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Juno Recommends Bass
Juno Recommends Bass Best of 2021
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Review: Numbers present a very special release from old friend SOPHIE. On the A we have a fulfilled prophecy... Back in 2015 SOPHIE stated that no one could remix her, unless it's Autechre. Five years later, they delivered. Slowing SOPHIE's subverted take on classic NY house down to an 1989-style, B-side dubby trip, the pioneers keep that riff bubbling subtly but bring her voice to the fore in a sultry, 6AM way. Flip for another special as a bonus digital track 'Unisil' brings a brittle technoid twist on wax for the first time. This can make you feel better.
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Review: Manchester's revered DJ and producer Anz makes a long-awaited debut on Ninja Tune here with her standout All Hours EP. On it, the artist pays tribute to many different aspects of electronic music from across the ages. It is ambitious in that regard, but more than pulls off the task as it soundtracks a whole 24 hour period. After the warm bass and finger clicks of the opener come upbeat summer melodies and slapping electro-funk on 'You Could Be,' shuffling UKG vibes that are super sweet on 'Real Enough To Feel Good,' blistering old school breaks on 'Inna Circle' and a rave tinged old school and hardcore banger on 'Last Before Lights.' These genre-bending sounds are infectious and joyous in equal measure.
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Review: It's a London meets Bristol thing right here as the Tribal Brothers and DJ Polo go toe-to-toe with some beautiful drumcraft. Sitting between kuduro, UK funky and afrobeat, each of these four club-ready cuts are stripped back to the bare rhythm essentials, honing our focus on different elements. On the opener '12hrs' it's the steel drum shimmers. On 'Three Tribes' it's the raw minimalism and human textures while 'Bullet Rise' is all about the big bulging bass tones. Finally 'The Problem' switches to a halftime, creating even more space and mysticism in the mix. It's high time we all linked up.
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Review: Felipe Salmon and Rafael Pereira aka Dengue Dengue Dengue are the Peruvian masked duo who make unmistakable music. The Lima based pair have been writing their own rules since 2012, and in 2014 came their most standout work, an incredible six-track EP 'Serpiente Dorada' that took their sound in even bolder new directions. Infused with everything from cumbria to zouk, dancehall to reggae, the experimental 120bpm beats twist and turn you inside out and ow make it to vinyl for the first time via the Enchufada label.
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Review: High pressure manoeuvres from Ilian Tapes on this mysterious and highly limited one-off run. 'Pulse' is a Samurai style slab of hybrid dub techno that's layered in grains and textures whole 'Procedure' flips the UK garage two-step vibe into a distorted, crunchy and physical groove that's not dissimilar to Tim Wright's early work on Mute. Once again, a very special release from Ilian... Blink and you'll miss it.
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Review: Fresh from releasing his album Siege and then winning the Goldie Awards earlier this year, beatmaker maverick Tsuruda now makes his EP debut on Perez's 1985. 'Fugitives' takes the lead. A collab with Alix himself, it's a big droning slab of menacing halftime, all tense and stern. It's backed by plenty more heat... 'Kaio' is all about the scratchy funk and bass harmonics, 'Out Of Pocket' is a much creepier affair while the title track 'Migi' is an off-the-wall dubsteppy funk-up that only Tsuruda could create and make it make sense. Supreme grizzles.
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Review: Ehua debuted on the Nervous Horizon label in 2019 when it put out its third compilation. Now she returns with a full solo EP after also impressing not he likes of femme culture in 2018. Once again she layers up sub-aquatic rhythms with cavernous bass and deft sound designs to make for big, roomy tracks that also make a heavy impression. 'Xantho' is a brilliantly drunken sounding tune that rocks on its heels, 'Black' drills down hard on a UK funky tip and 'Jellyfish' they layers up rubbery bass and leggy drums into perfect body music.
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Review: It's been a long time between drinks for Leeds lad Iglew, a producer whose last significant release of any sort came way back in 2015. There's a definite "making up for lost time" feel about this comeback EP on Wisdom Teeth, a five-track set that pulls UK bass in a myriad of different directions, all of which are hugely attractive. Check first opener 'Caffeine Dream', a mutant techno excursion full of beefy sub-bass, trippy electronics and hazy chords, before admiring the weighty depth and dreaminess of the leisurely, hot stepping 'Gold'. Elsewhere, 'Light Armour' is a delightful dab of instrumental experimental synth-pop, 'Microfunk Lament' sounds like Akufen-style micro-house and 'digital disco' given a 2021 twist, and 'Hawksworth Woods' is a chiming ambient delight.
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Review: UK producer Hugo Massien has built a fine following for his bass heavy inventions over the last few years. Now he capitalises on that with a fantastic debut album for E-Beamz that finds him perfect his signature sound while exploring new territory. It comes after plenty of big 12"s on XL Recordings, Keysound, 17 Steps and Unknown to the Unknown and launches with the airy broken beats and garage flecked sounds of 'Chasing Shadows' before exploring cavernous downbeat on 'If You Dare', warped bass bangers on 'Fast Lane' and chunky ambient on 'Cosmological Horizon Entropy.' These are just some of the highlights amongst many.
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Review: Fiesta Soundsystem once again asserts himself at electronic music's top table with this dexterous new offering on the Of Paradise label. The warped synths and jumping bass of 'Pulse Fiesta' open in visceral fashion. It's a big, booming cut for lively dance floor workouts. The subtle arrival of an acidic, turbocharged synth line adds fuel to the jungle breaks of 'Acid Tool' that will ensure it cannot fail to go off, then 'Not To Be (Rude)' blows minds with its dense jungle drums and percussion and lithe synth work. Closer 'The Slip' is a dark, face screwing and brain-melting monster.
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Review: Futuristic dancehall vibes galore: Montreal's SIM makes his debut on Nervous Horizon with five superb electronic instrumentals. All digging deep into the bashment and moombah sound, but wrapped up in electro and techno armour, the energy and weight behind each track sits somewhere right the centre of rave and soundsystem culture. Visceral, forthright and super physical, all focus is fixed on those bumping kicks and SIM's expert palette of sounds and textures. There are very few styles of bass or tech music that these wouldn't fit in.
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Review: Klaus returns to his own Tanum Records label with a couple more of his sublime and signature sounds. As always these are serious heady sounds that encourage you to swim in an expansive ocean of ambient design and weighty bass. 'Sabz' kicks off with icy percussion and scurrying synth sounds underpinned by vast sub bass. It's the hollowed out shell of a long-forgotten garage tune and then on the flip 'Qua' layers up sci-fi sound designs, floaty-light pads and vocal apparitions with rubbery bass.
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Review: Jimmy Edgar has been an ever present talent over the last decade. The Detroit artist has a range of styles in his arsenal and explores many of them on the s new album on Innovative Leisure, which is where his J-E-T-S project with Machine Drum also found a home. Recorded over the past few years in multiple cities including Atlanta, Detroit, and, of course, L.A., Cheetah Blend draws on the sounds of those cities as well as his love of rap and is packed with fresh perspective and magical sound design. West Coast boogie, glitchy beats, experimental pop, it all features and it all bangs.
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Review: Sneaker Social Club always does a brilliant job of throwing back to the old school without ever falling into pastiche. This time round, London's J Shadow is the man on the buttons after plenty of solid outings on the likes of Nous Disques, Dream Eater and Collection Artaud. He splices and dices sweet vocal samples, break beats and rugged analogue textures into visceral tracks with a heart of darkness. 'Fade' is a bittersweet post-jungle tune that tugs at the heart strings. 'Diffraction' is a laser lit, choppy and bass heavy rhythm to get that brain melted and 'Atlantis' is a late night roller you'd expect to hear down the airwaves of a pirate radio station.
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Review: This is a seance EP to result from the extended mixtape that German genre breakers Modeselektor recently put out. Social Distancing once again shows off the duo's ability to mix up hip-hop and rave sounds. It is a tune with bubbling synth work and rave stabs, but proper rapped vocals from a female with plenty of attitude. Add in booming bass and trap influenced hits and you have a real winner. The remix from Little Snake goes raw and stripped back, FJAAK go for a blistering warehouse techno banger, Ad Lip layers up bass and Richard Devine closes out with a mad a cappella.
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Review: It's always nice to stumble across an EP that tries to do things differently and defy easy categorization. That's exactly what's on offer from this EP from debutant D3U5E, whose only previously outing was a contribution to Corrupt Data's Hardcore Will Never Die compilation. On side A, he first fuses elements of dubstep, elecro and psychedelic electronica on the fabulous 'Free Mars', before unveiling an off-kilter breakbeat/electro cut that's powered forwards by 8-bit electronics and gargantuan sub-bass. Over on the flip he joins forces with Gav on two tracks: the ghostly, ambient techno influenced dubstep of 'Of The Gods' and the more raw, mind-mangling UK bass heaviness of 'Mutant'.
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DJ Autumn's Banoffee Pies label is one of the most hyped out there. Each release sells out - usually on pre sales alone - and very much defines the sharp end of the current garage sound. Cassius Select is up now with another fusion of UK sounds from final beats to skeletal garage. 'Born To Defence' is a rhythmically prickly tune with cloning hits and bell sounds and 'Honda Civic' is all inner city menace and unsettling bass hits. 'Sicko Groove' churns up a load of different hits, clatters, smears and smudges into a real melon twister and 'Guia Circuit' brings the filth.
DJ Autumn's Banoffee Pies label is one of the most hyped out there. Each release sells out - usually on pre sales alone - and very much defines the sharp end of the current garage sound. Cassius Select is up now with another fusion of UK sounds from final beats to skeletal garage. 'Born To Defence' is a rhythmically prickly tune with cloning hits and bell sounds and 'Honda Civic' is all inner city menace and unsettling bass hits. 'Sicko Groove' churns up a load of different hits, clatters, smears and smudges into a real melon twister and 'Guia Circuit' brings the filth.
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Review: Big Science co-honcho, Female:Pressure member and renowned broadcaster and DJ in France, NVST lets loose on Serious Trouble with her debut EP - 'Stop Violence Motivate Violence'. Two originals, one remix, all dark matter; NVST's title track comes with the subtitle Ridinglikeyoustoleit and bubbles like a subterranean juke-rave-garage beast. Elsewhere Big Trouble's Benedikt Frey gets murky on the remix as he pitches everything down into a disarming, stern dancefloor sludge. Finally 'Breakos Blancos' shuts things down with another slo-mo shatter-fest with classic 45 King breaks fracturing and firing all over the place. Fighting talk.
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Review: Standby for a killer album or pure bass and breaks badness from Etch. He says this record is inspired by his favourite iconic horror characters like Buffalo Bill, Leatherface, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers. It also has tracks that take inspiration from his favourite band The Doors and 1995 film Strange Days. As a result the music if often cold and stark, hostile and confrontational and all the was intentional from Etch. "The tracks have been produced in an uncertain and quite downcast period of time for me," he says. Rather than being a depressive listen, though, there is charm in the darkness that cannot fail to get you locked in and moving.
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Review: London based Henry Greenleaf goes deeper into exploration of his unique stylistic template on Taking First, for local imprint Par Avion. This follows up 2018's Fold Together, as well as a slew of releases on ARTS, Glasstalk and Wellstreet Records. From the off-kilter dub of the title track, and the slow burning greyscale techno of 'Rumble' on the A side, to 'NOFM' which kicks off the flip with its contorted take on dub techno, and closing it out with the enchanting polyrhythmic complexity of 'Stam'.
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