So Spring has well and truly sprung, the days are getting longer, all across the northern hemisphere winter coats are getting packed away for the year and we breathe sighs of relief that maybe we can wear the nice trainers tomorrow and not wreck them in a slushy puddle. It is to this pleasant hum of vernal optimism that we here at inHabit HQ are pleased to add a few notes in the form of another MOMENTUM release, by way of a monumental four track EP of surgically crafted bangers from one of our favourite Irish producers B-Origin. Brophy (as his friends call him) has been knocking around the Irish DnB scene for some time now, turning heads with an encyclopedic knowledge of the music and a real DJ's ear for a subtle rhythmic element. His ever-growing catalogue of releases are all testaments to the power of reduction, weight, and subtlety, and we are honestly feeling pretty damn smug about the fact that this is some of his best work to date.

“Bottleneck” kicks off the EP with an urgent ramshackle step with a militant Amen fill, plangent bleeps and a soaring pad turning raw claustrophobic energy into a cathedral of wide open space before a familiar sample draws everything back down to earth. You'll be playing this a lot. “Manoeuvre” wreaks havoc on my spell checker, but its urgent rolling subby groove will wreak havoc on any dancefloor too, while title track “Absentis” turns a salty midrange call and response into something celestial via twinkly keys and a huge textured breakdown that keeps the momentum going into an expertly crafted drop. “Rebuild” finishes things off in more ways than one, a ghoulish sequence of gnarly bass tones each one more gruesome than the last over a piledriving subby stepper's groove culminating in the late-game addition of some more of his trademark ice-cold atmospherics.

There you have it, four pieces of weapons-grade dancefloor ammunition, grab them while they're hot, or grab them next year, it's your call, they're loud, they're weighty, they're built to last, and with Heights once again working his mastering magic on them they sound about as good as it's possible for things to sound. What more could you people possibly want?