Halogenix - Take The Lead (Instrumental Mix) [DIS071 D]

One of this year’s best surprises has been Soul Retrieval, the debut solo album from Janine Rainforth, best known as the lead singer and co-founder of seminal post-punk funk outfit Maximum Joy. Ransom Note

Beautiful stuff – Zakia Sewell BBC 6 Music

This is the Maximum Joy rework of one of the tracks from Janine Rainforth’s debut solo album – 
Always With You Maximum Joy mix.  Reworked by Charlie Lleweliin, original founder member and drummer of Maximum Joy, the feel is moody and lush, neo-soul with spacious down-tempo summery beats,.

Janine Rainforth, lead singer and original co-founder of Bristol post-punk band Maximum Joy/MXMJoY released her debut solo album ‘Soul Retrieval’ on the 14th February via London Field Recordings. 

It’s been well received and hints at a new musical future for Rainforth. These ten laid back, pop-centric grooves with Rainforth’s distinctive vocal are buried deep in emotion and feeling. DJ’s such as Gilles Peterson (6 Music /Worldwide FM) and Zakia Sewell (BBC 6 Music) have played her new music and interviewed Janine about the new album.

Deserving to be cited alongside their musical counterparts Gang of Four, A Certain Ratio and ESG, Rainforth co-founded Maximum Joy aged 18 and their spiky, joyful post-punk funk rose up from the fertile Bristol scene of the late 70’s/early 80’s, inspired by the likes of punk, Albert Ayler, I-Roy, Funkadelic and politics. They released a number of cult classic singles including ‘Stretch’, ‘Silent Street’ and /White & Green Place’. The band toured extensively, releasing ‘Station MXJY’ in 1982 – an album part produced by the legendary Adrian Sherwood. Their final single – a cover of Timmy Thomas’ Why Can’t We Live Together & Man of Tribes – was produced by Dennis Bovell.

Rainforth’s career in music and with Maximum Joy was cut short by a near fatal serious violent sexual attack from within her close professional circle. 

After a number of decades out of the music industry, Rainforth slowly forged her way back into performing and recording, with her first solo music EP released back in 2014, then in 2015, she spearheaded the reforming of Maximum Joy to perform at Simple Things Festival with a new line-up. In 2019, under the name MXMJoY, she & Charlie Lewellin released ‘P.E.A.C.E.’ which received critical acclaim from media including Pitchfork, The Guardian and Crack among others.

Always With You Maximum Joy mix

Andreya Triana - A Town called Obsolete (Mala Remix)

wonky summer vibes get mash up innit - out now!

OUT NOW

Redders - Dem Onez (prod Sam Binga) - Critical Systems - OUT NOW

Dub Phizix- Subway Swingers [Red Bull Premiere]

FRACTURE featuring Inaya Day - Cold & Rain ( Annie Mac BBC R1 RIP ) ASTROPHONICA

As you may know, we love drum & bass and this year have put out a healthy stream of D&B, but as summer is lingering and we are waiting for the next string of releasing to come out we thought we'd throw something different your way! 

'Flip It' is a track we made with Defex some time ago, we have had friends asking about putting a Hip Hop MC on it but we prefer to release is as an instrumental! 

If any vocalists want to use it on anything please feel free to do so, all we ask is that you credit us :)

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Ill Truth & Defex - Flip It [Free DL]

Me & Rider made a bashy 90s style digital riddim. If you're worried that it doesn't have loads of tekkers bass sounds, there's a video on my Instagram of nuff gyal bussin a wine to it in Vancouver. Plus it does have loads of tekkers Sherman Filterbank sounds, so knob off.

Champion EP

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Sam Binga & Rider Shafique - Highly Blessed - CHAMPION EP - Critical

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At the start of 2012 Sabre, Stray and Halogenix teamed up to drop one of the most blissful pieces of drum & bass that year, ‘Oblique’. Since then the dreamteam have continued their late night studio sessions and are now ready to announce their new collaborative project, Ivy Lab. Kicking off Critical’s 2013 season is the first fruit of their labour, ‘Afterthought’, again featuring the esteemed vocal talents of Frank Carter III to create the most inspired start to the year we could wish for.

‘Afterthought’ is a masterpiece filled with polished breaks, melancholic chords, reversed strings and Carter’s unmistakable heart wrenching sounds that draw us into the spine-tingling production, coming as an Ivy Lab standard. A late night marcher or a summers day soother, the choice is yours for the most beautiful, teary-eyed slice of drum & bass you’ll have heard in a long time. Quality through and through.

‘Brat’ on the other hand shows the other side to Ivy Lab as the guys get aggy at the controls for a supremely sick peak-time performer. Creeping bleep FX open it up as the b-line seeps into the mix for a drop into some proper dance floor funk. Meticulous on the edits and the morphing bass, it’s a dirty yin to the A-side’s yang.

Included in the package is a Digital Exclusive remix of 'Brat' by South London Ordnance

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Andreya Triana - A Town called Obsolete (Mala Remix)

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