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Phuturelabs – Experiment 19 on Radio Magnetic

The Ustream journey continues as what has been referred to as the Paul Hardcastle experiment goes out live and is also recorded for some anytime listening action. The 19th features DnB to techno converts Trevino & Endian, new Glasgow label High Sheen and a dub monster from the Dubmonger. We also return to old favourites [...]

Bass Clef – Reeling Skullways

While Bass Clef is an artist that’s long been associated with the dubstep scene, his “Rollercoasters of the Heart” 12 for Punch Drunk hinted at more 4/4 based experimentations and now he’s delivered a long player for the label that takes the progression a step further. Pressing play on “Reeling Skullways” leads you to being [...]

Production Unit – Broken20.2 (45 version) – free download

We reviewed Production Unit’s brilliant “ICU Tracks EP” last week and while the bleeps are still rattling around our head, he kindly sent this bonus track over for us to pass on. Recorded during the same sessions as the EP, it moves slightly away from the theme but not completely and further more whets the [...]

Phuturelabs – Session Five – Apr 12

For Session Five we start to nail down the Ustream flow with this 50 minute outing. Mixing up the genres with house, acid, techno and tech house the flow is right and the mixing is tight as one of our best live Sessions to date unfolds. Inner City, Boddika, Kerri Chandler, Carl Craig and more [...]

Slam – Azure (Carl Craig remix)

Last year saw a whole host of Slam and Soma material put through the remix ringer in celebration of 20 years of Soma but it seems they may have been saving the best till last. Slam’s classic “Azure” has already seen remixes over the years from Radio Slave and The Black Dog but this brilliant [...]

Lazy Sundays: Django Django – Skies Over Cairo (Adrian Sherwood On U Sound Dub)

The debut album from Django Django has been quite rightly picking up plaudits left, right and centre but they’re not a band you’d expect to find normally within these electronically packed pages. Throw in On-U Sound System boss and all round dub hero Adrian Sherwood however and what you have in your hands is the [...]

Inner City – Praise (The Future Sound Of London Conceptual)

While the likes of “Good Life” and “Big Fun” always pop up when people talk about Inner City classics, for me it was the slightly later early 90s material that sent my boat a-floating. Tunes like “Hallelujah” and “Praise” were firm favourites on my turntables and still are to this day. This period also saw [...]

Production Unit – ICU Tracks

Production Unit has been a busy boy of late, fresh from his “Bridge EP” for our Phuturelabs imprint he’s just about to release the “ICU Tracks EP” for Broken20 and there’s news of an album in the pipeline for the label also. For those unfamiliar with the story behind the bleeps contained within, it’s a [...]

Deadbeat & Danuel Tate – Lazy Jane

German producer Deadbeat has been responsible for some amazing dub driven electronica over the years and his latest outing sees him team up with Cobblestone Jazz’s Danuel Tate for his own BLKRTZ imprint. The original sees Tate’s vocodered vox draped over a slab of dub rich in reverbs and ethereal echoes but the real treat [...]

Dubmonger – Experiments In Dub

Glasgow producer Morphy has long been a favourite of ours here at the Labs and the announcement of his new Dubmonger project quickly made us sit up and take notice. Shaking off the shackles of genre restrictions, the first EP from the project entitled “Experiments in Dub” sees the producer move around the tempos freely [...]