after a break of six years matt returns to his off-key industries imprint with a varied blend of trippy warehouse belters, sun drenched spine tinglers and slow motion acid. already receiving support from the likes of marcel dettman, santiago salazar, perc, truss and others. its also been downloaded for richie hawtin & marco carola, whatever that means.

raidens label always comes with something different from the usual d&b formula rubbish. martsmans track is very impressive, with his refreshing future sound. on the other side its business as usual from raiden with help from khanage, its funky, and not as full on as normal, but again right at the cutting edge. martsman got into drum&bass around the end of the 90s. debuting on new york based offshore recordings in 2005, he released on smaller as well as established labels like alphacut records or counter intelligence in the following years. in 2008, tracks on warm communications and hospital records sub label med school attract the attention of a steadily growing audience also from outside the drum&bass scene.

killer drop from matt o brien that takes influence from the terrence dixon / claude young end of detroit techno

nice price deal !!! following on from the in demand subliminal kid release earlier this year, this sick new ep from label boss matt o brien serves up a fulsome diet of deep, dark and mindbogglingly wonky house and techno, in a release that is the apex of matts production skills to date. kicking off, the aptly named gauntlet throws down fuzzily tweaked and flanged raw beats, married to dizzying, tremelous synths, darkside stabs and general dancefloor frenzy. dodaso flips the script, sounding like a million orthogonal genres colliding and combining in deep dub sub space, underpinning the delicate melody while splurges of colour obliterate your senses. this is very different to anything else out there and will appeal to a wide range of djs and floors. rounding off the ep, blackwood freestyle at first sounds deceptively simple, hiding its dark secrets like an insane clockwork puzzle, unfolding like hell raisers lament configuration with each listen revealing uni-maginable contortions that pull you further into the groove.

already receiving big support from peter van hoesen, norman nodge, marcel fengler, perc, brendon moeller, len faki, laurent garnier and more. following the recent success of his starting over ep on belgian tastemakers curle, matt heads home to off-key to release his strongest work to date.
first track >bloom< whispers sweet nothings in your ears while shimmering synths caress your neck and skipping percussion dances around your groin. unable to resist, you let yourself go and >without warning< spikes your drink, drags you into a filthy warehouse rave and leaves you grinning maniacally under a flickering strobe light.

excellent qualitiy dub techno stuff

incredilbe package with remixes by schatrax, kink, todd sines as .xtrak, kink and the subliminal kid. the result of schatrax take is a typically beautiful and deep reworking. todds remix of dodaso is typically fucked up and funky in true .xtrak style. kinks version of the gauntlet remains quite faithful to the original whilst also instilling it with his own trippy and unique style. last year peder mannerfelt, aka the subliminal kid, sent me a track which became the only track released on off-key through a demo submission. blackwood freestyle has mutated under the hands by the subliminal kid into a rolling dub inflected groover.

meth met local dnb head blade whilst djing on the south coast of united kingdom and alongside virtua they formed the sect signing to offkey with nerve attack. numerous releases followed on labels such as offkey, position chrome, freak & obscene. after smashing clubs across the globe with his djing and music made alongside blade & virtua, meth has decided to go solo as an artist. the new focus will be dancefloor smashers, if you have seen meths djing style you ll know what to expect - window shattering bass and running drums are the order of the day.

getting heavy rotation on the club circuit, many will have gone mad to it, few realise who is responsible for it. if ever a track epitomised the raw elements of cutting edge drum & bass music, this is it. a proper nasty piece of beat work filled with twisted self-oscillating bass sorcery that is simply laying dance floors to wreckage. this track has gained massive support from the likes of andy c, ed rush, dieselboy and of course the ok recordings crew.

so against the grain it seems to flow perfectly, its still unmistakeably proket but now the focus is on paranoid soundscapes as well as dancefloor destruction this is what makes proket special - another ideology completely unconcerned with regularity or confines.

the third limited release on off-key industries is once again a return to the darkside of the rave at a time when many commentators bemoan the general lack of ideas heard on contemporary techno dancefloors, and talk of the death of minimal. this release features the subliminal kid, an up and coming swedish producer who has previously recorded tracks for delsin sub label ann aimee. on the original version, the subliminal kid lives up to his nomenclature, crafting a series of subtly dark grooves - under which rages a barely contained elemental storm threatening to engulf the track itself and any who stand in its way. like the very best techno, it articulates emotions that haven t been named yet, and more besides. on the flip, label head honcho matt o brien s house re-interpretation twists time and space by melding a lulling groove with devastating offbeat rave stabs that spit and judder to a screaming crescendo. managing to be deep, dubbed out and savage simultaneously, listening to this track is like bearing witness to a poltergeist breaching our dimension. strictly limited to 500 copies only, no re-press!