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Review: Over the last few years Methlab have secured a highly respected position in drum & bass as a management company, event promoter and hub for all things techy and uncompromised. Here we find them hooking up with Vegas's Bad Taste imprint for a series of on-point, club-focused 12"s featuring some of the most exciting names in the neuro movement. Highlights include the ghostly vocal cries on MachineCode's "Evacuation" and the fuzzy distorted grit of Signs' "Less Is More". The Methlab takeover continues...

Review: Zero T and Fierce continue their collaborative assault with two more reminders of proper, authentic, innovative drum & bass. "Expose" is a deep breath stepper, all lean, naked but shrouded in mystery. "Clandestine" takes us deep inside the drums as precision-tuned cymbals splash and shimmer while the kicks and snares punch with crisp energy. Watch out as the track unfolds... There's a lot going on in the subs and pads too. True craft.

Review: Tempa drop another single from Skream's 2010 all conquering Outside The Box album in the shape of the awesome "Where You Should Be". Whilst the track features the vocal talents of Sam Frank, they are so heavily subjected to vocoder that his lyrics meld into the spiralling array of keyboard hooks and twilight tinged arpeggiated synth lines - with suitably woozy results. On the flip Digital Soundboy boss and all round legend Shy FX drops a killer remix which starts with the Mtume "Juicy" riddim before switching to more familiar rolling junglist pressure ably assisted by some sweet additional female vocals. Watch out for that half time drop! Also look out for a second all remix twelve with a suitably heavyweight line up.

Review: For the latest volume in its ongoing Rollers mix series, V Recordings offshoot Chronic has asked experienced Brazilian DJ/producer L-Side to handle mixing duties. He naturally does a fine job, working his way through 21 tracks from such rising talents as Jaybee, Command Strange, Serum, Fiaco and Euphorics. The mix is naturally slick, with L-Side selecting cuts that tend towards the spacey and rolling, whilst retaining the punchy D&B breaks and cyber-sonic sub-bass that Chronic is renowned for. Highlights and plentiful, and include the revivalist jungle riddims of "Meditate" by Need For Mirrors, the bruising sub-bass and hip-hop vocal snatches of L-Side's "Soundclash", and the unstoppable weightiness of Command Strange's "Unlimited Bass".

Review: Level 2 and DJ Chap continue to demolish the dance with their currently-spotless Alibi project; "Trunk" is a conga-weaving roller with all the hallmark ingredients of a timeless classic heads-down roller; tight percussion, creeping basses and subtle bars from Coppa, everything about it is deep, dark and dangerous. "No Escape", featuring fellow Sao Paulo artist Nitri, is more of a late night fast lane stepper. Laced with techy textures but driven by a precision groove break and heaps of space, it's a smack back to the darker sounds of the early 2000s before everything went hyper. Extremely well played.

Review: Cooking up a storm since 2009: for Ingredients' 50th feast they've recruited a collection of chefs old and new. Spirit cooks the starters. A life-long friend of the label since its earliest releases, his "Interstate" tickles the tastebuds with a pan-fried reese and peppered snare shots. Response and his brother Pilskin cook up a hearty main; detuned synths served on a bed of crushed drums and an old school reduction and a light spraying of jungle foam. Finally the bossman Clive teams up with Response for a bitter sweet desert with burnt crumb bass gloom and devilled drum roll pastries. Sonically scrumptious.