| The second vinyl outing from the inimitable Trouble & Bass empire comes from Nottingham's Blackfinger, who has recently been producing some of the best underground UK-style garage, bassline, dubstep and funky that's coming out of this island right now. He's already made a name with his 2007 hit 'Mistreated' on Rossi B and Luca's More 2 Da Floor label, and has also remixed Trouble & Bass artists Little Jinder, Rebecca Knight, Ramzi and more. The EP's title cut 'Fearless' is a full-on collision of firing Bmore breaks, tear-out bassline energy and wobbly dubsteppism that's tailor-made for club murderation, followed by four diverse diversions on 'UMF (Up Middle Finger)', lead out by Blackfinger's original take, a stroppy and demanding exercise in idioitically simplistic sub-bass and 4/4 beat looping. Stepping up on 'UMF' remix duties are HeavyFeet, Supra 1 and DZ. Manchester's HeavyFeet come strong with a bass-laden electro house remix similar in style to Sinden or Herve, hard on the vocal edits, even harder on the kick drum. Supra1's rub mixes elements of funky house, bassline and soul into a more smoothed out and rolling version, and then putting the tin lid on it DZ drops a huge high-impact dubstep excursion. If Reso's 'Can't Beat Em' struck you as a little deep, then Blackfinger is your new best friend, and a name you'll be hearing hear more and more of in 2009. |
