Clubroot - Clubroot

1 Low Pressure Zone
2 Embryo
3 High Strung
4 Dulcet
5 Lucid Dream
6 Birth Interlude
7 Talisman
8 Nexus
9 Sempiternal
10 Serendipity Dub

Fans of Burial, take note. Lo Dubs come correct this week with a hugely enticing and anticipated album from Clubroot. Clubroot has apparently been producing for the best part of the decade, initially constructing tech step D'n'B indebted to the likes of Nico, Ed Rush and Optical but shifting his palette to the dominant dubstep style in recent years. To sum up Clubroots sound as succinctly as possible, it's like the perfect hybrid of Burial and Kryptic Minds, taking the mood driven atmospheres and quicksilver slink of Burial and alloying it to dynamic basslines and intricately produced rhythm structures. This combination is explored through ten tracks united by a singular rhythmic vision in thrall to classic darkside dance music and operating under the cover of severely occluded atmospheres. With Mary-Anne Hobbs fully on his case and forums across the interweb quickly catching onto his sound it's not going to be long before he's soundtracking every channel four ident so make sure to get in early! Essential recommendation for fans of Burial!!!

16Bit - Cobra

1. Cobra
2. Jump
3. Can You Show Me What Head Is

Three thunderous dubs from 16Bit launched from Kromestar's Southside Dub Stars imprint. Lead cut 'Cobra' picks Indian tablas and sitars as its source material before mangling them into shape on a rugged display of dynamic halfstep for the rave. 'Jump' on the flip is our pick of the bunch, setting the riddim with skanking piano stabs which 16-Bit duly fills in with growling synthlines while managing to keep a heavyweight flow. 'Can You Show Me What Head Is' flips this formula inversely for a out-and-out nasty riddim flecked with ragga samples to provide a neat textural counterpoint. Nasty, Nasty, Nasty...www.boomkat.com

Feadz - People, Numbers, Money, Business

1 - Constant Ovulation
2 - The Bright Side
3 - Age 21
4 - Liisborg Error
5 - Flashin'Outro

The newest EP from Feadz..

Beat Pharmacy - Wikkid Times (Remixes)

1. Rooftops feat. Coppa (Minilogues Taqism Remix)
2. Time feat. Damon Aaron (John Daly Remix)
3. Ghostship feat. Spaceape (Deadbeat Remix)
4. Backwards Never feat. Infinity (Xdb Remake)
5. Sunshine feat. Paul St Hilaire (Intrusion Sunset Dub)
6. Nuclear Race feat. Paul St Hilaire (Appleblim & Komonazmuk Dub)
7. Assassination Of The Mind feat. Ras B (Teddy G. Dub)
8. Strangers feat. Spaceape (Headhunter Remix)
9. Hope & Frustration feat. Ras B (Quantec Remix)
10. Piece Of Mind feat.Ramadanman (Ramadanman Refix)

MUST HAVE COLLECTION..

2562 - Love In Outer Space / Third Wave

1. Love In Outer Space
2. Third Wave

Dubstep release of the week comes from 2562 with the shocking 'Love In Outer Space' and 'Third Wave' cuts dropping smart and heavy on Tectonic. It's hard not to fall for 'Love In Outer Space', easily one of the most abstract and stylish cuts we've heard from Dave Huismans casuallystepping forward from the minimalism of previous efforts with large splashes of melodic colour strewn across the tipsy-pitched rhythm. On the flip 'Third Wave' is a slightly more standard 2562 cut, but that's no bad thing as this reminds us of his 'Techno Dread' or 'Hijack' tracks with uptempo 4/4s offset by crafty drums and minimised vibes on the keys. Just try and hold yourself back from this!...www.boomkat.com

BLM & Pawas - Online EP

A1. Online
B1. Cooper
B2. Down Down

BLM aka Ben Micklewright is co-founder of the UK’s Fear and Flying imprint, a label that has been gaining momentum and support in all the right places. This release is already being supported by Luciano, MANDY, Raresh and Groove Armada, a testament to its wide appeal.

The ‘Online’ EP is a product of the digital age, built through a purely online exchange of the parts, it has culminated in a package of deep house treats. Featuring the vocals of Lois Winstone (daughter of World-renowned actor Ray Winstone, actor in her own right and singer in various UK cult bands) her voice whispers through ‘Down Down’, a track oozing mystique and allure.

Made up of three deliciously warm tracks, Online, Down Down and Cooper, the 11th release for Fear of Flying mark it as a label pushing forward quality music and mapping out it’s own style. As the boundaries of deep house and techno are swinging, eyes are on Fear of Flying as they continue to deliver fresh sounds from talented artists across the globe.

A producer of great skills, BLM channelled his early passions into Massive Records, one of the UK’s biggest independent record shops, before releasing on labels from Leftnet to Azuli plus a string of recent beautiful releases on Fear Of Flying. Previously collaborating with MarcAshken, this release ties him with Pawas for the first time, bringing together their spontaneous and fresh sounds.

Pawas delivered the previous release for Fear of Flying and this is his third for the label. Indian-born and musically bred, he offers an exotic element to the current dancefloor sound.

With forthcoming releases and remixes planned on Leftroom, Hypercolour and murmur labels this may be the start of many well-loved releases to come from the pair.

Carl Craig - Angel Remixes

A1 Angel (Jerome Sydenham's Vocal Dub)
B1 Angel (Keith Kemp's Western Addition Mix)
B2 Angel (Jerome Sydenham's Deep Space Dub)

Big room ready rerubs of Carl Craig from Jerome Sydenham and Keith Kemp. All ears are on Jerome Sydenham's big muscle Mary of a remix of 'Angel' on the A-side. Made for the larger house and techno floors this is a stripped but heavyweight club track that does the business effectively and in style. If the sleazy vocal on the A-side is too much try the Deep Space Dub on the flip, or Keith Kemp's more laidback 'Western Addition' mix...www.boomkat.com

Scuba - Bleach / Volt

1. Bleach
2. Volt

Hot Flush head Scuba aka Paul Rose revives his occassional Abucs imprint with two experiemental steppers cuts moving deeper into ultra-reduced dub-tech hybrid styles. 'Bleach' is an intensely crafty cut on the A-side, swiping the rhythm clean of any percussive reference points in the style of Kode 9's seminal 'Sine Of The Dub' and leaving only traces of fluttering hi hats and shivering snares in the cavernous dub construction. This is dub techno and dubstep merged in the truest minimalist sense, with only hints of rhythmic guidance making for a brilliantly abstract yet effective experiment. 'Volt' on the flip is no less brilliant, this time constructing a bare bones rhythm with a measured paucity of elements in the finest style of T++, before meshing in climactic acid lines filtered deep into the mix for a hypnotically involving dancefloor effect much like the Marcel Dettmann mix of his 'From Within' cut. Very few have managed to merge Berlin and London dub techniques as succinctly and effectively as Scuba and we can't get enough of it. Sick twelve...www.boomkat.com

Slugabed - Gritsalt / Lets Go Swimming

A. Gritsalt
B. Lets Go Swimming

Quickly slipping into the slipstream of excellent upcoming Skweee package on Ramp is the obliquely 8-Bit styles of Slugabed with the followup to his wild edits 12" on Stuff. It's quite easy to consider the likes of Slugabed, Taz Buckfaster or even Mark Pritchard as the overseas synthfunk cousins of the Skweee scene, with nuff evidence on this well screwed and ultra compressed 12"s of wrong-funk. 'Gritsalt' flips the often super-sweet melodies of Skweee on its head with harshly dischordant but similarly lo-fi compositions over sloth-slow beats, kinda like he's been drinking domestos mixed with shards of old Ataris instead of neat Vodka, while 'Lets Go Swimming' on the flip rubs layers of caustic melodics into a frictional mass driven by hard crunched and gangsta leaning beats. So yeah, there's similarities, and there's differences but they're undeniably both made for tipsy club sessions. Big with fans of Zomby, THE MF Gaslamp Killer, Mike Slott and Rustie...www.boomkat.com

Benga - Buzzin / One Million

A. Buzzin
B. One Million

New peaktime Benga joint - the title track making use of one of those hooky bleep riffs that made "Night" so instantly imprinted on your memory, complete with some nice Casio style noises and a clever Art of Noise style vocal edit. "One Million" on the flip is more heaving and battered, a downcast roller with viscous sub-bass stabs topped and brittle drums with an industrial edge...www.boomkat.com

La Roux - La Roux

My personal fave..

01. In For The Kill
02. Tigerlily
03. Quicksand
04. Bulletproof
05. Colourless Colour
06. I'm Not Your Toy
07. Cover My Eyes
08. As If By Magic
09. Fascination
10. Reflections Are Protection
11. Armour Love
12. Growing Pains (UK bonus track)

There's something disappointingly familiar about La Roux, and I don't just mean the cantilevered shock of red hair sported by the singer Elly Jackson, which summons unhappy recollections of Flock of Seagulls, the 1980s "modernist" pop band. Like Little Boots, La Roux's limp retro-electropop carries with it the instant sour tang of curdled expectations.

To hear Depeche Mode wrestling the primitive synthesiser technology of 30 years ago into bold new sounds from the frontline of future-pop was, in its day, an exciting experience. To hear those exact same sounds now glibly accessed via foolproof modern equipment, with no compensatory increase in imagination, is to witness ambition crumbling at the first hurdle of originality. Still, at least Jackson and co-producer/writer Ben Langmaid have eschewed the cliched "cybernetic" angle employed by Little Boots, opting instead for the more emotionally- involved approach of charting the ups and downs of a youthful relationship. Sadly, it's no Blood on the Tracks, the duo lacking the transformative poetic ability that might distil insight from tribulation. Whatever stage of the affair she's depicting, everything about her response - from melody to delivery - seems to stay the same...www.independent.co.uk

All Night Long EP 3

A1 Brooks - Iwanchu
A2 Sian - Siamese Cat
B1 Lee Johnes - Aria (Lawrence Remix)

This is the 3rd, and what they say:

Adam Marshall: “ Lawrence mix for me... moody and tight”
AtJazz: “My boy Brooks takes the biscuit! Killer!”
Ben Watt: “gentle future cloud music from lawrence. lovely. Played on my Kiss show.”
Danny Howells: “Awesome, will play. Thank you!!”
Dirt Crew: “Great to hear new shit from Brooks ! love it ! always deeper ...also really like the sci-fi tech from Sian here ;) ”
Jazzanova: “Iwanchu is my tune. Will be played for sure. A tasty groover. Thanx ”
Jimpster: “all quality stuff here! my pick is the Lawrence Remix.”
Jori Hulkkonen: “what's wrong with you people??? you can't give out 3 tracks as amazing as these on one go”
Laurent Garnier: “nice deepness will play it in the mix”
Martin Landsky: “good record, all trax are good...the lawrence mix is my favourite though.”
Mathew Dear: “IWANCHU is a hit...”
Motorcitysoul: “epic remix from lawrence, lovin it!”
Nick Curly (Cecille): “great release serie, i like all of them!”
Patrice Baumel: “I like both the Sian track and the Lawrence rmx. Warm and sophisiticated...”
Peter Kruder: “Great 12" Will play this.”
Ralf Kollmann (Mobilee): “great stuff! I really like IWANCHU. Funky!”
Runaway (DFA): “ IWANCHU is my fav here :) Superb!”
Sasha: “Very cool indeed”
Sasse: “Siamese cat is good stuff, nice one !”
Sebo K: “superb release! full support!”
Shur-I-Kan: “great stuff all round!”
Tiger Stripes: “Excellent!!!”

All Night Long EP 2

1. Appleblim & Ramadanman - Sous le Sable
2. Martyn - For Lost Relatives
3. Martyn - Electric Purring
4. Pearson Sound - Indelible

Lee Jones and Will Saul's Aus Music label have sorted something of a pivotal 12" for the whole dubstep/house crossover thing with fresh productions from Martyn, Pearson Sound and Ramdanman & Appleblim exploring the 4/4 groove between 124-130bpm. 'Blim & Rams' 'Sous Le Sable' first appeared on the recent Aus label mix, showing the way forward for a pair of dubstep's most interesting producers with Funky debted tom patterns and meeting Sven Wesisemann alike deep house atmospherics and a warehouse primed square bass. Martyn's 'For Lost Relatives' again belies his Theo Parrish influences with dischordant jazz keys and chord progressions inherited from Detroit married to Broken Beat style Basslines and smart percussion. Broken Beat is also the reference point for Pearson Sound's 'Indelible' with shades of older Seiji productions in the jazzy vibes and well swung breakbeat patterns. Released just in time for summer, this should be soundtracking long hazy days and grooving garden/carnival/bar sessions everywhere. Tip!...www.boomkat.com

All Night Long EP 1

1 MyMy - Going Going Gone
2 Will Saul And Tam Cooper - Heatwave
3 Lee Jones - Lab
4 Shur-I-Kan - Tubular

More house diversity from AUS MUSIC! Features tracks from MY MY, LEE JONES, SHUR-I-KAN, and WILL SAUL & TAM COOPER. From dubbed out house to layered undulating techy sounds, this compilation of tunes is intelligent sounding house, but 100% dancefloor friendly...www.groovedis.com

Seven - Drop / The Darkness

1. Drop
2. The Darkness

Following on from Cotti's heavy gear, Aquatic Lab have enlisted one of the freshest names in the scene in the form of Seven. Kicking off on the A with ‘Drop’, Seven shows he will be a name to be reckoned with in the near future. Unbelievably tight percussion blended with a nasty rolling bassline, this one will slot into many a set. Lights out - Late night styles! The flip is ‘The Darkness’ - a D&B indebted atmospheric future stepper, featuring a huge bass kick ride. A much anticipated release, The Darkness is receiving massive dubplate support form the likes of N Type, Skream and Youngsta...www.soundsoftheuniverse.com

Millie & Andrea - Temper Tantrum / Vigilance

A. Temper Tantrum
B. Vigilance

Third limited edition transmission from the Daphne label, once again finding covert operators Millie and Andrea nudging the controls further into the red with two squashed and deadly killers primed for the dance. Andrea takes charge of the A-side with a raved-up low-end wrecker complete with big f*ck-off sunset strings and a tumbling break that's one half junglist hardcore and one half peak-time dubside anthem. Millie, meanwhile, delivers a spacious woodblock destroyer on the flip, channelling Martyn and T++ with radiant blue chords and murderous stabs before a frenzied analogue bassline lets itself loose nudging towards the end. Pure dancefloor ruffage with a funked up heart - Massive twelve!...www.boomkat.com

Brackles - Get A Job / Lizards

A. Get A Job
B. Lizards

Brackles' second release this week hits the ground running on Apple Pips with two future augmented swingers. Both tracks are informed by a healthy appreciation of 2-Step and Garage functions, with the skipping flex of Zed Bias, El-B or Steve Gurley encoded into its rhythmic DNA. 'Get A Job' on the A-side winds a double helix of influences styles with Zed Bias' tuff swing style offset by Zomby alike synth bursts at 138bpm. 'Lizards' on the flip makes a knowing nod to the UKF scene with a rhythm sounding like a pitched up version of Roska and Lil' Silva making a retro garage track with added noughties edits. Smart tracks for followers of Ramadanman, TRG or Synkro - Big twelve!!!...www.boomkat.com

Sven Weisemann - Shove EP

1 Shove
2 Redux
3 Samui Love
4 Limaro
5 Trakz
6 Limaro 2

It has been quite a while since the last release from Jark Prongo on the Mojuba sublabel, but now we are back with some fresh music from the prolific Mr. Weisemann. It's his a.r.t.less debut and it is very hard to capture the feeling arising from this great music in words. All belongs were it has to be, it's like one of those a+ essays in music, there are deep emotions as well as demanding grooves and the balance of subtlety and roughness is just impressing ... but please take a listen for yourself!

RSD - On Deck / Accepted

A. On Deck
B. Accepted

Old-skool trooper RSD rocks up two winners for Sheffield's R8 records with some proper future roots fusions. 'On Deck' ploughs his years of Sound System experience in the bass cradle of Bristol into a nu-Roots stepper riding propulsive 4/4s and topped off with weirdly ascending melodies sounding like he's smoked one jazz-snout too many. 'Accepted' switches to a halfstep swing on the flip, creating a feeling of impending doom with cavernous dub stabs and a red-eye staring swagger riddim to darken up any rave space...www.boomkat.com

Free Blood - The Singles

1 Never Hear Surf Music Again
2 Quick and Painful
3 Grumpy
4 Royal Family
5 Parangatang
6 Weekend Condition
7 Never Hear Surf Music Again
8 Weekend Condition [Scotty Coats & Wes the Mes Mix]
9 Royal Family
10 Grumpy [Greg Wilson Mix]
11 Parangatang

Free Blood began as an attempt by former !!! percussionist John Pugh and fashion designer Madeline Davy to blend the impeccable style of Manhattan dance clubs with the raw energy of Brooklyn parties. The duo formed Free Blood in 2003, mixing noisy, percussion-heavy dance-punk akin to !!! with pop melodies and structures while keeping the instrumentation simple, focusing on bass guitar, drum machine, and vocals.

Though most of Free Blood's singles came out within the span of a year, they were almost three years in the making. That may be why The Singles often feels more like an album than a compilation, even though its first half consists of the band's original singles and the second half is devoted to remixes. Throughout these tracks, John Pugh and Madeline Davy define and redefine their sound, which is akin to the boundary-pushing dance-punk Pugh played as !!!'s percussionist, but served up with more mischievous wit and style -- it makes perfect sense that Davy is also a fashion designer for the Octopi label. It also makes perfect sense that The Singles was released by Rong Music in conjunction with DFA Records: Free Blood's brainy hedonism, sense of humor, and compelling rhythms are a natural fit with that label. The epic "Never Hear Surf Music Again" begins The Singles, building from towering toms and finger snaps into druggy sleaze ("Take it if it makes you numb/Take it if it makes you come") with a slinky bassline, vocals that split and circle around themselves, and an Arthur Russell-esque cello sawing in the background. That would be enough for most bands, but Free Blood push things further, piling on electric and acoustic guitars and self-destructing electronics, keeping the song rolling and changing for its entire six minutes. Though most of Free Blood's other tracks go straight for the jugular, and dancefloor, that sense of adventure pulses through the rest of The Singles: "The Royal Family" clinks out an opening rhythm on wineglasses, and "Parangatang" adds tumbling pianos to its tribal beats as it closes. "Quick and Painful" and "Grumpy," meanwhile, focus on Pugh and Davy's raw energy and cheeky vocals. The Singles' remixes elongate Free Blood's choppy hyperactivity into sleek but only slightly more conventional tracks. Barfly (aka Rong Music head Ben Cook) peels "Never Hear Surf Music Again"'s complexity down to its funkiest and most ecstatic moments, transforming it into a nine-minute workout with ghostly guitars, mantra-like vocals, and synths that buzz like synapses. Greg Wilson's driving disco-tinged reworking of "Grumpy" and Tim Love Lee's clattering, abstracted remix of "Parangatang" explore the funky yet alien side that lurks just under Free Blood's punky surface. The Singles is a taut, exciting introduction to a group with a surprising amount of layers in its music...www.allmusic.com