Individual Schallplatten & CDs

Review: Darkmaster was an early alias of the now esteemed Dom & Roland, and now, in the words of the artist, "that part of me now makes a comeback." This new EP contains a repress of one of the most sought-after tracks from the Darkmaster single, an unreleased amen version of the first ever Dom & Roland track on Moving Shadow, 'Other Planets', plus a remix of 'Intastella Jazz', featuring a much heavier bassline than the original. Assuming this isn't an intentional mistake, the opening track is like no other drum & bass track we've ever heard, blurring two distinct amen lines into a clustered antinomy of tempo and sense, while the inverse laxations, also sporting 'The Way You Feel', provide aural glimpses of the underside of the artist's duskier works.

Review: Dom of Dom & Roland (Roland being a machine) has remained a drum and bass visionary since the mid -90s. He remains notably the only solo artist to have scored award-winning albums on both Metalheadz and Moving Shadow; in recent years, he's since gone on to record various full-length records, such as a recent album on Overshadow earlier this year. His collaborations range far and wide and have included the likes of Optical, Amon Tobin and more recently Noisia; though his outernational performance style has attracted many more such pioneers along the way, including the likes of Art of Noise, David Bowie, Laurent Garnier, Goldie and Clyde Stubblefield. Now delivering his first EP 'The Stormfront', we're met with a four-hit haul of stonking sound-crushes, future-bleak halftime hack n' slashers, from the opening meteorological portents of 'Stormy Waters' to the closing, impish weirdo snaggles of 'Hallucination'.