps: A/T/O/S [DEEP MEDi]

March saw the debut release from A/T/O/S on DEEP MEDi: a collaborative LP from producer Truenoys and songstress Amos that eschews the inherent need for bass-weight in favour of a more musical approach to your standard Dubstep template. A Taste Of … Read More

Five Essentials: Liston

This week saw the release of Leeds-based producer Liston‘s Skyscrapers EP on Melodica Recordings – a four-track piece that stays true to the label’s namesake as it explores a vast array of different styles and musical tones, its themes all … Read More

Five Essentials: Deft

Straddling the divide between the Civil Music, Planet Mu etc-inspired dystopian half-tempo and the scene’s recent reinvention of Chicago footwork sits Deft‘s colourful oeuvre of work in 2014; a versatile and above-all supremely fine-tuned catalogue, from Voight Kampff‘s multi-genre abstraction … Read More

Five Steps: Seba

An artist who needs no introduction – we’ll give it a good crack anyway – and possibly Sweden’s finest export since Henrik Larsson is the one and only Seba. Pivotal at the height of GLR-era Jungle and a mainstay throughout its … Read More

Spotlight: LinG

The start of the month saw newcomer LinG drop a single that sat a step above what you would usually come to expect from a debut release. Released on UK-based collective Get Some, Anthracite’s is an aggressive sound that draws … Read More

Spotlight: Jay Prince

After years lurking in the shadows, grime has in the last few years seen the meteoric rise of some of its founding forefathers and most prominent figures to mainstream chart success. But that hype seems to have come and gone, … Read More

Five Steps: Code | Subtle Audio

For a movement that can credit its origins to the most important six second drum loop of all time, we have sure seen a kaleidoscopic evolution in sound – Jungle and Drum & Bass having continued to mould, rethink and … Read More