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HDB 064EP
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"Morgan Zarate's second release for Hyperdub is a bold and unexpected move for him. With Broken Heart Collector he's made some highly contagious dubstep pop, featuring rising singer/songwriter/producer Stevie Neale on vocals."
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HDB 015LP
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Double LP version. "Sebenza shares a palette of sounds, but each track stretches those sources into different templates, each custom built with the MC's flow and topic in mind, slowed down and sped up where needed. The three MC's styles differ from each other dramatically. Okmalumkoolkat shifts schizophrenically through different characters; he's an Afro-futurist tech nerd on 'Zulu Compurar,' a wired gangster on 'International Pansula,' and on 'Spitting Cobra,' a shape shifting bad man. Ruffest mix shout outs to the thugs on 'Hustla,' boast their uniqueness on 'Nothing Like Us,' bring the party on 'Thatha' and get love sick on 'Uthando Lwakho.' On 'Limb' Spoek Mathambo's rhymes dissolve into the rhythm like a holographic James Brown, while 'Work' answers Okmalumkoolkat's 'Sebenza' with instructional cheer-leading over clicking beats. Sebenza is a joyful listen, refreshing in its disregard for musical and verbal cliché. It brings to attention a handful of the awesome talent of South Africa's young generation of MCs over the finest productions of South London."
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HDB 065EP
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"As a prelude to his second album for Hyperdub, 'Dark Crawler' sees Terror Danjah drop punchy, manic beats and claustrophobic stabs on this bloodthirsty grime banger, with grime's original London Warlord Riko Dan spitting patois menace of the kind that might make MI5 raise their terrorist threat levels. On the B side is the bubbler 'Fruit Punch', Terror's energetic, 8bar take on funky, which - by contrast - adds some fun to the militant proceedings. With a tight, rolling drum tattoo tearing across the mix, and a tropical melody sharing space with a bulldozer of sub-bass, it's a case of opposites attract."
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HDB 010CD
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"DVA is a natural maverick, a one man spaceship, who on Pretty Ugly shows off an uncanny ability to create urban pop and dance that's full of rich musicality and unusual textures and ideas. Like all the most exciting pop and dance music producers through the generations he has a real flair for looking from the outside in and creating his own unique colour filled 3D sound, with a knack of tethering off-key ideas to good songwriting and pop formats. He's a producer that has come through grime and then uk funky but he's always pulled the blueprints out of shape, messing with different time signatures and syncopations, unusual speeds and strange synths, upsetting vocalists and creating music that doesn't easily slot into the format for raves. Hyperdub saw this maverick nature as a blessing, and so he's gone into the studio and done what he needs to make the music he wants."
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HDB 062EP
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"Ill Blu return to Hyperdub for their second single with 'Clapper', which contrasts deceptively swinging claps and funky but martial drums with crazy pitched up and down synth stabs and shrieks that sound like psychotically angry birds. On the flip, West Chicago's juke and footwork veteran Traxman takes the bpm up to 160 with his energetic mix, which takes the mood darker, switching from 4 / 4 kicks to 808 electro claps, with jittery punched-in stabs giving the track a nervous energy."
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HDB 061EP
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"All Nite EP is the young Mancunian Walton's second set on Hyperdub. Title cut 'All Nite' kicks it off with warm plucked strings, diva moans and lazer-like synths stretched to the point of anticipation over cracking grime handclaps and bass drums, until the track drops into a blocky bass line playing hide and seek with low arpeggios that spiral in and out of the mix, over a giant pounding metallic kick drum before layering on the warmth again. 'Mallet' is driving and darker, building detuned, bell-like tones over a 4/4 beat accented by breaks and fills and gaps, dropping into a big bass line and syncopations that disrupt the beat and bring the drama. 'Kush' is different again, taking the pace down with low end, synth hip hop with glassy chords, running over woozy pitch shifting Rhodes chords fed through a layer of crackly gauze."
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HDB 058EP
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"Terror Danjah's first Hyperdub single of 2011 is an amazing coup, pulling out of the archive a near-perfect collaboration with singer Meleka, where Terror tempers his grimey production, veering uncharacteristically towards featherlight lushness, while lacing Meleka's sensuous, pitched charisma with a deceptively vicious sub. Terror's crisp, asymmetric bed of stuttering drums remind us of a time gone by when Timbaland's falter-funk R&B rhythm programming was an inspiration. 'Morph 2' featuring D.O.K. is the yang to 'U Make Me Feel's yin, drawing gruff, serious strings through hall of mirrors micro-edits, dragging the riff backwards, punctuating it with gremlin chuckles and 'woo's and running the pattern against a tense bleepy melody. It's a dark and vertiginous rush with all the anger of grime at it's ferocious peak."
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HDB 056EP
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"Producer and singer Cooly G returns after a lengthy release hiatus with a new single for Hyperdub that's a taste of her seriously good forthcoming debut album Playing Me, due early 2012. These two tracks are especially chosen for their dancefloor power and suitability, but showcase how her singular style has developed into something truly special."
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HDB 057EP
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"Scratcha DVA , producer, DJ and host of Rinse FM's flagship Breakfast Show, readies his third 12" for Hyperdub; two incredible songs that showcase some of the breadth of his talent from his Hyperdub debut album Pretty Ugly."
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HYP 010EP
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"'Otherman' backed with 'Love Is The Drug' is the lead single from Kode9 And The Spaceape's second long player Black Sun. Coming from oblique angles, these two songs introduce the breadth of the album. 'Otherman' opens with a sombre, arpeggiated march built from wavering analogue synth drones, lulling the listener until Spaceape's cracked communique interrupts the flow with downtrodden descriptions, wrapped around lop-sided rhythms. Sombre, flatline funk."
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HDB 049EP
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"Funkystepz are a collective of house producers from North London, with a show on Rinse FM and a string of self-released underground hits under their belts. They're definitely some of the producers to watch out for this year. After a period of trial and testing on dubplate by DJs like Kode9 and Marcus Nasty, this first release for Hyperdub doesn't mess about. 'Fuller' is a dancefloor destroyer of a very British vintage. Hard without being rigid, with a cold, elastic sense of melody that bounces and snaps around the midrange between the bass and snares. Tempered by an occasional organ stab, it's one of those tracks that will lively up any club straight away, doing away with the forced euphoria of a lot of contemporary dance music, and instead honing the harder-to-master skill of energetic intensity and building anticipation. 'Hurricane Riddim' takes the listener through a number of contrasting moods simply but effectively. Opening with heavy orchestral stabs and military snares reminiscent of classic grime, the addition of a complicated, snaking bassline gives the track a jump up feel, and the eight-bar aggression gives way to sections of orchestral calm and a sad but bouncy piano melody."
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HDB 048EP
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"The fourth and final EP taken from Terror Danjah's Undeniable CD opens with the amazing 'Leave Me Alone' featuring Terror's old vocal spar Bruza. This time it's different though - instead of his usual cockney mateyness, Bruza's reflecting on his bad mood. 'All I Wanna Do' is the album's densest track, featuring East End singer / songwriter Lauren Mason, who complements Terror's moody music with a forlorn and angry vocal about a break-up, Terror editing her lines into strange rhythmic shapes which rub against the subtle trap-doors and fills of his accompaniment."
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HDB 045EP
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"Three contrasting cuts from Grime Super Producer Terror Danjah's Hyperdub debut CD Undeniable, housed in a color jacket replicating the album's lush sleeve artwork. The first track, aptly titled 'Grand Opening,' pits Dream Mclean's masterful myth-making lyrics and uber-brags against portentous choral samples and jabbing bass synths. 'Story Ending' contrasts in mood and feeling, opening with lush trance string arrangements and off-beat kicks and scattered snares laced by an R&B vocal, before the track breaks into some seriously warped synths."
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HDB 046EP
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"The second EP taken from Terror Danjah's Hyperdub debut CD Undeniable features three different styled cuts landing for the vinyl lovers. 'Minimal Dub' starts proceedings, switching between half-time and full pelt with stop-start drums and a catchy rubber band-like melody played out in the bass. But it's the unexpected tech breakdown in the middle, and the synth-line that appears on the drop that makes this the dance floor slayer that it's rapidly become. Its growing momentum has already been infecting ears across genres."
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HDB 047EP
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"The third EP taken from Terror Danjah's Undeniable CD kicks off with one of the big surprises of the album, the inimitable genre-traversing 'S.O.S.' with a simple melodic riff played out over drum patterns that shift up in down in rhythm and tempo, grinding to a halt in the middle of the track before starting up again. 'Sonar (Selassi Mix)' is a beatless mix of Terror's classic grime riddim 'Sonar,' where the originals rhythmic fx and melody pulse in and out of the mix creating strange smeared textures as sounds rub against each other."
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HDB 043EP
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"Gold is the new single from Darkstar's debut album North. In contrast to the very popular Aidy's Girl Is A Computer 12", Gold is indicative of Darkstar's current direction as a three piece group."
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HDB 038EP
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"Since her debut EP for Hyperdub early last year, which won accolades and acclaim everywhere from The Guardian to Mixmag to Music Week, Cooly G has become firmly established as an in-demand DJ, producer and remixer, touring the world, and remixing top ten acts. She is also about to launch her own label Dub Organizer, with the first release imminent, and is currently starting work on an album for Hyperdub."
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HDB 036EP
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"This is the debut release on Hyperdub for north London's Ill Blu, one of Funky's most celebrated and promising production duos, who since forming in 2008 have had a string of underground hits as well as recently putting remixes for the likes of Cheryl Cole and Hot Chip under their belts."
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HDB 037EP
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"Terror Danjah is currently putting the finishing touches to a new album for Hyperdub, while at the same time plotting total club takeover with his own soon-to-be-revealed label. This is his second single on Hyperdub, after the mighty pairing of 'Acid' and 'Pro Plus' earlier in 2010."
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HDB 034EP
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"Two collaborative tracks from Quarta 330 and LV, made when the pair met the day after Hyperdub's fifth anniversary party in November 2009. These tunes exemplify the kind of meeting of minds where the best of both producers comes to the surface, as Quarta 330's 8-bit abstraction and melodic sense contrasts nicely with LV's characteristic lush figures and shuffling rhythms."
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HDB 033EP
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"Idiot is the first in a series of picture sleeve 12"s taken from the album, Contact, Love, Want, Have, backed with remixes from some of Hyperdub's favorite current producers. 'Idiot' is already something of a hit with those who've heard it being played out, combining hard soca drums with lush ecstatic melodic synth harmonies and a driving bass with a strange 8-bit melody that stumbles and trips around the rhythm. It's completely alien at first, but potent enough to stick in your ears until you might catch yourself humming the refrain when you least expect it. A unique and fantastic combination of compelling contemporary sounds."
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HDB 030EP
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"Rinse FM's breakfast show host, DVA is a producer with a unique take on the UK Funky bug, blending the stiff 8-bar funk of grime with a super-supple rhythmic sensibility, sewing neon colours with a laid back precision into his tracks."
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HDB 031EP
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"Hyperdub has long been a fan of grime don Terror Danjah's razor sharp productions, his unparalleled, skittering rhythm science, deadly riffs, brilliant technicolour synth squiggles, 'gremlin cackle' signature and general ear for a catchy tune. On this first EP for the label, he showcases two strains of his many skills."
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