Drum 'N' Bass
April: 10 drum 'n' bass tunes you need to hear this month
Bop, Black Sun Empire, Noisia and more
Pola & Bryson feat Charlotte Haining 'Find Your Way' (Shogun Audio)
An exclusive signing to Shogun only happens if you’ve got that extra something. Pola & Bryson are in for another massive year, and this title track from their ‘Shogun EP’ is big-room liquid on a Technimatic scale. There are running melodious bass jetstreams; cavernous, swooshing atmospheres melding with the molten keys and flooding the system in a euphoric sweetness that still keeps it crackly and underground; and dew-drop soul vocals from the top drawer. Keep a watchful eye on them in 2017.
8/10
Killbox 'Killbox' EP (Ram Records)
After teasing us with some cryptic videos at the back end of last year, Ram finally come up with the goods as Ed Rush and Audio crown their riveting union with an EP of belligerent, bunker-busting tech naughtiness. ‘Bound To Others’ serves up artillery-speed crunchy pogo-tech with Noisia-esque geysers erupting from the murk, while ‘Pitchfork’ wonks out into metallic stop-start rolling glitch territory. Fans of Neosignal and Rockwell will find untold gems, while Ram aficionados will definitely appreciate this knottier, left-of-centre new strain of the family DNA.
7/10
