Drum & Bass

Skream – Epic Last Song

by Andy Ball July 17, 2010

Skream, the co founder of Magnetic Man, who shot to fame with his remix of La Roux’s In for the Kill, returns with his latest offering of twisted Dubstep meets Drum & Bass: The Epic Last Song. Skreams second album is set to drop at the end of July, and is called “Outside The [...]

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Portsmouth Hospitality @ The Pyramids – Review

by Mickey B A June 26, 2010

Portsmouth Promoters Breakneck and UpDnB butted heads like two electronically charged battering rams, causing a phenomenal collision of musical supremacy that exploded from The Pyramids Centre at Southsea in the form of forerunner of the Drum & Bass world, Hospitality.
Half a mile down the seafront and the the energy brimming from The Pyramids is [...]

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Daimyo – Venom – The Twisted Future Sound Of London

by Mickey B A June 24, 2010

Meshing together a dirty concoction of all things grim does not always result in darkness as London Producer Daimyo manages to prove with his latest release.
Daimyo has been one of my keep an eye on talents for sometime now, steadily grafting away and experimenting with futuristic sound, attempting to carve a new tunnel of [...]

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The Big Chill Festival Preview

by Mickey B A June 14, 2010

Nestled snugly in the Herefordshire hills of The Midlands chill zone and flooding the momentous structure of Eastnor Castle with a certain distinctive downbeat energy, The Big Chill Festival encapsulates an invigorating and refreshing vibe, lashing the countryside meadows with powerful splatters of memorizing musical delicacies.
This may be the year to swerve the forerunners of [...]

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Hospitality – Splash Landing in Southern Waters!

by Mickey B A May 20, 2010

Southerners beware! Two of Portsmouth’s finest heavyweights are working in tandem and are hell bent on unleashing a furious concoction of Drum & Bass and Dubstep quite capable of encapsulating the whole south coast in a high octane, electronic frenzy.
Long-time and well respected promoters, Breakneck (BRKNK) ran by Stuart ‘SDM’ Mullen and Owain Harris, [...]

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Eclectricity Present: Birmingham Electric Carnival 2010 – Review

by Mickey B A May 14, 2010

The train pulls in to New Street Station, the doors fling open and the carriage is flooded with a warm and fuzzy aroma that tempts the passengers on to the platform. Electric Carnival had arrived, and with it, a tingling sensation, rarely felt, surrounds Birmingham. The feeling quickly intensifies as the destination appears in sight. [...]

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Sick Music Vol 2

by Mickey B A April 30, 2010

With a lot of people still getting over a serious slap of shell shock left by Hospital records 2009 compilation ‘Sick Music’, the label are set to shatter even more of our innocent ear drums with their second instalment to the series, craftily entitled ‘Sick Music 2′.
Keeping in tone and rhythm to volume one, the [...]

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Netsky – Belgian Liquid Meets London Elecktricity

by Mickey B A February 19, 2010

Through 2008 and 2009 there can’t have been many electronic music disciples that have not been totally captivated and blown away by the rise and rise of Dubstep, but while this overwhelming bass driven cloud of filth has been looming over head devouring our souls, and spitting them out in a great mass of wobbling [...]

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