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RINSE 022EP
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Dublin-born and Manchester-based Krystal Klear presents his Addiction EP on Rinse. The title-track is a funky slice of modern boogie driven by a fat analog bass line and swirling strings, all capped off with a towering vocal performance from Jenna G. It is joined by an extended instrumental edit that blasts the original into deep space. "No Sweat," meanwhile, is a slinkier and more romantic companion to the bombast of the title-track, with chimes and synthetic strings picking out woozy melodies above a strutting bass line.
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RINSE 021EP
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UK house producer Rupert Taylor aka XXXY presents his debut for Rinse, offering three tracks of shimmering, synth-led house music, marked out by Taylor's distinctive, spiraling melodies and sampled voices. "Got Me So" starts slowly, opening in a quiet cascade of Casio tones and looped vocals before abruptly exploding with the most muscular bass-line Taylor's crafted to date. "Get Ready" has a sweetness that harks more explicitly back to speed garage, and "Studio 9 (Just Like That)," is its most directly house-leaning track.
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RINSE 027CD
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Royal-T stands at the forefront of a new generation of grime producers. His tracks combine the snappy intensity of early grime with the infectious, bubbly swing of classic two-step garage. Royal-T made his Rinse debut with a two-track 12". The A-side "Inside the Ride" features here, summing up the album's upfront energy, exploding in a maelstrom of distorted bass lines and brittle percussion. "Cruel to Be Kind" and "Music Box" are similarly anchored in the tough, articulate rhythms of grime. The former makes the connection particularly explicit thanks to a rapid-fire guest appearance from label-mate P Money. The other tracks show his versatility as a producer, as well as a talent for assembling smart and sophisticated grooves from very few elements. "Missing Aurora": lithe two-step percussion and silvery vocals. "Don't Call Me Baby": its distinctive lead line harks back to the bounce of '90s speed garage. "Work Your Body": a collaboration with funky figurehead Roska, it drives forward with incessant momentum, roots fixed equally in both producers' musical past. No matter how far Royal-T's music might stray from the original grime template, the rudeness and immediacy are still never far from earshot. Rinse Presents: Royal-T represents a further exploration of Rinse's long-running love of distinctive and upfront UK music.
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RINSE 028CD
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Rinse FM started life in 1994 as a jungle station, and jungle lies at the roots of each new music Rinse has championed since. With Rinse: 20, Uncle Dugs, the station's only dedicated old-skool DJ, offers a potent reminder of the genre's power. "It's my 'Story of Jungle mix'," says Dugs. "A story of jungle music until it changed to drum 'n' bass." Opening with Lennie De Ice's "We Are I.E" -- widely accepted to be one of the first jungle tracks -- the album travels through an exhilarating chronology of the genre's evolution through the '90s, mixed all on vinyl, live. Dugs is perfectly placed to take listeners through that history. He's been involved in pirate radio for 20 years, having caught the rave bug as a teenager. Listening to the mix, you can hear that passion bubbling to the surface. Dugs returned to Rinse in 2011 to start a new weekly show of old skool jungle and hardcore on the station, as well as regularly inviting in legends of the scene to be interviewed on air. The response has been astonishing, which is one of the main reasons why a mix like this -- which recaptures the energy and innovation of a scene at the height of its creative power -- feels like an important statement. With so much of the new music that Rinse champions so strongly connected to jungle, there's no better time to remind people of those roots, and how deep they truly run. Artists include: Lennie De Ice, Code 071, Bodysnatch, The Criminal Minds, D'Livin, Noise Factory, Kuff, X Project, Nookie, Cloud 9, Origin Unknown, Long Dark, Slipmatt, Leviticus, Conquering Lion, Alex Reece, Andy C, Jo, Shimon, Wild Apache, DJ Phantasy, Shy FX, The Fugees, and Zinc.
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RINSE 030CD
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T.Williams sits near the forefront of a group of producers twisting elements of grime and funky into a rough-edged strain of UK house. His Rinse: 21 mix takes the form of an hour-long, club-centered set. It begins slow and soulful, before slowly escalating through several different phases. A feeling of acceleration characterizes the mix's first third, before Williams sinks into shimmering, loop-driven peak-time house for its middle section. It's around this point that the presence of grime -- the genre that T.Williams first made his name in -- begins to make itself felt. Grime and funky are reprised during the mix's final third -- a potent reminder of the pressure that still lurks behind the often smoother surfaces of Williams' peak-time selection. A series of ruff-neck grime/house hybrids follow, bringing the mix to a close in an exhilarating and playful blur of aggression and synthetic texture -- and in doing so, hark neatly backward to Williams' own roots, and those of Rinse FM itself. Artists include: Tendai, Juno Sutton, Soul Clap, Breach, Nitetime, Himal, Disclosure, Groove Control, Tuff Jam, George Fitzgerald, Aphrodisiax, Huxley, Eats Everything, Dusky, Maya Jane Coles, Breach & Midland, Julio Bashmore, MTD & Dutty Dan, Jessie Ware, Roska, J. Bevin and Foamo.
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RINSE 015EP
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King Krule is SE London-based singer/producer/songwriter Archy Marshall. "Rock Bottom" is a triumphantly doomed airstrike of rhythm and blues, while "Octopus" emerges from beneath a thick cloak of electronic smog and dub textures, melding swathes of low-end frequency with shimmering atmospherics. "Oddly intimate and irrevocably bleak [?] He makes deceptively simple, deeply personal/political art that finds joy -- perhaps its only joy -- in accident and chaos." --Pitchfork, Best New Music (8.0)
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RINSE 026CD
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Through a series of iconic early releases in 2008 on his own Roska Kicks & Snares imprint, Roska originally made his name for his raw, gritty funky tracks. However, even at the time, when the funky scene at large seemed like a time-bomb just waiting to explode and take the mainstream by storm, he was doing something subtly different. Strongly rooted in Roska's history in grime, his music infused that genre's roughness and nervous energy with more sultry, swung rhythms, welding big, blocky melodies to a percussive house backbone. Rinse Presents - Roska: 2 is his most wide-reaching collection of music to date, reaching far beyond the confines of funky while still keeping his signature sonic flourishes intact. Rather than remaining locked to any one scene, Rinse Presents - Roska: 2 continues to show off Roska's development as an artist in his own right. Club-driven funky still remains at the heart of the music he makes -- it's immediately audible in opener "You Dun Kno's" springy, syncopated percussion and "Do You Like This," which finds Jamie George again joining Roska. But elsewhere on Rinse Presents - Roska: 2, he uses funky's lithe percussive patterns as a springboard to toy with other sounds. So the snare hits on "Memories" crack like gunshots, but they're lifted by a buoyant vocal from Ruby Goe, and "Eleven45" is a deliciously synthetic slice of computer funk. "OnRinseSinceZeroEight" is, in essence, a grime track at 130bpm, switching up regularly between halfstep rhythm and deadly four-to-the-floor. The twin spectres of grime and dubstep turn up throughout the record. Sweetie Irie's gruff turn on "Badman" is bolstered by seasick, descending synths. Mz. Bratt delivers a hyperkinetic MC performance on "Go," and "Spanner In The Works," a formidable collaboration with Swindle & Funtcase, is led by stringy funk chords reminiscent of the hyper-colored synth work of the Butterz crew.
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RINSE 024CD
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The latest in the Rinse Presents series comes from London-based DJ and producer Brackles. Brackles has steadily built a name for himself as a DJ and producer to watch, after he started spinning at 15 years old and went on to become a regular at London's world famous FWD>> club night and host of his own weekly show on Rinse FM. As a producer, he's released several highly sought-after releases, including 2011's Number One 12" on Rinse. Brackles' DJ sets are renowned for being full of party-starters, energetic and elastic, effortlessly taking in funky, grime, vintage 2-step and bassline. Over the past few years, his productions have increasingly grown to reflect the careful selection and eclectic approach that makes his sets so compulsive: all deftly-swung percussion that nods to UK garage, the rude, grimey swagger of funky and technicolor washes of synth. There's something unmistakeably London about Brackles' music too -- it's present both in the sheer rawness and vibrancy of his tracks, and in the way he effortlessly draws upon the city's entire dance music history for ideas and energy. Brackles' Rinse Presents full-length hones his sound still further, retaining his distinctive, bright, crisp production approach while expanding his scope considerably. Across its length, razor-sharp club tunes and deep, percussive house tracks sit comfortably alongside some of his most upfront and pop-friendly music to date. And they're often all at play within the space of a single track: the four vocal tunes all wield the same balance of grit and soul that powered some of funky's most definitive anthems. Opener "Never Coming Down," for example, sets a honeyed vocal from Lily McKenzie to tightly-syncopated percussion and booming sub-bass. And where McKenzie's vocal performance is smooth and languid, Terri Walker's appearance on the shuffly "DPMO" is jittery and defiant, turning Brackles' angular garage backdrop into an unlikely pop song. The instrumentals on Rinse Presents: Brackles are equally powerful. "I Can't Wait" and "Squarehead" both all add extra muscle to the sort of spiky garage he's released though Blunted Robots in the past, all explosive sub-bass and hard snare hits, while "Too Much" stains a grime instrumental day-glo. The gorgeous "Lighthouse" and closer "Earphone Memories" take on the bass-heavy house sound that's currently owning UK dancefloors, but bury it deep in layers of fluorescent melody. And "Walkin' Out" is something different again, a volatile and unpredictable flurry of drum-hits and wispy synth, it's likely to throw a curveball at any dancefloor. A very London sound, then, from a producer never content to remain fixed in any one place, Rinse Presents: Brackles is a formidable statement of intent.
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RINSE 025CD
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This is the 19th edition of the Rinse label's compilation series, mixed by Icicle -- hugely respected by both dubstep and D&B heads through his output on Shogun Audio, Med School, Critical Recordings, Soul-r and Renegade Hardware. His productions are supported by the likes of Youngsta, Distance, J:Kenzo, N-Type, Plastician and more. Known to Rinse FM listeners as the host of the Shogun Audio show. Lately, UK dancefloors have become spaces where genres collide. It's become commonplace to DJs to refuse to be confined within any particular bracket, making for club sets that frequently veer wildly from one genre to the next. It's impressive how swiftly dancers have become used to that level of openness. It has taken DJs and producers with enough imagination and skill -- many, like Kode9, Oneman and Ben UFO, all closely associated with Rinse FM -- to highlight the shared ground between all these disparate sounds. Jeroen Snik aka Icicle is another such explorer. Starting out as a drum 'n' bass DJ and producer in his native Holland, his move to London and helming of Shogun Audio's Rinse FM show gradually drew him deeper into the ever-evolving sounds of dubstep. A long-time techno fan, he found in dubstep's wide-open spaces and rolling momentum the link between techno and the drum 'n' bass he had been producing and spinning. Attracted to the elements that all three shared, he began to include more dubstep in his sets, slowing the tempo down from 170 bpm while keeping the mood dark and contemplative. It's that same open-minded attitude that informs the slowly-shifting nature of Icicle's Rinse: 19 mix. It's appropriate, too, as it perfectly reflects Rinse FM's own refusal to remain limited within any one space. Beginning with the slower, techno-infused moves of his own "Deep Tech" and Locked Groove's "Centraal," Rinse: 19 mutates through ocean-deep halfstep into thrashy, ultra-percussive dubstep, before exploding into intricate, melodic drum 'n' bass. Throughout, the mix's anchoring rhythms remain constantly in flux, shifting seamlessly between four-to-the-floor and broken variants. The mood, however, remains consistent throughout. Artists include: Locked Groove, Distance, Spinline, J. Robinson, Proxima, Sleeper & District, Youngsta, Killawatt, Clarity, Rockwell and Sabre.
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RINSE 011EP
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This is the second 12" taster of London DJ/producer Brackles' Rinse Presents full-length (RINSE 024CD). As a producer, Brackles has released several highly sought-after releases and his DJ sets are renowned party-starters, effortlessly taking in funky, grime, vintage 2-step and bassline. Released in a limited edition vinyl format for Record Store Day, April 21, 2012. To be pressed in limited numbers, and immediately deleted.
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