Hacked

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These days, the name L Plus on a release comes laden with expectations. There'll be expansive areas of soundscape harbouring rave-reverberating bass and precision-strike drums. There'll be detailed attention to musicality and a never-lapsing surge of energy. And if you've been checking shows from heavy-hitters like Friction recently, you'll know that this EP delivers on those expectations to the max.

“Jailbreak” is all about controlled aggression. A suspenseful chord pattern interspersed with drive-by shots of bass sets the scene. Then there's a multi-stage drop, first delivering us into a pressurised container of bass and kicks, before a further build leads us to the addition of punch-to-the-solar-plexus snares. This is heavy, heavy, unrelenting stuff.

And talking of heavy stuff, the next track is, aptly enough, “One Tonne of Bass”. A big room intro built from swirling atmospherics and wide sonorous sustained notes shimmers into view. Then the eponymous vocal sample signals a drop down into straight-up head-nodding grimy funk. Then L Plus keeps the heat rising as the bassline modulates to give each sixteen bars a character of its own. This is one to give the dancefloor a proper workout.

Then “Arcade” brings something for ravers to love and producers to envy. The chirps, bleeps and melodic patterns of eighties gaming are recreated and woven into twenty-first synthesis in a way we haven't quite heard before. It's a shoot 'em up between nostalgic stabs and ultra-modern bass and riffs which grows into a full on sonic war, and it's an addictive exultant joy. This is one that screams out to be pulled back and played from the top.

Things are a little darker in the dystopian city conjured up by “Snitch”. There's a technoid paranoia in the air, brought on by an approaching insurgency of low end. The drop provides no relief as sparse beats leave the bassline free to fill the space with interrogation-room oppression. With one eye always on the dancefloor, this is where L Plus proves his mastery of creating mood with music.

This EP proves why L Plus tunes are a constant fixture in the sets of well-informed DJs. Combining a rare technical proficiency with a well-honed musical and storytelling sensibility, plus a ruthless desire to smash parties everywhere, this producer is at the top of his game. This is creative rave music set to blaze on raves and airwaves alike.

Tracklisting:

1.	L Plus – Jailbreak
2.	L Plus – One Tonne of Bass
3.	L Plus – Arcade
4.	L Plus – Snitch

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Snitch

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Played by TC on Mistajam’s BBC Radio 1 show & Charlie Tee on Kiss FM

DJ Support - Fred V & Grafix, Drumsound & Bassline Smith, Tantrum Desire, Roni Size, Mind Vortex, Maxim (The Prodigy), The Qemists, El Hornet (Pendulum) & many more

It’s been quite a year for our budding 22 year old Christian Hoffmann, AKA Toronto Is Broken. A debut LP Section Nine dropping at the start of the year and releases on Viper & Technique Recordings throughout the summer, you’d think that would be enough? Well it’s not, TiB’s not quite finished the year off just yet. Ladies & Gentlemen, introducing the first in a series on club focus singles from TiB: Way Down & Original.

Onto the music… Way Down, it’s certainly not something you’d expect to hear from TiB and it’s certainly a positive move into the dance floor banger arena. Hooky bleeps, marching beats and teeth shattering subs. This one’s got more funk than James Brown and more swagger than Jagger. Watch out for that second drop!

Original see’s TiB don his junglist cap for the vocal flex but the track is just outright Drum & Bass filth. The bassline on Original is all consuming and ready to destroy anything in it’s path.

Toronto Is Broken is ready for the clubs, are they?

Way Down / Original

Original

Noisia & The Upbeats - Dead Limit [Mind Overdrive Mashup]

Inside the Mainframe Compilation features 23 tracks from classic picks of earlier years to this year’s crucial summer blasters and festival ravers hand-picked by head honcho DisasZt. 

The selection exhibits pieces from Camo & Krooked, Body & Soul, Hybrid Minds, Fred V & Grafix, Fourward and many more. 

Incorporating undisputed anthems as well as hidden gems this album takes you deep down to the inner realms of Drum & Bass - in 23 steps.

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QUANTUM - Zombie Cats RMX (KIV TRIBUTE)

Akov - Space Bears

VIPER - DisasZt & Shimon feat..MC.Coppa - RUMOURS

Subl!ne - Hexagon

Preview taken from forthcoming "BASS CITY" Compilation  VOL 1 
 OUT ON 26th of FEb. 2020  - MAINFRAME RECORDINGS

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