Some quickies I think



The Bug - Pressure



Apparently the next big thing in underground dance music is going to be dancehall, it's probably the most modern form of reggae unless you count how it was kind of hijacked by jungle... Anyway, who is The Bug? Well he's Kevin Martin, half of Techno Animal, purveyor of fine compilations (Macro Dub Infection and Isolationism spring to mind), and all round bass terrorist. This CD finds him collaborating with a host of vocalists including the mighty Toastie Taylor, and believe it or not Daddy Freddy (fastest rapper in the world apparently), Martin brings along the beats and the bass, it's kind of traditional in the way that he doesn't stray to far from the traditional dancehall rythmn, but the samples have a Techno Animal feel from them and pretty much every track has a similarly wonderful feeling of dread (or should that be dred) that will be familiar to people who know his work. It's the sort of thing I thrive on. Once again though I have a feeling this release will be ignored by alot of people, which in my opinion is a crime! It is a really really good CD.



Tes - x2



I'm going to steal from another review I heard of this now: Jay-Z could learn a lot from this lad. 12 tracks and it's just over half an hour long. I like this, it's my sort of hip-hop - slightly off centre, and some of the beats just don't make sense - lovely. It reminds me a bit of some of the anticon stuff I've heard...



Numbers - Death



Confession time, I only bought this CD for the Kid606 remix... yes I am that obssessive. OK, rewind for a minute, who are Numbers? Well In think they are tigerbeats punk band, to be honest I don't know much about them and this remix CD doesn't exactly shed much extra light. There is a fairly funny Gold Chains mix, which starts with about a minutes worth of fucking around followed by a bit of disco and nicely rounded up with some hardcore punk shouting; the Kid606 remix sounds quite subdued next to what I'm used to, the rest of the CD is...well, OK... nothing special although I do like the Zeigenbock Kopf mix - they remix the same song as the Kid, but make it much more scary and perverted.



Soundmurder - Wired for Sound



This is very old skool jungle - I'm quite fond of it, but maybe it could of done with a bit more variety?