New releases this week: Breakbeat

Review: Loryn's new EP on Karrousel Records is a four-track trip that merges dark breakbeats with poetic melodies. That duality makes for great drama and the opener 'Fury Of Love' is a lithe affair with clean lines and snappy drums next to melancholic piano chords. 'Dance Duty' is dustier and more kinetic with its breaks and backlit celestial chords and 'Black Sun' then gets astral with shooting laser-like synths and gurgling basslines journey through the cosmos. 'Eternal Paws' is an ethereal closer with more angelic chords powered by tight, punchy breaks.

Review: ***B-STOCK: Sleeve damaged but otherwise in excellent condition***


Electronic legends Meat Beat Manifesto aka Jack Dangers and DHS aka Benjamin Stokes have been making music together for a long old time now so really know how to find a sweet spot between their respective sounds. In this case, they emerge from their lab with four finely tuned dancefloor destroyers that are steeped in a rich history of UK-centric sounds. 'Pandemic' is a wonky acid opener with plenty of warped designs and big breaks, then 'Aggressive Mantis Squad' brings more live drum breaks under crashing percussion and edgy synth terrors. 'Automatic Mouth' is a bass-driven and body-popping rhythm designed to get the floor popping before the all-out breakbeat assault that is 'International Sound System.'

Review: Vromm is back on the Over/Drive label with a new EP of spaced out and cosmic electronic energy. 'Molecular' is a restless mix of breaks and jungle effects, lots of squelchy sonic details and off-grid hits. 'Prism' is a moody and stripped back one with a minimal rhythm but plenty of gliding synth tension in the air then Kid Drama steps up to flip the opening cut into a rolling stomper with big horns. 'Zoom' closes out with more shiny metal surfaces, distant buzz saws and glistening melodies over a loose, jumbled rhythm.

Review: Core T4T LUV NRG crew member Bored Lord is back with one of her most extensive releases to date - an album of transcendent queer rave music that confirms her visionary insight into what makes true dancefloor magic. As with so much transmitting from the T4T universe, there's an inherent sense of spirituality to these kaleidoscopic creations, but they're also fundamentally rooted in the strictures of rave. You'd never call it derivative, because there's a wild-eyed originality to the harmonic interplay which feels like teetering on the brink of a heavy trip, but it also feels eternal and comfortably familiar. As a combination of feels, it's devastatingly potent.