The XX - Infinity (Bachelors Of Science Remix)

Okyish, inoffensive winners of 2010's Mercury Prize The xx have provided some awesome raw materials for other producers to get their teeth into. We've had Four Tet's incredible remix of VCR as premiered at this year's Bestival, and also San Francisco D&B duo Bachelors of Science reworking Infinity into a lovely deep liquid track.

Beautiful stuff, once again proving that D&B makes everything better.

Break - Resistance Promo Mix

Break is one of those producers who has a uniquely perfect sound, and he's gotta be up there with Calibre as a true master of deep, dark liquid D&B. If you didn't grab Symmetry back in 2008, you really must get on it.

Anyway, Break's second album, "Resistance" is about to drop (28th of this month apparently) on Symmetry Recordings, and you know it's gonna be big, especially with the likes of Calyx and Teebee and Survival on board.
Break has released a frightfully heavy promo mix, which you can hear here, or for more Resistance hype, check out the album preview:



Indeed.

Black Sun Empire - Lights And Wires

Hear the mighty Black Sun roar!

If you haven't already done so, grab the Lights And Wires promo mix here:
http://soundcloud.com/fabric/black-sun-empire-lights-and-wires-minimix

Good to hear BSE sounding razor sharp as ever. They haven't lost that dark, techy edge. Lights And Wires is out right now on BSE Recordings and is perfect for upsetting the neighbours on bleak winter nights.


Nasty.

Original Sin & Taxman - Penamana

In Penamana, Original Sin and Taxman have produced a work of such challenging complexity as to defy conventional critical observation. What on the surface appears to be a standard piece of grinding jump up gives way through further inspection to reveal deeper layers of social analysis, drawing together themes as diverse as Zen Buddhism, proto-Marxist commentary and mathematical constructivism, built around a central foundation that questions both the listener's dependence on and rejection of anonymity in the modern age of communication.

A stand out composition indeed, and one that highlights the fascinating and increasingly prevalent dichotomy between jump up dubstep and modern drumstep.

Penamana EP is out now on Playaz:
A. Casino
B. Penamana
C. Take No More
D. Like This

Metrik - T1000

I love liquid D&B as much as the next person, but it's great to hear Metrik putting out something a little more horrible and apocalyptic.

T1000 really does go for that "Dropships brace for impact, planetfall in 30 seconds etc" sound. Out on Viper at the end of November as part of Metrik's Departure EP.

Which reminds me, where's Telemetrik been at for the past year?

My Lightyear was easily one of the best albums to come out of 2008, but he seems to have been a bit quiet since 2009...