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TEMPA 112EP
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Manchester native Alex Coulton has nurtured a reputation for creating sub-heavy rollers thanks to 12"s for the likes of Black Acre, Livity Sound and Bloc. With Gamma Ray Burst, the next in his series of releases on London low-end specialists Tempa, Coulton consolidates his sound to deliver some of the most sparse, rhythmic work of his career. With the record's title track, Coulton weaves from hard-hitting kicks, through to dizzying tribal polyrhythms, the whole time maintaining a minimal, space driven atmosphere that remains omnipresent throughout the track's most intense moments. "Ground Zero" revels in its spaciousness, allowing reverb to flood into the negative space between flashes of heavyweight techno percussion and saturated ripples of synth while the pulsating kicks that underpin "Alpha Decay" are punctuated with bleak, discordant bells, rhythmic bass hits and hypnotic filtered percussion. Showing his diverse abilities, "Phase Two" is an exercise in measured restraint, as a cacophony of clicks and hisses come together to disorientate before forming a driving rhythm section leading into the fog-tinged "Ascent" where Coulton maximizes his expansive elements. Coulton closes with the steady flowing, brighter-hued melodic work of "Distant Resonance". Alex Coulton has created a masterful collection of experimental tech-focused electronica that bewilders, intrigues and will draw the listener in with each play.
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TEMPA 111EP
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Each 12" on Tempa from Youngsta has always explored new and different sound palettes for him and this time is no different. Working with a new partner, Cimm, their unique take on music at 140bpm is the result. The 12" leads off with "Split Minds" a combination of distorted 808's and sub bass, and nimble percussion work fuels the track's half-time stomp. The minimal "Redshift" focuses on atmospherics and trickles hints of melodies. Building slowly over waves of sub bass, vocal snippets weave in-and-out of the track creating a sense of space and clarity.
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TEMPA 110EP
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Appleblim presents Minus Degree on Tempa. The first track, "Minus Degree," is a beat-less affair of sparse soundscapes and atmospheres. Full of tension, you will be swept away by the waves of synths and sub bass. "Move Them" is more traditional Appleblim -- 4x4 and dub techno chords build a sense of momentum over the space of seven minutes. "Twist It Down" rounds out the EP with a subtle roller. Broken drum patterns and bright synths help in stripping away some of the darker undertones prevalent in the previous tracks.
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TEMPA 109EP
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Markee Ledge presents Underground Railroad, an evocative mid-set 125 bpm shuffler. The title track features vocal snippets from Malcolm X, and the works of prominent anti-slavery campaigner William Lloyd Garrison. On the flip, "Mad" takes an altogether more tech feel - an ever-evolving stereo soundscape of scrapes, bleeps and rushes is anchored by constant bassline pressure, and the syncopated woodblock hits. The EP finishes with the higher energy and more raucous "Dream'" - underpinned by the same bassline pressure as "Mad", the swung hats are the perfect counterpoint to the almost four-to-the-floor tension of the previous two tracks.
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TEMPA 107EP
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Cliques - the collaborative project of Hamish Dixon and George Nicholas - fuse rolling techno momentum with a sound system focus. They present the Dotted EP. Title track "Dotted" sees Cliques take their sparse productions to the limit, focusing on intricate drum programming, an intense bassline and a tightly wound melody. "Untitled" features skittering hats and bassline giving way to a melancholic breakdown. Dro Carey remixes "Dotted" and mutates the melody of the original even further, the broken drum patterns playfully switching up and releasing the tension. Finally, "8th" rounds off the EP with swung drums and murky atmospheres.
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Horsepower Productions and their ever-present head honcho Benny Ill, revered in underground music circles as among the key early innovators of dubstep, return with their much-anticipated fourth album, Crooks, Crime & Corruption. An ambitious and varied work, it finds the group expanding their horizons and broadening their sound palette while maintaining the unparalleled production chops that first made them such a force in the scene. Their pioneering early singles sought to strip UK garage of its slickness, adopting a stripped-down, dubbed-out approach that emphasized roughness and powerful bass. This was music for real heads, not commercial dancefloors. When You Hold Me/Let's Dance launched the seminal Tempa label in 2000, and even the term "dubstep" was first popularized in a 2002 XLR8R cover story about Horsepower. Their 2002 debut album In Fine Style (TEMPA 001CD) stands as one of the finest documents to emerge from the UK underground, while To The Rescue (TEMPA 003CD), which followed in 2004, saw the group play a vital role in shaping the direction of the music they had made possible. Crooks, Crime & Corruption is certainly the most sonically varied and rhythmically diverse Horsepower album yet. If previous Horsepower records were defined in part by a commitment to darkness, then Crooks, Crime & Corruption sees a certain amount of light emerging through the cracks. Just check the summer BBQ vibes of "Bak 2 NY" or the balmy shuffle of "Kuriosity.'" At the other end of the spectrum lie the sticky weed paranoia and industrial clank of "Ruf Justice," all gunfire and sirens over punishing sub-bass. "Good Ole Dayz" and "Justify" -- originally released together as a 12" in 2011 (TEMPA 059EP) -- both appear here in new versions. "Good Ole Dayz" marries dubstep wobble with an explosion of color, while the decidedly psychedelic "Justify" (a collaboration with guitarist Harry Keyworth) falls somewhere between Hawaiian surf and Morricone Western. Immaculately constructed and immaculately realized, Crooks, Crime & Corruption draws from numerous facets of the UK underground and further afield for a compelling, wholly immersive journey. Features Orson on "GBU."
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Double LP version. Each plain, unprinted inner sleeve is wrapped by hand in custom-printed barricade tape created by London design studio Give Up Art, sealing in the discs and making each pressing unique. Horsepower Productions and their ever-present head honcho Benny Ill, revered in underground music circles as among the key early innovators of dubstep, return with their much-anticipated fourth album, Crooks, Crime & Corruption. An ambitious and varied work, it finds the group expanding their horizons and broadening their sound palette while maintaining the unparalleled production chops that first made them such a force in the scene. Their pioneering early singles sought to strip UK garage of its slickness, adopting a stripped-down, dubbed-out approach that emphasized roughness and powerful bass. This was music for real heads, not commercial dancefloors. When You Hold Me/Let's Dance launched the seminal Tempa label in 2000, and even the term "dubstep" was first popularized in a 2002 XLR8R cover story about Horsepower. Their 2002 debut album In Fine Style (TEMPA 001CD) stands as one of the finest documents to emerge from the UK underground, while To The Rescue (TEMPA 003CD), which followed in 2004, saw the group play a vital role in shaping the direction of the music they had made possible. Crooks, Crime & Corruption is certainly the most sonically varied and rhythmically diverse Horsepower album yet. If previous Horsepower records were defined in part by a commitment to darkness, then Crooks, Crime & Corruption sees a certain amount of light emerging through the cracks. Just check the summer BBQ vibes of "Bak 2 NY" or the balmy shuffle of "Kuriosity.'" At the other end of the spectrum lie the sticky weed paranoia and industrial clank of "Ruf Justice," all gunfire and sirens over punishing sub-bass. "Good Ole Dayz" and "Justify" -- originally released together as a 12" in 2011 (TEMPA 059EP) -- both appear here in new versions. "Good Ole Dayz" marries dubstep wobble with an explosion of color, while the decidedly psychedelic "Justify" (a collaboration with guitarist Harry Keyworth) falls somewhere between Hawaiian surf and Morricone Western. Immaculately constructed and immaculately realized, Crooks, Crime & Corruption draws from numerous facets of the UK underground and further afield for a compelling, wholly immersive journey. Features Orson on "GBU."
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TEMPA 106EP
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Regular Tempa contributor Alex Coulton follows two well-received 2015 solo 12"s on the label his 2014 contribution to Tempa Allstars Vol. 7 with two tracks that take influences from house, techno, jungle, dubstep, and beyond. "Ambush" is full-on Alex Coulton -- moody atmospheres, heavy sub-bass, and delicate percussion. The restrained intro soon gives way to hypnotic conga patterns, maintaining momentum through Coulton's taut soundscapes. On "Direction," the shuffling hats, soft pads, and bright melody, are more primed for the dancefloor, with the stuttering beats accelerating to 4/4 as the track progresses.
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TEMPA 108EP
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Limited repress; previously RSD release. For Tempa's maiden Record Store Day release, the label turns to multi-disciplined producer Om Unit, founder of the highly acclaimed Cosmic Bridge label, and presents the first vinyl edition of his ribcage-rattling 170bpm remixes of two heavyweight classics from the Tempa catalog. J:Kenzo's bass bin-worrying half-stepper "Ruffhouse" is re-worked here with Om Unit's usual deft touch, maintaining the original's deep undercurrent of dread and swelling to a dizzying crescendo. With his rolling remix of Nomine's "Blind Man," Om Unit preserves the original's seething sub-bass pressure while using intricate percussion and the plucked string refrain to ratchet up the energy to frenetic levels.
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TEMPA 105EP
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Appleblim and October -- two key figures in the Bristol electronic music scene -- reunite to deliver "Other Side of the Sky." A melodic, cyclical kick drum and sub-bass pattern propels the track's spectral, white-noise hiss forward. Appleblim breaks apart and refixes the track for his remix on the flip, in a style reminiscent of labelmates Horsepower Productions -- all dubbed-out tape echo and amped-up paranoia.
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TEMPA 104EP
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Manchester-based Acre's "Messages" is a chilly, percussive number that melds tempered whacks and thick, heaving bass tones with distant synths. New Zealand newcomer Epoch's brash, menacing stepper "The Ville" is built for peak play. Sydney's Cliques turns in "AUT," an intense, capacious, dubby tool, before London's Fracture follows up his 2015 contribution to FACT's mix series with "Excalibur," an immaculately produced, patient burner rich with razor-sharp percussion. Youngsta & Distance's untitled collaboration harkens back to the heyday of dubstep with its rich, cavernous textures and dramatic, reverberated drum shots before Biome lays out a sparse, sub-heavy groove.
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TEMPA 103EP
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US producer Andrew Howard aka AxH follows his lauded 2014 Tempa debut, Destroy, and releases on Elk Beats and Dubs Alive, with Numbskull. "Numbskull" kicks things off with lively melodies tumbling over driven kicks, dramatic ride pings, and fierce, roaring bass tones before "Gem Tone" melds off-kilter tones over capacious percussion perfect for big room spaces. "Hacker," a brawny collaboration with Toronto-based Gremlinz, shoots off the blocks with mangled feedback signals and sharp, effective rimshots, while dense subs tremble beneath spectral reverberated atmospherics.
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TEMPA 102EP
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With a slew of lauded 12"s on Hype_LTD, Black Acre, Idle Hands, Livity Sound's dnuoS ytiviL, and Bloc, Manchester-born Alex Coulton has successfully branded his own stamp on the tougher strands of UK bass music. Here, "Hand to Hand Combat" kicks things off, packed with pugnacious bass tones and dystopian drones; driven, steely toms and pellucid rimshots scatter across the mix in a high-pressure affair before "Concealed Weapon" demonstrates the adroit management of atmospherics that's propelled Coulton's production path thus far. Dense, throbbing subs form an underbelly while menacing growls intertwine with reverberated claps and snares.
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TEMPA 100LP
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Tempa presents its landmark 100th release, a double-pack of essential classics to mark the occasion. Limited to 500 copies. Founded in London in 2000, Tempa swiftly evolved to become one of the most vital and influential labels in UK dance music. At the epicenter of dubstep as it evolved from a mutant offshoot of garage into its own unique scene and sound, Tempa has fostered many of the genre's best-known names and some of its most powerful. For its 100th release, it marks that legacy by casting an ear back into its rich archives. Two 12"s with represses of a selection of pivotal tracks from Horsepower, Skream, Digital Mystikz, Benga & Coki, DJ Abstract, High Plains Drifter, and SP:MC, which, together, chart the history of dubstep's emergence. Tempa100's first disc gathers together the heady, dark, percussive sounds of the genre's early years, rich in smoky atmosphere. It opens with a track from the very first Tempa 12", the slinkily-robotic freakout of Horsepower Productions' "When You Hold Me," before drifting through DJ Abstract's humid and romantic "Touch," High Plains Drifter's "Sholay (feat. Goldspot Productions) (Epic Mix)," and Digital Mystikz's ultra-stripped-back early roller "Give Jah Glory." The second plate ups the ante with a clutch of dubstep's most iconic dancefloor bruisers -- Skream's seminal "Midnight Request Line," Benga & Coki's anthemic "Night," the cybernetic halfstep of SP:MC's "Trust Nobody," and the dub disorientation of Coki's "Tortured." Just as powerful as when they were first released, the tracks on Tempa100 are both a celebration and a reminder of the label's ten-tons-heavy contribution to UK music history. Designed by long-time collaborator and art director Give Up Art, the packaging contains two unique printed inner sleeves, and includes previously-unpublished photos from the archives of photographer Shaun Bloodworth.
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TEMPA 024LP
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Double LP version. A veteran of UK electronic music operating incognito, Nomine, by the time his debut was released in 2012, had already established the defining hallmarks of his sound -- an atmosphere of mingled dread and blissful calm, pulpy Eastern melodies, and tidal waves of sub-bass. Deep and meditative yet murder on a soundsystem, his tracks were vital firepower for a rejuvenated dubstep scene, and become regular secret weapons in figurehead Youngsta's record bag. This led to a string of 12"s on Tempa with which Nomine refined and expanded his aesthetic, keeping dubstep's bass-'n'-space ethos at the core while pushing far beyond its structural limits. Inside Nomine is the much-anticipated debut album from Nomine. It finds the enigmatic producer travelling beyond his acclaimed, soundsystem-demolishing 12"s to explore the deepest reaches of inner space. A reflection on the power of sound to reshape how we experience reality, it's a remarkable, immersive soundworld of an album -- delicate and contemplative, fleet-footed yet overwhelmingly forceful. Inside Nomine feels like the culmination of these musical voyages. As a former student and lecturer of sound design and advanced music technology, he draws upon a fascination with the psychologically-affecting qualities of sound. Although retaining a sonic kinship with dubstep, Inside Nomine occupies a genuinely self-defined musical space in which oceanic half-step riddims like "Shockwaves" and "Zen Force" collide with the thrillingly-exploratory broken techno of "Stickman" and "Menacer." Elsewhere, he leaves any notions of the dancefloor behind entirely; the eerie voiceover of "Nomine's Ego" coils through free space amid gorgeous harmonies and airlock hiss. At the album's heart is Nomine's astonishing command of space and atmosphere. On "Blind Man" and "Reticent Shadow," he matches simmering martial-arts-movie dialogue with music that bristles with Zen-like discipline and focus, while "84600" and "Hide & Seek" wield silence like a weapon, dropping pinprick melodies and percussion into the echo-chamber and remolding the air around them. The spaghetti-western freakout of "Dark Is the Night," meanwhile, recalls the haunting visual psychedelia of Alejandro Jodorowsky's cult 1970 film El Topo. Finally, the spine-snap drum 'n' bass of closer "Confusion" abruptly jolts the listener back to the club, bruised and elated -- a fitting return to physical reality at the end of an album that takes joy in subverting it at every turn.
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TEMPA 101EP
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Appleblim has somehow remained one of the great unsung artists to emerge from Bristol's late-2000s golden era of producers. His 2010 collaboration with Ramadanman, "Void 23" (AUS 1031EP), remains a club staple; he's mined the deeper shades of house with Komon; and his 2008 collaboration with Peverelist, "Over Here," touches on tightly-woven techno. Here, "Avebury" builds toward its apex before a rude bassline plunges the skittering keys into a deep, measured lull. The record's central track is also its most challenging; "Wandered" offers no kick of any sort, but instead bubbles menacingly under the surface for its ten-minute duration, recalling Actress's more thought-provoking work.
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A veteran of UK electronic music operating incognito, Nomine, by the time his debut was released in 2012, had already established the defining hallmarks of his sound -- an atmosphere of mingled dread and blissful calm, pulpy Eastern melodies, and tidal waves of sub-bass. Deep and meditative yet murder on a soundsystem, his tracks were vital firepower for a rejuvenated dubstep scene, and become regular secret weapons in figurehead Youngsta's record bag. This led to a string of 12"s on Tempa with which Nomine refined and expanded his aesthetic, keeping dubstep's bass-'n'-space ethos at the core while pushing far beyond its structural limits. Inside Nomine is the much-anticipated debut album from Nomine. It finds the enigmatic producer travelling beyond his acclaimed, soundsystem-demolishing 12"s to explore the deepest reaches of inner space. A reflection on the power of sound to reshape how we experience reality, it's a remarkable, immersive soundworld of an album -- delicate and contemplative, fleet-footed yet overwhelmingly forceful. Inside Nomine feels like the culmination of these musical voyages. As a former student and lecturer of sound design and advanced music technology, he draws upon a fascination with the psychologically-affecting qualities of sound. Although retaining a sonic kinship with dubstep, Inside Nomine occupies a genuinely self-defined musical space in which oceanic half-step riddims like "Shockwaves" and "Zen Force" collide with the thrillingly-exploratory broken techno of "Stickman" and "Menacer." Elsewhere, he leaves any notions of the dancefloor behind entirely; the eerie voiceover of "Nomine's Ego" coils through free space amid gorgeous harmonies and airlock hiss. At the album's heart is Nomine's astonishing command of space and atmosphere. On "Blind Man" and "Reticent Shadow," he matches simmering martial-arts-movie dialogue with music that bristles with Zen-like discipline and focus, while "84600" and "Hide & Seek" wield silence like a weapon, dropping pinprick melodies and percussion into the echo-chamber and remolding the air around them. The spaghetti-western freakout of "Dark Is the Night," meanwhile, recalls the haunting visual psychedelia of Alejandro Jodorowsky's cult 1970 film El Topo. Finally, the spine-snap drum 'n' bass of closer "Confusion" abruptly jolts the listener back to the club, bruised and elated -- a fitting return to physical reality at the end of an album that takes joy in subverting it at every turn.
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Blind Man, Nomine's fifth 12" for Tempa, offers his most atmospheric and immersive music to date. The gently plucked strings and trickling water of "Blind Man" summon up a meditative warmth mingled with inescapable creeping anxiety, all underpinned by seething sub-bass. "To the Sky" is a beautiful, vast abyss of a track; Iustina's vocals drift amid reedy drones and environmental sound, in an unlikely nexus between Coil and the rugged sound-system intensity of Digital Mystikz. "Nomine's Robot" is a sleek, broken techno slow-burner with an entire echo chamber's worth of reverberating drums; hypnotic dancefloor manna for the very early hours.
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TEMPA 097EP
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Dubstep firebrand J:Kenzo continues to develop his futuristic, synapse-scrambling minimalism, while remaining deeply rooted in the community-led sound system attitude. "Urban Gorilla" epitomizes that aesthetic, with tough, ruffneck yet dexterous vocals from Ghost crew member Juiceman, famous for his appearance on El-P's 2002 track "Buck & Bury." "Expansion" trips still further into the dark, with its whiplash bolts of sub-bass and eerie, two-note refrain instantly recalling the characteristic immersive, physically powerful sets of scene lynchpin Youngsta. The EP closes with the instrumental version of "Urban Gorilla" recast as "Technoid," which draws out the track's contours in sharp, brusquely metallic relief.
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TEMPA 098EP
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Recall/Wiretap, from Manchester's Alex Coulton, follows his stark, atmospheric contribution to the 2014 compilation Tempa Allstars Vol. 7 (TEMPA 094EP), and furthers his ultra-stripped-back, rhythm-driven aesthetic of techno refracted through a sub-heavy sound-system prism. Hypnotic, sidewinding rhythms, packing intense, percussive energy for peak-time 'floors. "Recall" is a gradually unfurling firestorm of distorted kick drums, reverb, and molten sub-bass, which repeatedly dies away to near-silence before returning with twice the impact. On the flip, "Wiretap" is lighter but no less intense; a whirling assembly of drums, warping bass, and freakily catchy struck melodies that's as tough yet elastic as tensile steel.
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TEMPA 095EP
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The fourth Tempa remix 12" -- following Modeselektor's 2009 remix of Headhunter -- brings together remixes of two of the label's deadliest tracks. On the A-side, label figurehead Youngsta remixes Truth's sinister "Devil's Hands" into a throbbing 4/4 monster -- amping up the chiming melodies and chasms of sub-bass of the original. On the B-side, Truth show off their own remixing skills, bringing even more alien dread to J:Kenzo's already dubbed-out original.
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Proxima's debut album, Alpha, follows on from a string of blistering singles for the label, which found the Dutch producer carving out a stark and synthetic vision of 140bpm club music. Across its 11 tracks, Alpha sharpens his already distinctive aesthetic while significantly broadening in scope. It's a manifesto of sorts, centered firmly around his characteristic, titanium-hard dubstep mutations, yet comfortable taking spaced-out voyages through melody-soaked electronics, freaked-out sci-fi funk and vocal-led songs. Raised in Eindhoven, Proxima, aka Gijs Snik, cut his teeth in drum 'n' bass, with a string of acclaimed 12" releases for labels including Shogun Audio. But it was when he turned his hand to dubstep that he hit upon a fresh seam of inspiration. Following his three singles for Tempa, Alpha gathers Proxima's most fully-realized music to date -- widescreen in sound but packing intense sound system force. Next to the tinny grind that's characterized some of dubstep's harder side in recent years, its tracks are rendered in full 3D, with percussion lines moving in snake-like coils around firestorm distortion, and ice-pick melodies that cut sharply into the foreground. Opener "Prologue" is a deadly dance of glassy shrapnel, its melodies flickering through the mix like early grime blasted into space. It's followed by the frosty expanses of "Trapped," a lean halfstep monolith that ranks as one of his toughest and most minimal tracks so far, and which has been a deadly fixture on dubplate. "Pressurized" finds P Money in frenzied form -- with the London MC's rapid-fire bars cutting through windmilling percussion and grinding beats -- while later on the album DRS' voice is taut and restrained while the chaos of "Smog" erupts around him. Indeed, while Proxima's tracks and stripped-back 12"s are regulars in the record bags of DJs like Youngsta and Icicle, the reference points for Alpha stretch far beyond the dubstep world. Its self-contained vision and frosty evocations of deep space recall the interstellar techno voyages of Detroit pioneers like Jeff Mills, Dopplereffekt and DJ Stringray. And the rhythmic intricacy and steely poise of tracks like "Pressurized" and 170bpm Icicle collaboration "Redshifted" draw upon the electric charge of contemporary drum & bass, recalling both Shogun Audio's wiry funk and the machine soul of dBridge and Exit Records. On thrilling highlight "Gravity," moments of silence are shattered by shredding distortion and drums cutting violently into empty space. Elsewhere, pinpoint technicality is paired with moments of striking emotional openness. "In Vacuo" and "Playing the Arp" pair tough muscle with dazzling lead lines, with the latter evolving to a gorgeous, harmony-led climax. And "Afterwards," featuring the vocals of Dnae, detours into jazzy territory, sounding both futuristic and strangely bucolic. It closes with the woozy "Epilogue," whose blend of super-heated harmony and intricate percussion captures the essence of Alpha, a debut album whose approach is familiar in essence but often startlingly fresh in execution.
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TEMPA 087EP
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Proxima begins the launch of his debut album Alpha with Trapped. Its title track, a lean halfstep monolith, ranks as one of his toughest and most minimal tracks, and has recently been a deadly fixture in the arsenal of the scene's leading DJs. Trapped is the latest in a string of blistering singles for Tempa, which show Proxima carving out a stark and synthetic vision of 140bpm club music. His frosty evocations of deep space evoke Detroit pioneers like Jeff Mills, Dopplereffekt, and DJ Stringray, while his rhythmic intricacy and steely poise recall Shogun Audio, dBridge, and Exit Records.
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TEMPA 094EP
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The first edition since 2010, Tempa Allstars Vol. 7 offers another potent shot of chestplate-shuddering bass, dancefloor pressure and heavyweight atmosphere from rising artists Wen, Innasound, Batu, Perverse, Alex Coulton and AxH. The producers selected for Vol. 7 are making music that crosses tempo boundaries, and is instead bound by a shared atmosphere: deeply rooted and sub-heavy, yet still infused with burning rave energy. The music on Tempa Allstars Vol. 7 reflects that diversity of approach. Innasound, AxH and Perverse all offer fiery, focused takes on the classic dubstep template while Wen, Alex Coulton and Batu draw the same atmosphere of dread into seething techno structures.
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