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The years first essential long player comes to us from Werk Discs' Lukid, delivering his anticipated follow up to 2007's 'Onandon' and some more clandestine productions in 2008 with the further beat explorations of his 'Foma' LP. Lukid's sound is in thrall to the unique soul extensions of everyone from Theo Parrish to Pete Rock, but attuned to the slack beat style of the HudMo/Fylo currents while sucking in a plethora of influences from electro acoustic sound design to modern composition. 'Ice Nine' can't fail to catch the ears of any further beat heads, with a plaintive piano line almost… Read more

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Third limited instalment in the HATE series, this time featuring another track from the archives and a new reworking from earlier on in 2008. 'Human Resources' on the A-side was recorded in September this year, built entirely out of original samples dating back to 1993 and re-assembled with a metallic, relentless edge that's somewhere between the appropriated hardcore of Zomby and the squashed machinations of T++. Needless to say, it comes from the hands of a seasoned, well known producer who wishes to remain stumm. "Cunning Love' on the flipside dates back to 1992 and is a previously unr… Read more

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8-bit dub maestro Jan Gleichmar aka Disrupt sticks his fingers inside his machines again for Jahtari with two more (a)cutely skunk addled dubs. 'Bezerk dub' pulls another exceedingly cheeky one-finger bassline out of the box, before connecting the dots between Kingston and Dusseldorf with a deliciously Kraftwerkian space melody. 'Echobombing' is another soundsystem primed slice of cheek, rolling out natty 8-bit bass drones and odd synthlines with the usual melange of psychotic sample babble and matrix of FX that sit this particular cut in the same company as Austrian Dorian Concept. Supremely unhinged modern dubs for stoned minds = Killer!

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Remixes of one of the biggest tunes of the last twelve months from DJ Mujava...

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Issuing the very last word on the state of dubstep's constant mutations in 2008, Londoner Spatial drops an exceptional 10" of clipped post-Burial/future-garage productions for the newly coined Infrasonics imprint - and right at the very end of 2008 has produced what will no doubt be a true collectors item a few months down the line. Housed in a minimalist sleeve and bearing little other info than a five letter code and the label's URL, the aesthetic is deliberately stripped and scoured clean, much like the beats inside. '80207' is an absolutely killer slice of crisp and spacious garage du… Read more

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Expanding their 2008 clash set, Disrupt, Benja and Bo Marley face off again with a full length battle running for a further 12 rounds. The original and dub versions of 'Bauhelm' and the unhinged 'Fleisch' from the first battle are present and correct, but things start heating up with the rather nasty Robocop-gets-high styles on 'Robot Tracker', with Benja' super minimal version eclipsed by Bo Marley's properly odd 'Robotter' version with full vocals and electrodub FX, or Bo Marley's cod epic 'Robot Echos' dancefloor damager. Benja initiates the next round with the half-cut 'Ursulla Tracke… Read more

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The muchly anticiapted second release from Appleblim's Applepips imprint comes to fruition with two heavyweight dub techno transmissions from the split production personalities of Brendon Moeller remixing 'Blim and Peverlist's 'Over Here' from Skull Disco 08. Working under his Beat Pharmacy alias for the first rerub, Moeller layers up a deeply padded and upbuilding dub techno floor worker, allowing some mammoth dub chords to gradually work themselves into a quite a lather and then dropping some immense snare cracks for an ultimate dub techno experience. Reverting back his birth name, Moel… Read more

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Somebody hold this man down! Zomby unleashes another stonking killer this week, this time round for Ramp records who released his brilliant 'Liquid Dancehall' 12" earlier in the year, propelling him to the forefront of what we now call the wonky sound. 'Lies' is another one of those indefinably brilliant Zomby productions, effortlessly fusing dubstep bounce from the likes of Benga or Skream with a darker rave spirit inherited from his youth mashing to the sounds of Reinforced records or Suburban Base, and again making brilliant use of a well clipped vocal sample which raises his tracks he… Read more