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Five Steps: Bop
August 11, 2014 | Jack Smith 2
To carve a niche out of today’s vast musical landscape is no mean feat. As the pioneer and driving force behind the meticulous ambience that is Microfunk, Bop‘s catalogue is simply wonderful. His fantastic debut album on Med School Clear Your Mind was his … Read More
Five Steps: Utah Jazz
June 17, 2014 | Jack Smith
Over the years, Utah Jazz‘ name has become ubiquitous with the sultry, funk-driven sound we can loosely define as liquid Drum & Bass, though to categorise his sound so definitively would be to also do it a huge disservice. Sample-led and just straight … Read More
Five Steps: A/T/O/S [DEEP MEDi]
March 29, 2014 | Jack Smith
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 Steps: Seba
March 14, 2014 | Jack Smith 1
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
Five Steps: Code | Subtle Audio
February 28, 2014 | Jack Smith
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
Five Steps: Nymfo
February 10, 2014 | Jack Smith
Since his debut release in 2007 Bardo Camp aka Nymfo has not only engineered some of the finest ‘rollers’ to grace the scene to date but has also cemented himself as one of its finest DJs, especially when championing the … Read More
Five Steps: Voyager
December 26, 2013 | Jack Smith 1
As one of the key exponents of GLR-era atmospheric jungle with a plethora of releases reaching as far back as ’94 with his ‘Knowledge’ Remix on Lucky Spin, Pete Parsons aka. Voyager returns after a four-year hiatus with an emotionally- … Read More
Five Steps: Dom Petrie
December 6, 2013 | Jack Smith
First off, big respect to Ingredients for throwing out a seven (!) track extended player from a relative unknown with undoubted talent who goes by the name of Dom Petrie. Very rare in this day and age indeed, as is … Read More
FIVE STEPS: Sinistarr
May 29, 2013 | Jack Smith
Perhaps more than most Sinistarr‘s sound is proving particularly impossible to define. Is it Tech? Deep minimal? Maybe his music finds its comfort zone within the confines of the increasingly popular Juke and footwork sub-genres of recent times. What does … Read More
FIVE STEPS: Bryan Gee
May 27, 2013 | Jack Smith 1
One who certainly needs no introduction, Bryan Gee has and continues to be one of the scene’s front-runners in terms of contribution and commitment to Jungle and Drum & Bass in the twenty-four years or so since first getting involved … Read More