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2024, 12″ EP, Exit Records.
dBridge and Forest Drive West, both titans of the deep halftime drum & bass niche, continue to collaboratively feel out their more recent techno curveball-outings on their latest for the label-pinnacle of bass music, Exit Records. Following hot on the heels of a string of producers who’ve abandoned overt attachments to genre constraints – sonically insisting on the fact that dance music is dance music, period, no matter the fetishisms of formal microgenres – this ninth edition in the label’s ‘VS’ series makes for a serious reassessment of several sounds. From the opening broken UK techno mad-maximalizations of ‘Death Race 3000’ to the closing chugouts of ‘Spitefull Lips’, this split EP is a worthy addition to the canon of genre-bending floor-steamers.
