Drum 'N' Bass
August: 10 drum 'n' bass releases you need to hear this month
Dark and dangerous
Dabs & Disprove/Was A Be & Dabs 'Thor (Breaks Remix) /Jitters' (Avantgarde)
Dabs and Grotesque’s Avantgarde label has been on its game since 2011, here notching an absolute pearler of a 12” as Break zips into tech skanker ‘Thor’ with some trademark groove and sizzle. It’s a track pushing an enormous number of buttons, but still keeps the space intact – much like flip ‘Jitters’, which finds Fabio from new Shogun signings Was A Be grabbing some studio time with Dabs, resulting in a thunderous jungle fling-down that pits old-skool snare acrobatics against hoovering, low-end tech murder. Two devastating dancefloor breezeblocks.
8/10
