Brown Bread - Mak & Pasteman

Hailing from Leeds, the Mak & Pasteman boys frequented Subdub often in their younger years which ended up heavily influencing their sound. Forthcoming in November on Naked Naked, they've smashed it once again with this heavy bass, tech-house beauty.

Shadow Child

Shadow Child, real name Simon Neale, has been dominating alotta air time on my ipod recently. Having moved on from 'Dave Spoon' to break the creative boundaries associated with the name, Shadow Child's bass heavy tech house has been tearing up dancefloors all over the shop. This new project burst on the scene with the Dirtybird release 'String Thing' in early 2012 and has gone on to prove the change of name was no mistake. The uplifting trademark sound born of Shadow Child is instantly recognisable and annoyingly infectious in tracks like '23' feat. Tymer, his remix of 'Annie's Song' and obviously the huge Hot Natured remix of 'Reverse Skydiving'. Most recently and possibly my favourite to date is the euphoric remix of Movement's 'Feel Real' with stripped down and seductive vocals complemented perfectly with the aforementioned distinguishable, deep bassline which has cemented him in the proud place of my new obsession. I salute you Shadow Child/Simon/Dave.

Dusky

Oh godddddddddd I actually can't get enough of London based Alfie Granger-Howell and Nick Harriman with their bass-heavy, ambient, soulful, jackin deep house grooves. It began for me with their remix of Justin Martin's 'Don't Go' and continued with an unhealthy obsession with the vocal-heavy and atmospheric 'Nobody Else' on Will Saul's label Aus. Along came a string of addictive, chunky house tracks such as 'Vanishing Point' and 'Truth Capital T' and then, they brought out the big guns with their remix of Close (aka Will Saul's) 'My Way'. In true Dusky style, the boys add an incomprehensible amount of depth to this already stellar track making it more dance-floor friendly with heavier and more hypnotic instrumentation.

The Gettup - Eats Everything & Justin Martin

One of the finest collabs of the year so far, Dirtybird superstars have come together to produce this stormer of a record on Claude Von Stroke's label. In spite of the fact that Eats Everything and Justin Martin come from opposite sides of the world (West Coasts of the UK and US respectively) it hasn't stopped them being a collaborative force to be reckoned with, having brought us 'Feather Fight' earlier this year and with a full-length album in the pipeline for 2014. 'The Gettup' boasts a catchy chopped up vocal sample that builds into a storm of bass that will have any listener out the door and on their way to de clube in seconds.

Ex$penses - Fion

Fion is another youngsta (although at 22 a pensioner compared to the teens doing the rounds at the moment) with a love of experimenting with blending garage beats and bass with 90s house, and that's exactly what he's given us in this edit of Warren G's 'I Want It All'. Dirty bassline. Filthy.

You Know You Like It (Skanky Remix) - AlunaGeorge

Another barely legal producer hailing from Norf London, Skanky has got me hooked on his bassy garage tunes, particularly this one sampling the now well-known vocals from AlunaGeorge's 'You Know You Like It'. Do I? Yes.

Stylish Cadaver (Bwana Remix) - HxdB

Sampling vocals from Aaliyah's 'Rock the Boat', Bwana smashes the remix of Canadian HdxB's tune.

Stalking Redlight at Cable

For those of you that know me, you will probably be aware of the fact that I am something of a Redlight enthusiast. Fanatic? Maybe. Stalker? Who can say. What I do know is that he absolutely smashed Detonate Indoor Festival in Nottingham in May and so it was that my love for him was born. When I found out he was playing Cable in August for ‘Loud Noise’s’ 1^st birthday there was no way I wasn’t going to go, especially as Cable is a banging venue, so I gathered the troops and bought myself a ticket before anyone could object. We arrived to Addison Groove blasting This Is It and immediately got our skank on to his acid basslines. After a couple more bevs, me getting vommed on, and some serious sweating, it was time for Sir Redlight to do his thing. Safe to say we both lived up to the expectations of him smashing it and me going absolutely nuts, a particular highlight being the madness post-Lost In Your Love drop. What I love most about Bristolian Hugh Pescod (yes, I know his name), is that he moved away from being labelled and confined by a genre by leaving drum’n’bass productions behind so that he could create his own fusion of bass driven housey beats . Obviously I was devastated when his set finished and could only be consoled by chasing him down for a photo which is actually still my phone background. The atmos somewhat declined after he popped off which was reflected in the emptying out of room 1 for Dark Sky - a bit too dubby for our high spirits. A nice surprise was how New York Transit Authority packed it out again and absolutely brought the roof down for the last couple of hours, an even nicer surprise was Redlights reply to my tweet as we left the building which I proceeded to brag about for days after. Yeeaa he definitely fancies me. 

Takeover - ViLLΛGE

Slightly shocked to find out this outrageously talented producer is from Romania (!?) with a sound so evocative of the UK underground. I can't get enough of his ambient, bass driven tunes - this song absolutely took over my summer...no pun intended.