Drum 'N' Bass
December: 9 drum 'n' bass releases you need to hear this month
LSB, Calibre, Commix and more
Commix 'Generation' EP 2 (Metalheadz)
After returning to the scene earlier this year with a teasing remix-plus-unreleased tunes package, Commix’s first proper new material since the iconic duo parted ways feels like a genuine juncture. Brand new production methods, a relaxed approach to BPMs and sound palettes and the fingerprints of a house-based hiatus culminates in the brilliant ‘Honey’: a simply gorgeous melding of classic, scything 90s breakbeats and velvety Balearic synth nodules, with the two elements wedded together via a dreamy, waltzing house aesthetic. The backdrafting trails that shadow each snare would sound menacing were it not for the lucid, luxurious weave of sun-bleached, hazy FX that glues the whole thing together. What a class act – returning with a completely original goalpost-mover. We’ve missed you.
9/10
