Parisian d&b artist Naibu has been a firm favourite for a while now. Creating stunning liquid tracks, he’s a true crate digger who utilises the sampling techniques close to our heart while adding beautiful melodies of his own, laid back pads and infections basslines to juxtapose the past and the future. Dusty crates meet space [...]
Technicolour & Komatic- We Were Always One/The Glow: Fresh off the back of one of my favourite 12s of recent times, Centrifuge/Winter Rose on Spearhead Records, Technicolour is joined by long time collaborator, Komatic, for their second SGN LTD release. We Were always One on the A side kicks things off with a bang, with [...]
French producer Naibu, who hails from Parisian suburbs, carves soundscapes like no other. Blending samples, live recordings and intricate synth work effortlessly he conjures imagery of Japanese geishas strumming beautiful harmonies. To add to an already impressive string of releases, including two eps and an album, he’s just released Habitat, a ten track album on [...]
Horizons are a label that’s been around for a long time now, with a release list pushing the fifty mark and a massive variety of music from a whole host of artists. They’re also acting as purveyors for some of the futuristic, minimal d&b that’s really come to the forefront of the scene recently, so [...]
Linden & Blocks are two producers that have flown through the d&b ranks recently, securing releases on labels such as Horizons and Renegade. As a collab team, they´ve recently released an Ep and are coming with a really nice new, futuristic, forward thinking sound that does well to not be pigenholed by it´s tight, more [...]
Hereford based d&b duo Amoss have really sprung up recently, releasing on some really high quality labels such as Renegade and Horizons, in the darker, deeper side of d&b. They’ve got a really fresh, techno influenced, sound that adds a new slant but still hits hard with bass and energy and their debut Ep, Alignment [...]
When I first saw the artwork Icelandic designer Siggeir Hafsteinsson, who goes by the name Sig Vicious, had produced for June Miller’s Converge/Neurosis 12″ on Horizons, I was blown away (also amazing music!). The whole vinyl and sleeve was designed to perfection and made a really nice product. Looking into him a bit more I [...]
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