Editorial Product Review: :'You want bowel-churning mega-bass that shakes the room, demolishes the ceiling, and freaks out the cat?' ask the compilers of this grade-A U.K. techno disc. The curious should answer with an unequivocal, 'Hell, yes.' Sonic slabs from Orbital, the Chemical Brothers, Underworld, Prodigy, Leftfield and the Future Sound of London, among others, add up to a definitive appetizer tray of drum & bass flavors. --Jeff Bateman
Editorial Product Review: :With more big-time backing than any junglist save toothy Goldie, the Roni Size all-stars return with a punchy suite of material that sounds so crossed over it could snap. The big-beat drums continue to push drum & bass toward soulful house; the vocals by MC Dynamite as well as guests Method Man and Zach de la Rocha continue to demand hip-hop respect; and the form is repeated, again and again, over and over, at 180 beats per minute. A funky key lick that might bob and weave in an able DJ's hands ...
Editorial Product Review: :With more big-time backing than any junglist save toothy Goldie, the Roni Size all-stars return with a punchy suite of material that sounds so crossed over it could snap. The big-beat drums continue to push drum & bass toward soulful house; the vocals by MC Dynamite as well as guests Method Man and Zach de la Rocha continue to demand hip-hop respect; and the form is repeated, again and again, over and over, at 180 beats per minute. A funky key lick that might bob and weave in an able DJ's hands ...
Editorial Product Review: :Like the best drum & bass musicians, Photek explores the nuances of the rhythms that most jungle musicians, blinded by dance-floor strobe lights, take for granted. His rarefied electronic tracks rarely overlap more than a handful of discrete sonic elements. On 'The Water Margin,' for example, cetacean burbles bounce amid an extended percussion solo and a lone, vaporous, synthetic woodwind. And that's it. The composerly sense of musical development Photek brings to these skeletal constructions has lent his earliest recordings a reputation as the blueprint of avant-garde drum & bass. Four of ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:DJ Dara, founder of Breakbeat Science and Planet Of The Drums, brings the raw power of his legendary dance floor sets back with 'The Antidote', a blockbuster mix of new and unreleased drum and bass anthems by 16 of the most demanded producers in the world.
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:DJ Dara, founder of Breakbeat Science and Planet Of The Drums, brings the raw power of his legendary dance floor sets back with 'The Antidote', a blockbuster mix of new and unreleased drum and bass anthems by 16 of the most demanded producers in the world.
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:DJ Dara, founder of Breakbeat Science and Planet Of The Drums, brings the raw power of his legendary dance floor sets back with 'The Antidote', a blockbuster mix of new and unreleased drum and bass anthems by 16 of the most demanded producers in the world.
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:DJ Dara, founder of Breakbeat Science and Planet Of The Drums, brings the raw power of his legendary dance floor sets back with 'The Antidote', a blockbuster mix of new and unreleased drum and bass anthems by 16 of the most demanded producers in the world.
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Seven track EP for 1999 from Englishman Tom Jenkinson, the acclaimed avant-garde drum'n'bass artist better known as Squarepusher. Standard jewel case. :For Squarepusher's Tom Jenkinson, music is his playground--albeit a very twisted one. One minute you might find the producer carelessly wrecking beats and pieces like a petulant three-year-old boy (see Music Is Rotted One Note); at others, employing the exacting precision of a manic drill sergeant to drum & bass, he produces what could only be called 'drill and bass.' The unpredictable Jenkinson throws his audience yet another curve ball ...
Small and light enough for a shirt pocket, Samsung's Helix YX-M1 is a one-stop audio entertainment center with an XM radio, a digital music player, and room for 50 hours of tunes, but it comes up short on battery life.
