Our next release is from a man who frankly shouldn't need an introduction at this point, but we're going to give him one anyway because it's our label and fuck you that's why. (Also because we're highly excited to have swung this one, not going to lie). Myth has been on all manner of quality labels this past year or two, including legendary imprints like 31, CIA, Symmetry, Flexout Sofa Sound and Dispatch (the latter while wearing his collaborative Ill Truth hat admittedly but look – these guys aren't just going places they've actually BEEN places too). In his solo works to date Myth has slowly established himself as that rarest of things, a young Drum & Bass producer who is as much of a careful student of the genre as he is of production science. His unadorned, bare bones dancefloor bangers flex, clank and grind with a gritty edge that sets him apart from many of his peers and cast him as somewhat of an heir to Total Science and Dillinja perhaps; someone with laser-like focus on building weapons that make you dance at night, with enough clever touches and pure craftsmanship that you can still marvel at them by day.
Onto the tunes then, 'Square One' is an urgent subby stepper with a ragga vocal and a ravey synth, rushy pads and some deft percussive touches, it cuts through any mix like a hot knife before breakfast and it has more bottom end than Kim Kardashian, it will also piss off everyone over the age of 23 because it's short, like Tom Cruise short so play this when you're going back to back with your disreputable uncle or older friend if you want to see him frothing at the mouth.
The good news is that you can play him 'Rogue' to get back in his good books, because this has it all – a rugged twisty break, more ghost notes than Casper's fridge, a bassline that sails close enough to 97-ish Dillinja to leave a scratch or two on the paintwork of his yacht, and the kind of serious, moody vibe that even the heads who were making tunes like this twenty years ago have a hard time nailing sometimes. This is a monolith lads, it's carved from solid basalt, it's the way the future was meant to sound. Dance like you're sucking lemons.
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Another class piece from Break. The original was good when it hit. The Bad Company remix was next level and this one to me is a close race for best remix of this classic. This one to me has the most gnarly drop of all. Like his formula is to sneak up on you with the drop and he accomplishes that mission over and over and over again. I've been collecting Break & Silent Witness tracks when I started buying records over 20 years ago.
mrmonoxide
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Great EP half melodic, half dancefloor. The Alix\Halogenix collab and the Workforce tune blow everything away when listened on a proper sound. Visages made a stellar tune - my fav of the EP - while "day by day" is a more classic liquid tune. Ozena
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