URBAN ELECTRO PROJECT / 4 Part EP from Beat Assassins - Press & Design

Electro productions on breakbeat drum patterns, enhanced by urban vocals: This is the unique sound of Beat Assassins. Imagine taking that sound, creating four exciting tracks and delivering the parts to be remixed by some of the most exciting new producers in selected dance genres. Well this is precisely what Beat Assassins have done and the end result is the Urban Electro Project (UEP).

UEP is a 4-part series of Beat Assassins’ tracks plus remixes from the Assassins’ favourite producers within the genres of bassline house, drum n’ bass, breakbeat and fidget house. It is a cross-pollination of new talent unified by one concept; Beat Assassins’ urban electro style.

Dan Arborise - Of Tide & Trail - Album & Press & Design

In difficult times people immerse themselves in the magic of mellow music; in slumberous, sun-spun soundtracks; in collections of exploratory, elegant songs. Summer 2009 is the right time for a record inspired by John Martyn's folk-jazz, Brian Eno's woozy electronica, and the languor of Nick Drake's delicate vocals. Dan Arborise has made this record and called it ‘Of Tide and Trail’.

Fast foward a year from the release of the FabricLive CD, Caspa and the Dub Police have found their home at Fabric, holding down a bi-monthly night alongside DJ Hype & Pascal's True Playaz residency at this prestigious nightclub. With an album on the horizon, aswell as other major projects including a mix compilation and a remix for EMI, Caspa shows no signs slowing down, and 2009 is set be the year of the ghost.

2009 is shaping up to be another busy year for Roni with the release of a new Reprazent album, a new Roni Size album, a Reprazent tour of Australia, North America, the UK and Europe as well as committing to his usual packed schedule of DJ shows

"There's an emerging scene of bands that get the recipe just right and Bristol-based Smerins Anti-Social Club are one of the finest." Venue Magazine

Roni Size/Reprazent's New Forms was a benchmark for not just the drum 'n' bass genre that it leapt from, but for all types of electronic music.

Released a decade ago in 1997, the album's title was apt with a sound that surpassed any previous drum 'n' bass efforts and brought the genre to a whole new audience. After catapulting its creators to music's top table, the crowning achievement was winning the Mercury Prize in the same year, beating the likes of Radiohead, Primal Scream and two of Size's dance music peers, Chemical Brothers and Prodigy.

To mark this anniversary, Roni Size has returned to re-edit New Forms. "The first generation of heads who were there with the rise of Reprazent & Roni Size will be able to reminisce over the last decade with the classics Brown Paper Bag, Share The Fall & Heroes. The generation of those who missed it will be able to appreciate the album with the new coat of armour I have added to the original tracks. I think fans of the original album always appreciated what we did with the technology of the day. This latest version shows what is possible now."

Three brand new tracks will also be included, including the single Don't Hold Back, which manages to not only sound like a perfect bedfellow for the original thirteen tracks on New Forms but is also thoroughly contemporary. Not surprising perhaps, considering the timeless quality that Roni Size/Reprazent captured through the likes of Heroes, Share The Fall and the top 20 single Brown Paper Bag. New single, Don't Hold Back will be released on March 17th, two weeks before the reissue of New Forms.

Clipz Ugly & Offline

The brand new white label from Clipz's Audio Zoo has landed!! and it's
exclusively available from www.audiozooshop.co.uk

‘Ugly’ on the A-side sees Clipz bringing back the talents of Hollie G
to lay down an angst-ridden vocal over the spaced-out intro of future
synths and pads before a monumental drop that should come with a
parental guidance sticker. Mayhem then ensues and we’re carried away on
a b-line switching jump-up journey.

On the flip the Bristol boy comes on strong again with another bruising
stepper in the shape of ‘Offline’ with some dirty trademark bass moans
and frenetic beats. One for the 4am massive.