Browse by Label: RAG & BONE (UK)

Artist:	NOYEAHNO
Title:	The Babylon-don EP
Label:	RAG & BONE (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	TOTTER 004EP

"Erupting from one of the freshest scenes in the last few years, UK garage renamed dubstep, owing to an evolution toward a darker more techy production edge, the leading lights have been a few small labels coming outta South London, and at the forefront is the Rag and Bone label. Totter 4 drops hard and heavy on the deck, kicking off with the aptly named 'Brixton Bells'. Suitably dark, the beats open the 12" with sharp clanging drums creating a steppers rhythm, these build up until the destructive bassline drops and completely mashes it up, this is how you rock a floor. Harking back to the hardcore days of the early '90s with Hoover sounds and a direct, hedonistic disregard for subtlety, NoYeahNo crafts amazingly simple yet rocking tracks backed by heavy sounds, searing synths, Brixton bells and some classic little vocal samples."

Artist:	WARLOCK
Title:	Full Tilt
Label:	RAG & BONE (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	TOTTER 010EP

"There's something immediately right about Warlock's readiness to mash together dubstep, old hardcore sensibilities and plain old fashioned bass rinsing. 'Full Tilt' is an irrepressible shocka, samba-dubstep would be our genre for it, if pushed, but actually it doesn't matter when the abandon is as wild as this. Dropping the needle on the record instigates a drop through a liftshaft, the break is punctuated with huge bata style Brazilian drums, whoops of ecstasy inna the dance, ride cymbals for the true steppers and militant New York guerilla drums, all pitched against drizzly ghost town grime stabs. Favela grime may or may not be the next big thing, but Warlock is sure to mash up any hall with this fearsome beast of a tune -- addictive stuff... simply massive overload material, hardcore low end science."

Artist:	BLACK MASS PLASTICS
Title:	Four Aces EP
Label:	RAG & BONE (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	TOTTER 011EP

"Blackmass Plastics returns for his second release on Rag & Bone. A fantastic follow-up exploring break-step and dub-step territories with a twisted edge. He first came to prominence working with the Dead Silence Collective in the mid 90's. Producing a good stack of celebrated electro and d&b tracks for their Audio Illusion imprint alongside cohorts Dexorcist and Bass Junkie. Blackmass is also the founder of 2 labels. Thorn Industries -- a cult underground label dedicated to alternative industrial electronics. And Dirty Needles currently receiving good props from those on both the dub-step and electro scenes."

Artist:	WARLOCK
Title:	Just a Face in the Street EP
Label:	RAG & BONE (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	TOTTER 012EP

"The return of the excellent Warlock : Oil and gak spattered machine rhythms are salvaged from the hardcore scrap-yard and battered into warehouse smashing rudeboy assaults on 'Just a Face In the Street,' raving breaks are spot welded onto the attitude and sound design of Einsturzende Neubauten, with the same ideas utilized on 'Ghost Dog.' 'Cellar Door' drops the tempo to a Saaf London strut down a dark alley of controlled weirdness style electro. Consistently tough tackle from south of the river...Killer!"

Artist:	FZV
Title:	Assimilator/Leviathan
Label:	RAG & BONE (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	TOTTER 013EP

"Shedding his electronic skin like a snake, FZV steps it up several gears on the latest jammy from Rag and Bone. Brutal industrial break-step, 'Assimilator' is shot through with exterminating soundsystem stabs and schizoid fills -- this is one definitely not for the faint of heart, and yet shows the natural progression of many electronica artists into a tougher, more uncompromising dancefloor-ready stance these days. Flip for a murked out remix of 'Leviathan' by Blackmass Plastics, adding more definition to the drums, slasher film washes and a killer bassed-out jump-up attitude."

Artist:	WARLOCK
Title:	Window Smasher
Label:	RAG & BONE (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	TOTTER 015EP

"The first offering this year from Rag & Bone's very own Warlock. Two of the three tracks explore his unique turbulent breakbeat style that has surfaced on many earlier releases for the label as well as his output on Dirty Needles. 'Window Smasher,' the lead track takes on the essence of late nineties drum & bass in the vein of DJ Die or Krust but reworks it into a breakstep mover. Chopped and filtered breaks combine with a bassline of speaker shaking proportions while an array of sci-fi synths and ghostly FX complete this very full picture. Definitely one for the rewind crew. 'Pistols At Dawn' harnesses several more rattling breaks and retro loops, but heads in an altogether different direction. Nervously switching and jittering from beat to break, 'Pistols At Dawn' is somehow held together by a hammering square wave bass, but you're still rendered unsure of quite what's gonna happen next."

Artist:	AARON SPECTRE
Title:	Say More Fire
Label:	RAG & BONE (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	TOTTER 016EP

"It seems that Rag & Bone is becoming the new home for producers of harder edged music who are successfully turning their hands to beats and bass around the 140bpm mark. Following in the footsteps of the likes of FZV and Drop The Lime, Aaron Spectre adds another quality string to his bow and lands us with two promising monster cuts. 'Say More Fire' comes crashing in as the absolute floor filler. A filtered intro gives way to a smooth rolling beat with a dancehall swing, akin to drum & bass but only slower, a bit like Search and Destroy. Steadily building up to a swirl of eerie synths, delayed bleeps and a barrage of vocal stabs, the scene is set for a killer drop. Then the riot ensues. A singed bassline raises the roof and charred breaks intersperse and punctuate this slab of dancefloor frenzy. 'Music Is The Weapon' works from the same sketch but is sleeker, more sophisticated. Reminiscent of early Slaughter Mob tracks, only tougher. It builds to a crescendo of glitchcore edits on the break before dropping back to the groove for the final rollout."

Artist:	BLACKMASS PLASTICS
Title:	Mutate To Survive EP
Label:	RAG & BONE (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	TOTTER 019EP

"The mighty Blackmass Plastics returns with an exceptional action packed 4-tracker that fuses heavy 4/4 bassline with dirty electroid breakiness. It's been a while since we've heard something uptempo from the man who creates more tunes per hour than anybody else, but then he has been busy knocking out some excellently twisted dubstep tracks under his own moniker as well as Crooked One. But, it's been well worth the wait. Tune smith and man of the moment Kanji Kinetic (Trouble On Bass, Rag & Bone, Coin Operated) gets enlisted for remix duty and serves up an epic remix of 'Future Past' complete with old skool references and contemporary bassline flavas. The Mutate To Survive EP will please many ears. Blackmass Plastics pedigree is second to none. Already responsible for two well received EPs on Rag & Bone, he has also been a regular contributor to the musical output of Combat Recordings, both as artist and remixer. This has seen him rework the likes of Scorn, King Cannibal, Cursor Minor, Scanone and Dexorcist. Releases have also surfaced on the French label SMB, Scanone's Yellow Machines, Dead Silence's label Audio Illusion, Digital Distortionz and Bow Wow. And somehow he still finds time to run the 'true to the core' labels Dirty Needles and Thorn Industries."

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Artist:	KING CANNIBAL
Title:	Call Me Mr. Cold Blooded/Hundred Eyes Closed
Label:	RAG & BONE (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	TOTTER 017EP