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BLACKBOX 032EP
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Kahn's music draws effortlessly on wide-reaching influences, touching on soulful UK garage, bristling grime and shimmering, technicolor hip-hop. This EP expands beyond grime and dubstep and into more classic Bristol territory, inhabiting a musical space which shares direct lineage as much with Nellee Hooper and the Wild Bunch as it does more recent tropes. Featuring a turn from grime legend Flowdan as well as Rider Shafique and Young Echo emcee Jabu, this is also the first record to showcase Kahn's own vocals.
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BLKBXXX 010EP
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Scene stalwarts in their native British Columbia, brothers and production partnership Daega Sound have taken the dubstep template and injected into it a fusion mix of electronic music DNA. "State of Mind" draws as much on '90s hardcore as it does techno, D&B, and electro. Rushing synths build pressure before the sudden zero-g inertia drop of percussive movement and sub-undulation. Daega Sound cover slightly more conventional territory on "Fox Wing," drenching strident half-step in thick layers of techy reverbed texture.
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BLACKBOX 031EP
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"The Life You Chose" was the darkside highlight of DJ Madd's album from early 2012, with heavy support on dubplate making it one of his most in-demand tunes. Of the notable DJs giving it regular airtime, Distance liked the track so much, he offered to give it the remix treatment. Finally available on wax, the full glory of Madd's horror-laden, Hellraiser-sampling smasher can now be properly appreciated, coupled with Distance's rock-hard rework on the flip for maximum effect.
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BLACKBOX 029EP
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Black Box has compiled Biome's most developed and complete release yet -- the Two Way EP -- showcasing the breadth and variety in his music. "Reality" is a dazzling mix of sublime bell chimes, lofty breaks and searing mid-range, before moving into "Inner Mind," a lush ensemble of emotive strings & pads, cruising drums, and delicate piano and vocal. "Charged" features taut dynamics, where tense, unresolved textures and prodding synth hits flow over a tight structure of beats & bass. "Two Way" is a futuristic dub excursion.
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BLACKBOX 030EP
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Commodo and Lurka delivered one of the hottest 12"s of 2011 on Black Box #15, and they return for release #30 to stretch and then break the accepted boundaries of dubstep orthodoxy. From the shattered jazz-funk and 4D percussion of "Capisce?" to the nerve-shredding audio contortionism of "Glue Sniff Riddim," this 12" sees two of the UK's leading electronic musicians produce one of the most exciting records of the year.
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BLKBXXX 009EP
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$11.00
NOT IN STOCK, SPECIAL ORDER
This latest drop for the stealth-tech XXX imprint sees Killawatt team up with Thelem to deliver two spacious rollers. "Kaba" taps into the current flavor for tough, tribal riddims, with cascading kicks, pressurized subs and tech accents combining to make the soundtrack to a high-speed late-night metro trip. "Point of No Return" inverts the energy levels, mixing seismic bass drops and taut atmospherics to create an auditory black hole, bending sounds as they cross the event horizon.
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BLACKBOX 025EP
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Black Box presents the double EP project Making Simple Things Complex by Data. "Fall of Phaeton" is a reflective piece that weaves muted elements of tr*p-h*p and lush electronics over a synthetic garage framework. On "Laid Bare," soulful vocals are skillfully balanced against rough-edged grunge riffs, clattering drums and acidic motifs. The machine-code ambience of "The Construct" is swiftly dissected by razor-sharp electro beats and mutating sub-sonic themes, which carry through into "Disconnection," where agile halfstep drums and hectic bongo licks propel a rough-edged bassline.
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BLACKBOX 026EP
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Matt-U has had essential dubstep releases across such auspicious labels as Osiris, Wheel & Deal, and of course, Black Box. His latest 12" is the culmination of that work, focusing his sonic beam to produce two pieces of white-hot 140 pressure. "Wipe Em Out" is pure swagger, pairing hard-swung halfstep beats with a sick, low-frequency laser bass. "Uncontrolled" is cut from the same cloth, with stuttering, coughing subs underpinning everything; a mixture of punchy drums, ominous FX and digital dub trickery.
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BLACKBOX 021EP
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"Deeply" sees DJ Madd team up with Baltimore resident Heidi Thomas aka Lady Maroo to create his best vocal track to date -- low-slung humming bass and sparkling arpeggios framing the lush vox. "Riginal" on the flip is classic Madd ruffness; offbeat bongoes, haunting pads and hard-smacking halfstep drums swallowed by the pitch-black bass chasm.
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BLKBXXX 008EP
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$11.00
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TMSV teams up with June Miller for the second part of his collab EP on Black Box. "Ghost Ship" features mutating laser-bass hemmed in by strings and pads. "Lost Cause" creeps further into the shadows, with dub techniques applied to modern sound-sets, layering icy textures over halfstep beats and solid bass. Each record in the XXX series comes with black labels in a black paper sleeve -- cut as a 10" on 12" vinyl, all artist & track info is etched into the record itself.
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