Crash Test V.3

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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 & Kasra - Be The One (Feat. KLŌ)

Enei - Axis

Enei - Breathing (Feat. Megan Linnel)

Enei - Cartier

Enei - Checks Up (Feat. Limmz)

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From the depths of the digital void, HACKWAVES emerges on the EATBRAIN PODCAST, infecting the airwaves with the unrelenting force of ZERO DAY. Plug in — and prepare for system overload.

TRACKLIST // 
1	Hackwaves & Wiguez - Escalating Disaster
2	Hologram - Loco
3	Noisia & The Upbeats - Dustup (Mefjus Remix)
4	Hackwaves & Midnight Cvlt - Tech Cvlt
5	Hackwaves - Bone
6	Gydra - Planet Rage
7	State Of Mind & Smooth - Runaway Train
8	Hackwaves - Bassline
9	Shadow Sect & Mizo - Genesis
10	Hackwaves & SuperRush - Cyber Attack
11	Agressor Bunx - Dystopia
12	Pythius - Wide Awake ft Flowanastasia (Prolix Remix)
13	Magnetude - Falling
14	Hackwaves & Vandermou - Emergency
15	Audio - Ricochet
16	Bad Legs - Metamorphosis (Hackwaves Remix)
17	Audio - From The Ashes (Neonlight Remix)
18	Metanoia - Corrupt
19	Hackwaves & Wiguez - Lifeline
20	Audio - Blood On Our Hands Ft. AENYGMA (Pythius Remix)
21	Hackwaves - Let's go
22	Gydra feat. IHR - Wipe
23	Mob Tactics - The Feeling
24	Metanoia - Revolver
25	Hackwaves & Regun - What the fuck
26	Finalfix - Full Metal Halo
27	Disphonia - Can't Hold Back (Gydra remix)
28	Hackwaves - Elevator Pitch
29	State of Mind & Coppa - Chain Reaction
30	Neonlight - Reflexion
31	Midnight Cvlt & Hackwaves - Fear
32	HackWaves & Moderate Hate - Arrika
33	Midnight Cvlt - Beware of the drop
34	Wiguez & Moneo & The Clamps - La Calle Del Aire
35	Finalfix - Hope Is Lost
36	Merikan - Infobesity (Myselor Remix)
37	Hackwaves & The Mind Hackers - Gassed Off
38	The Prodigy - Breathe (Mefjus & Camo & Krooked Remix)
39	Hackwaves - Warning
40	Chase & Status -  Baddadan (Teddy Killerz bootleg)
41	Mefjus & Maksim MC - Dopamine Hits

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EATBRAIN Podcast 206 by Hackwaves

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Ronnie Elbows

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TRCD moved through the undercity like a shadow. Neon veins ran across the walls, pulsing with the heartbeat of a city that had long stopped caring. 

The ghost signal from Esym lingered in his neural implants, a faint echo pointing him forward: the Vortex. The gateway that could send him back, back to the time before the Cells Interlinked cyber unit had risen, before their half-human, half-machine hands had reshaped the world into chaos.

Every tier of the city was a puzzle of firewalls and security drones, each step a gamble against AI enforcers that remembered every trespass. TRCD had learned to move between them, masking his presence with fragments of old code, stolen from the systems Esym had left behind. 

The Vortex wasn’t a place you found on a map, it existed in the folds between networks, at the intersection of forgotten tech and raw energy.

He paused at the edge of an abandoned data tower, its upper floors shattered, sky barely visible
through jagged steel. Here, according to fragmented logs, the first traces of the Vortex had been
detected, where the Cells Interlinked had experimented with temporal compression. 

TRCD tapped into the console embedded in the wall. The interface flared, holograms folding into his retina display. Streams of data scrolled like rain, whispers of the past trapped in code.

A warning flashed: unauthorized access. TRCD’s implants flared, forcing him to dive into the maintenance ducts as a patrol of autonomous Sentinels swept the floor below. He could hear their mechanical limbs clanking, scanners piercing the shadows. One wrong move and the timeline could collapse, erasing everything he had tried to preserve.

At last, in the core of the tower, he found it: a lattice of pulsating energy, twisting metal and plasma into a doorway that shimmered between moments. The Vortex. It smelt of ozone and old circuits, alive with possibilities. 

TRCD’s hand hovered over the interface, the code of the Cells Interlinked etched in his memory. One wrong entry, and he could doom more than himself. One correct sequence, and he could undo decades of manipulation, restore the lives stolen by the half-human AI warlords... He took a breath.

And then the Vortex shuddered. Something from the future, or what remained of it was trying to
step through before him.

TRCD returns to his home base, VTO Records, for what has now become a yearly tradition. 

As label owner, he closes out each year with a powerful statement piece that captures the essence of his sound and marks another milestone in the TRCD story.

The Vortex is a fierce yet melodic neurofunk weapon, twisting listeners into its high-energy swirl of raw emotion. Already tested on dancefloors to stunned reactions and praised by fellow producers, this track cements TRCD’s status as a force in the scene and a fitting finale to another unforgettable year on VTO Records.

The Vortex opens on November 28th exclusively on Beatport & Spotify before everywhere December 12th

The Vortex

TRCD- The Vortex- VTO Records- 2025

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The legendary DnB duo from Ukraine, AGRESSOR BUNX invites TORNADA to join them on their brand new EP on EATBRAIN. Their signature sound channels the raw essence of neurofunk. This is true sound weaponry forged for the brave — for those willing to meet the abyss FACE TO FACE without flinching.

Crash Test V.3

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