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The third release for Toronto, Canada's Sweet Sensi Records! FeYder On the A-Side brings you a classic reFix of '54-46 Was My Number' - An amen smasher sure to smash the dancefloor. For the B-Side DJ Clear gives you a jungle sound-clash style tune for your arsenal.

Skeleton Recordings are proud to announce the release of the SKELETON XXV PROJECT to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the label which originally launched in 1992. This is a five part collectors edition to celebrate 25 years of Skeleton Recordings.

Volumes 01 to 04 sleeve artwork when put together will form a big piece of artwork of the revamped original Skeleton Recordings logo that will look good on any wall. Volume 05 will be a picture disc. The full digital album will only become available once all five volumes have been released.

The project has taken just over 12 months to put together and is definitely something for the collectors. It has been generating quite a buzz within the underground circuit the closer it gets to release date and has been getting some really good support from the likes of Bailey, Storm and Ray Keith to name a few.

Skeleton Recordings are proud to announce the release of the SKELETON XXV PROJECT to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the label which originally launched in 1992. This is a five part collectors edition to celebrate 25 years of Skeleton Recordings.

Volumes 01 to 04 sleeve artwork when put together will form a big piece of artwork of the revamped original Skeleton Recordings logo that will look good on any wall. Volume 05 will be a picture disc. The full digital album will only become available once all five volumes have been released.

The project has taken just over 12 months to put together and is definitely something for the collectors. It has been generating quite a buzz within the underground circuit the closer it gets to release date and has been getting some really good support from the likes of Bailey, Storm and Ray Keith to name a few.

Logical direction recordings first vinyl release features two fresh (official) remixes.

* Logical direction returns with their first Beatz ep vinyl release. A 4 track ep, with the likes of Verb, Dj Fox, Drum Cypha, Tim Reaper, Mpathy, Zebedee. Keeping it true to the original sound of jungle DnB.

imited Edition custom stickered white labels - 1 year after the release of Von D's 'Daydreaming' album sees the release of the much anticipated remixes and the first producer to step up is France's Niveau Zero (Hench, Ad Noiseam, Lutetia) who tackles 'Maximum Boost' featuring the vocal talents of Foreign Beggars - A truly HYPE remix smashing up the dancefloors right now. On the flip Brighton's Riskotheque (Ninja Tune, Disfigured Dubz, Love Sick) comes correct with a superb remix of 'You're My', a Deep, Heavy rework garnering 15k+ streams on soundcloud, this is certainly a track for the heads. As ever, limited vinyl so don't sleep on this one.

The third instalment of our Amenizer series continues in the same vein as the previous two, with a generous serving of every junglist's favourite breakbeat, on a no frills white label vinyl, with an undercover artist providing the ammunition.
Jedi Hi-Fi is an alias of one of our core Foundation X family members, and if you listen keenly it shouldn't be too hard to work out who is responsible for these four cuts, with a trademark jungle sound which is heavily influenced by 80's Jamaican dancehall sound systems and 70's dub production.....
REGGAE REGGAE SAUCE - As the vocal says 'Serious Damage' and that's what this track will do no questions asked.....
SOUND CHECK 1 - Dubwise from start to finish, the signature sounds ofJedi Hi-Fi are evident throughout from the top to the very last drop. SOUND CHECK 2 - Jazzy intro vibes soon give way to a head nod amen patternand Creation Discoteq vocal samples bounce in between the beats and bass.
PROBLEMS - The final track of the EP sees some expert echo chamber work.

DJ Dlux of 'Brain Records' fame, emerging from the Jungle scene in the early 90's alongside Persian Prince, Bizzy B & T.D.K, proudly shows his roots with this exclusive must have collector's 10 inch of Jungle Goodness! A)'Interferance' a classic golden era Jungle Tune with Dancehall samples from the 'those days' 'sound tapes' we na waaan get tooo dark' being cleverly used over a Heavy Bassline, Frantic drum choppage, Time Stretching & Vocal Infusion that says Its too much for me'!

B) 'False Alarm' a hard stepping, drum twisting, Reggae infused Jungle Riddim with super lush strings at the intro. This is Jungle at its best! Ring de Alarm - which Sound aah dead' Listen carefully, you can hear the 'Amiga', being put to good use by this talented Artist, Producer, DJ, Engineer! Don't sleep on this Limited x 100 Press 'collector's' 10 inch Jungle Vinyl.

Off-world Colonies is a label set up by myself, martianMan to release tunes under two aliases, DJ Gaff & Cityspeak. This is another outlet for me to continue being creative. While the concept is heavily influenced by the film Blade Runner, it is also influenced by the industrial future that most science fiction depicts, While remembering the music from the past were are able to shape the future.

A1 - DJ Gaff - Technology is a soap opera in a tune. It's a journey into the future with it's feet firmly planted in the past. From the beats to the bass to the strings, through the switches and changes and programming - this tune is one that I'm quite proud of. I hope you enjoy it too.

A2 - DJ Gaff & Cityspeak is the one I call Digital Tune' in my head because it reminds me a bit of his style. Layered breaks and deep bass are moving right along with nothing to stop them. The cool breakdown at the last drop is a nice touch, I think.

B1 - DJ Gaff - Dream Mechanics is very much influenced by the reinforced sound that I remember. Donnie Darko samples are a nice touch and the percussion the comes in on the last stretch before the end is what sets this off.

B2 - Cityspeak - Skinjob is an old school style amen jungle tune. That's just about all i need to say. If you like old amen jungle then i'm sure you're going to love this.

4 track EP from DJ Jedi featuring three authentic 92-93 style hardcore/jungle tracks, plus bonus old skool scratch samples.

REPRESSED !!
This is the third AKO Beatz release; DJ Stretch has collected four of the highest pedigree, contemporary jungle and drum & bass producers to rework his heavyweight 1996 jump-up classic 'Hungry Tiger'.
London based Serum sets the ball rolling by overlaying the trademark kung-fu flick dialogue with stepping breaks, ominous horn sounds and fierce bass growls. Next up the Dublin junglist, Ricky Force provides a bass heavy, roller with lashings of chop-socky, fighting effects.
Foundation X label founder, Skitty drops his thundering amen led refix with elastic bass twinges and additional Reese throbs, while Tim Reaper closes things off with an tearingly intense amen-break workout with some serious choppage and spacey FX going on.
Altogether the 'Hungry Tiger Remixes' provides four essential drum & bass updates of a seminal piece of jungle history for 2015. Don't sleep on this one!

REPRESSED !!

Gunmen is the cooperative project of junglist Tony Anthem and PsychoFreud. They are proud to present the first of many tunes to be released on their own imprint. First up are the dancefloor fillers Chase The Devil and So Mi Like It. Amen!

Phuture-T dials up Dub and Drumfunk from the samples of Greenleaf's New Orleans influenced track, Forward Motion. The beats are more broken and the effect delays are longer. The signature interview recording has been chopped and used as downbeats on the progression changes.

With melodic and rolling percussion, Earl Grey creates a cheerful vibe to start the Ominous Maze remix. The intro leads straight into the body of the track when the contrabass becomes the dominant instrument making the tone tougher. The drum breaks transition through several change ups and syncopated edits.

Metro gives MHC a new treatment with extra field recordings and an extended break down. The Jungle influence is stronger with bigger, funkier subs. Classic break beats are layered with sound effects and noises all supporting the main rhythm of the bassline.

For our 4th release on Supercharger we are welcome to welcome Pastaman, Omen Breaks and Vocoda for their Supercharger debuts alongside Supercharger resident jungle badman Simply Dread. 4 slices of jungle fire to mash up any dancefloor...

This release is VINYL ONLY and limited to 300 copies...

Asbo Records inaugurates a series of 12" releases celebrating the iconic mid 90s jungle label Joker Records with this 3 Piece Vinyl L.P that sees 12 classics from Joker founders The Dream Team get 12 contemporary but still eminently junglist remixes. For the uninitiated

Norwegian producer Tony Anthem is well known and respected for his solo work as well as his contributions to both Gunman and the legendary Drum & Bass dup Future Prophecies... For his latest offering, Tony teams up with London based vocalist Doctor for a couple of Jungle flavoured dance-floor slayers in the form of 'I Love It' & 'Tears Of Mine'
'I Love It' is an uplifting and bass heavy dedication to the beautiful art form we all love... Music.
Jungle vibes and sweet vocals make this one a perfect fit for the airwaves!
'Tears of Mine' again utilises Doctor's sublime vocals and Tony's rolling beats to full effect as the duo come with a grittier image this time of inner city life. Pure FIRE!
The combination of Tony's lazar sharp production and Doctor's awesome voice make this a must play on the both the dancefloor and the FM's all over the globe!

Co-creative mastermind behind the Rupture movement, Double O finally returns for his first home release since 2015's Wisen Up EP. With one of the most immediately recognisable sounds in jungle today, this four track EP is a testament to how effortlessly Double O is able to conjure a diverse range of musical landscapes, all unified by his distinctive style. The Border EP is a mix of dance floor toughness and heady vibes that could only be produced by Rupture's own Double O.

Next Phase Records is proud to present their second foray into vinyl with this four track EP of intricate and emotive Drum and Bass. It features exclusive new music from Moving Shadow pioneer DJ Trax as well as Enjoy, Earl Grey, Infest and Drummotive. To The Generation will be available on red vinyl with a sleeve designed by label curator Robbert Peperkamp.

On the A side Infest and Drummotive incorporate ballistic amens, reggae vocals and skank out basslines to forge a dutty slice of jungle fit for any dance floor.

Earl Grey crafts sophisticated drum patterns around heavenly chords and inspirational dialogue before launching into an accomplished section of breakbeat science.

The B side kicks off with DJ Trax sourcing inspiration from the big warehouse anthems of 1994. Soulful vocals and melodic amen patterns combine to form a joyous summer anthem. In contrast Enjoys contribution is menacing and sinister, much like the animal it's named after. Brooding effects and ominous pads help to create a sense of fearful apprehension.

Myor Massiv proudly welcome FX and Worldwide Epidemic to the family. On the A-side the Lord of Darkness himself, Demonic Possession head honcho FX, does what he does best: dropping darkstyle bombs. Gritty Amens and howling horror pads, juxtaposed with a rather cheeky 80s pop sample. Mum's the word. On the flip, Worldwide Epidemic perfectly threads the thin, imaginary line between jungle techno and hardcore proper on Anthropomorphic, a 7 minute 4x4 epos that keeps on building and building, leading up to a synth laden climax of mid 90s squat rave proportions.

martianMan returns with 4 jungle influenced tracks. Echos' is an amen science excursion. Plenty of emotion carries this tune through your sound system and into your ears. After the dark beginning you are taken to the land of beautiful pads. Finally breaking you down at the end with some sound clash MCing before moving into the final, DJ friendly outro.

Metaluna' is a journey like martians used to make back in the days before man. After the Dune sample intro you are taken to a funky bass underneath a most filthy break. Then you are taken to some both dark and moody pads. Then without expecting it towards what seems to be the end, an amen break comes in and the tune seems to come alive again. Vocal samples from the 1955 film This Island Earth' come in here and you're journey is complete with the original filthy break reappearing with new synth darkness accompanied by a techno bleeping' loop.

Vikings' is an apache onslaught with a friendly reminder to never mess with Jack. The breakdown makes you screaming inside with content, only to be glazed over with the funky break that is a bit of a drumfunk vibe until it reaches the final ache outro.

Rain Falls' uses a sample Frankie Knuckles Rain Falls' tune and puts it under an amen. This is a chill tune for the most part, with comfortable darkness pads coming in to let you know it's going to change. When it reaches the 129 mark the vibe changes from niceness and semi darkness to a stoned out dark vibe that lasts to the end. When the last break comes in prepare for your eyes to pop, your skin to explode, and then everybody is dead. ENJOY.

Seekersinternational sends dub into another dimension, a place where the laws of physics appear irrelevant. Formerly solid structures are made improbable and surreal, songs become dizzying, recursive mazes. But for all this weirdness, the Canadian producer has generally hung onto dub's loved-up feel. This cassette is different.

Appearing on Japan's Diskotopia, the RaggaPreservationSociety EP traces dub's sonics as they developed into ragga jungle. The manic style is sunk deep in the dance music consciousness. Hearing it get a cubist makeover is a bit like having familiar memories smashed up and reassembled as crazy paving: in other words, disorientating. Crowds of sampled ragga chatter vie for attention, repitched chords and cartoonish basslines hint at two (or more) different keys, and breakbeats and delay trails meet in gruesome pileups. Structures are fragmented and, thanks to the release's mixtape sequencing, it can be hard to tell what is "track" and what is "transition." Most are probably a bit of both.

The chaos is glorious, but the EP is made extra special by the moments when unexpected order emerges. Somehow, several of these tracks are, well, catchy. The best come in a run on the A-side: "SoundDedication"'s sliced piano chords and delirious chipmunk coos, into "DanceGwaan(EazeUp!)," whose skittish breakbeat is cut with tender synth chords, and then "NoCompetition"'s quiet storm sweetness, aided by twinkling Rhodes and a female vocal. On the flipside, "ChannelTwo(MurderousDub)" is just as good. A sliced vocal and bassline form an improbably singable hook, before tumbling into a big old sentimental piano breakdown. Or perhaps the word "breakdown" is redundant on this marvellously broken release.

Dancefloor raggatek, effcient and dancefloor to death offering original singers performance and heavy kicker composition : the sound is full of energy and the cut is total LOUD !

Cut by Simon The Echgange & mastering by Henry Heatwave.

Limited 100 copies White label - Happy Hardecore when played 45 RPM... and meant for that... a crazy SHOOP style ^^ And Ghetto sound deep from the underground... here recorded at 33 5... should be 45 /00... and then turn really too ghetto for the internet ^^ Happy Tribecore experience:)

LIMITED REPRESS ON BLACK VINYL

Launching his own new label, CVLT MUSIC, Zomby presents an exclusive Record Store Day reissue of his classic 2008 debut album, now available on vinyl for the very first time. When first released on Actress' Werk Discs imprint, 'Where Were U in 92 ' was instantly hailed as the rave album that was never made in the early '90s, a tumbling anthemic barrage of lost mixtape masterpieces from an artist who was starting to take the electronic dance scene by storm. However, 'Where Were U in 92 ' is not just some facsimilie-style homage to the past, taking a firm grip of the energy and sheer rushing dynamics of early hardcore breakbeat, and placing those sounds and styles smack in the centre of right now. This new edition is strictly limited to 1000 copies, pressed on vivid yellow wax.

* In the midst of his recently accrued status as a 'Masterchef' finalist, long-standing Dispatch stalwart Survival returns to the label with a highly anticipated new solo album, 'Take It Back'.

* Inspired by working with Script on a Metalheadz album as 'SCAR' last summer, Survival went straight back into the studio, with a renewed hunger to focus on his own solo material.

* 'Take It Back' represents the first Survival album since his 2009 debut on Exit Records, re-engaging with his core sound and this sampler demonstrates both sides of his sound today.

* Harking back to the 90s, 'Original Silencer 2017' revisits the breaks and samples on one of his first ever releases, before collaborating with Break for the inimitable stepper 'Catalyst', another stone-cold classic from the duo and a track exclusive to the album sampler.

* With a fresh outlook on his artform, with exciting plans to link his music and his cooking, Survival takes things back to the source, rekindling with his most celebrated DnB moniker.

7th Storey Projects is immensely honoured to present a new, limited edition collaboration EP from two Dutch masters, FFF & Coco Bryce - Double Dragon EP.

FFF (Myor Massiv, Criterion Records, Diamond Life) needs no introduction as he has been blazing a trail on the jungle and breakcore scene for nearly 20 years now - so we are truly honoured to add him to our roster of talent. Here he contributes both tracks to the A side of the EP, the dark, amenistic roller 'The Return', and the epic 'Krisp Biscuit'.

The B side sees a welcome return to 7th Storey Projects for Myor Massiv head honcho, Coco Bryce. After the success of his limited 10" press - Raid/JBB on the label earlier this year - here he teams up with FFF for their first true collaborative, co-produced track to see vinyl - 'Double Dragon'. One word sums this track up - DARK! Full of horror film samples, butchers block beats and menancing hoovers! The EP is rounded up with Coco Bryce's solo track 'The Mother Goddess', a tune which has been doing the rounds on dubplate for a while and built up a firm favourite status with those that know!

Globex Corp are back with a bang! Featuring four untitled killer cuts from Tim Reaper & Dwarde, with guest productions from Worldwide Epidemic and Dev/Null. The second volume in the series picks up where the first volume left off, with tunes covering a gammut of jungle and hardcore styles, from deep amen rollers, to dark 1993 style tearups!