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Fresh talent SMG follows up his full Critical Music debut earlier this year with two more precision engineered pieces of drum & bass.

‘Lang’ drops hard, heavy and minimal, balancing raw energy and depth; giving obnoxious mid-bass room to do the work before layering on jungle-flavoured, shuffling breaks for the second drop.

Linking up with vocalist PVC, ‘Draw The Line’ hits different, delivering an almost oppressive barrage of moody sound design around a stepping groove and ear-catching bars from the UK MC.


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SMG - Draw The Line (feat. PVC)

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Critical Music is proud to present ‘Countdown’, the fourth solo album from one of drum & bass music’s true doyens, Enei.

A master of every style and strain of the D&B template - from energetic jump-up and silky smooth liquid, to skull-smashing darkness - Enei’s vast talent and hard-grafted skills have placed the Russian-born producer among the genre’s greatest exponents.

Countdown’ sees Enei bringing vocalists onto seven of the album’s 11 tracks, adding a warmer and more human touch, a natural progression as he becomes ever more rooted in the UK’s multicultural D&B community, while still being the same artist behind some of the hardest and most punishing drum & bass in recent years.  

Opener ‘Runaway With You’ sets the tone, presenting a moody liquid roller gilded with deft technical touches and the rich vocals of Cameron Hayes, before the lively, jazzy bounce of ‘Message’ featuring Sparkz lifts the energy in preparation for lead single ‘Black Bear’ to unleash its croaking, Belgian style jump-up pressure.

The vocals don’t stop coming; legendary London MC Killa P takes to the high-pressure ‘Nobody Else’, Bristol’s Eva Lazarus brings her soulful reggae inflections to ‘Set It Off’ and regular Critical contributor Verbz offers up his laidback bars across ‘Answers’.

The fantastically weird ‘Cartier’ punctuates proceedings with a pure instrumental work out that demonstrates Enei’s outrageous sound design skills, before the delicately drifting ‘Be The One’ brings more vocals from KLO in a link-up with Critical label boss and regular collaborator, Kasra.

‘Checks Up’ alongside Limmz reduces the tempo for the album’s sole non-D&B excursion, delivering a shaking breakbeat backbone for the young MC’s grime tinted bars. All that remains is for closing track ‘Axis’ to take things back to the raw fundamentals with a bubbling, percussive roller that leaves you hungry for even more.

Almost twenty years on since his debut release, and almost fifteen since exclusively signing for Critical Music, ‘Countdown’ is a bold proclamation that Enei’s enthusiasm for his art, and the art form itself, storms forward unabated.

Enei - Breathing (Feat. Megan Linnel)

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VISLA delivers his second EP of the year for Critical Music, picking up where the ‘Ultraviolence’ EP left off with another four-track collection of strictly underground sonics.

‘Engage!’ leads the way as VISLA brings a grizzly roller with a deceptively gentle groove that gnaws and burrows its way into your chest.

Meanwhile, both ‘Uhwork’ (alongside fellow Critical young blood SMG) and ‘Violence’ (in collaboration with Gino) come ready to cast shadows over the darkest corners of any dancefloor with punishing, otherworldly sound design and skin-crawling atmospherics.

‘March!’ closes the show in style, slowing the tempo for a deliciously dark slab of moody 140 that squats the space somewhere between garage and dubstep with a dead-eyed stare.

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VISLA - March!

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Track list:
Fracture & Neptune – Erase Everything
Kathryn Brenna x Genic – Coincidence
Trim x Polo – Darkside
Dismantle – Tomorrow Will Be Different
Sam Binga x Addison Groove x Sirius Soundz – Sacude
Mala x Magugu – Militant Don
Om Unit – The Chase (Alter Echo x E3 AEE3 remix)
Kofi Stone – Flowers Flow
The Dream -  Yamaha

== Demo Review ==
Dedman – This Sound

Spotlight – Toulouse

Visages x Strategy – Lewis Capaldi
Redeyes – Change Ilusion
Trail x Visages – Comet
Foreign Concept x Monty – Ron Millionario

Ehua – Aria
D'Angelo – Devil's Pie (Behling x Simpson Remix)

SWU FM

Sam Binga & Foreign Concept with Star Eyes | SWU FM | 13.12.2025

Countdown album out now! → https://found.ee/Countdown_album

Countdown

Runaway With You (Feat. Cameron Hayes)

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QZB make their return with two precision-tuned tracks, taking their cutting-edge Drum & Bass into sharper, more disciplined terrain.

Known for precision engineering, meticulous sound design, and an unmistakable forward leaning aesthetic, the Swiss duo continue to redefine the cutting edge of the genre.



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QZB - Cope

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New Energy Vol.3 is the final edition of Critical's very special compilation series, capturing the label’s sound and community at this moment in time. Across 19 tracks, the release brings together a broad cross-section of the Critical roster, from long-standing contributors to new voices entering the fold. Alongside a focus collaboration from Kasra, Enei and SOLAH, the compilation features tracks from artists including QZB, En:vy, Waeys, SMG, Sabre, Samurai Breakz and more.

Spanning dark rollers, vocal-led cuts, jungle-influenced rhythms and club-ready tools, New Energy reflects the breadth of the Critical sound.


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