February: 10 dubstep & grime releases you need to hear this month
Biome, P Jam, Jook and more
Tune of the month
Jook 'Juice' (Sector 7 Sounds)
Brigton-based producer Jook’s debut on wax has been a long time coming. Sector 7, the label run by Boofy and Lemzly Dale, feels like a fitting home for ‘Juice’, the A-side of a record that manages to make the warmest, albeit darkest, of sub feel utterly frozen over. For just under a minute, it’s effectively beatless, ushered along with choral sampling and scattershot snares, before the fizzing low-end kicks in like a baseball bat to the chest plate. It’s a simple formula but, when done as well as this, it’s undeniably good.
9/10