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𝙊𝙣 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙪𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙, 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙚𝙙 𝟵𝙩𝙝 𝙫𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙢𝙚, 𝙙𝙪𝙗𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙥’𝙨 𝙛𝙡𝙖𝙜𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙨 𝙫𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙣 𝙗𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙗𝙞𝙣 𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙨: 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧é, 𝟵𝟲 𝘽𝙖𝙘𝙠, 𝙃𝙤𝙙𝙜𝙚, 𝙎𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠, 𝙄𝙉𝙑𝙏, 𝘽𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙈., 𝘿𝟭, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙖.

Only a short decade since ‘Tempa Allstars Vol. 8’, the OG label casts an ear over fresh tunes by longtime stalwarts and fresh legs alike, while also opening its remit farther than ever to Kenya’s Slikback, Parisian bassbin mistress Beatrice M., and Miami’s INVT. It’s safe to report that everyone trades in guttural levels of subbass and ruggedest drums in a classic style and pattern, but with distance travelled since the ‘00s/10s marked in the lean toward precision tooled technoid detailing and prevailing Afro-Latin accentuation.

Fair to say D1 provides the veteran ballast with a signature bit of razor cut rhythm and darkside pressure in ‘Oni’, a clear standout tying with a thread of brilliant drops on Tempa since 2004’s peerless ‘Crack Bong’. Following the timeline, post-dubstep/UKF guy Hodge reps that wave with the crunchy rolige of ‘Sway’, whilst the rest tends to a new skool dwelling in dubstep and bass music’s long shadow, from the tweaked-out electro top lines of 96 Back harking to early Skream on ‘Catford Jewelzz’, thru Kenya’s Slikback on the powerful torque of ‘Sea’, to the Latinate friction of Miami’s INVT on ‘Fantasy Dub’, or Beatrice M. & Jan Loup’s crafty take on classic templates, resonating with DMZ thru SP:MC or 2562.