After the success of Gti008 8ball is back with another jungle excursion, although this time they have gone for the more smoother side of the genre. On the flip side is a complete reworking from the house legend that is MR G. After pumping the parts through his MPC, MR G has put a hard breaky house dub together, which should hit the mark with a lot of people.
The elusive Unslaved returns for his second release for Leicester-based imprint Grade 10. Bound by no genre, Screen Drain sits somewhere between UK 2-Step, Grime, Dancehall, Dub and Jungle. Mystical pads and saxophones float and evolve over shufflely, skittering hats, and thick wobbly basslines. Poe takes you through a dreamlike soundscape, in classic unslaved style.
House pioneer Mr G shakes things up is with another remix for the Grade 10 family. A hard, uptempo take on Unlsaved's Screen Drain thats been ran through the MPC spitting out a version thats been given that signature Mr G treatment.
3-track hand-stamped 12" in hand-screened printed sleeve.
01. Screen Drain
02. Poe
03. Screen Drain (Mr G's RetroGrade Dub (feat. Mr. G)
8ball is part of the Grade10 record label who has been popping up on Radar Radio and NTS Radio over the last few years. This is 8balls first release proper on Grade10 and it comes hot on the heels of the All You See Is Crime In The City cassette. 8balls rare appearances behind the decks have included Outlook Festival and Broken Sonics at Corsica Studios.
This Ep contain five tunes which cover ambient, jungle and hardcore. They all come ladened with overdubbed compression and bins rattling bass apart from Sepia is a jungle tune with only the synths left in. Tun3 and Maker are both short intense blasts, while Stages is classic jungle and So Good is reminiscent of late 91 hardcore.
