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TOTTER 019EP
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"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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TOTTER 015EP
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"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."
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TOTTER 013EP
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"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."
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TOTTER 012EP
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"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!"
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