Set to release a sparkling new single on Alignment’s new project Realign, Manchester-based Pattern might be an unfamiliar name to most but ‘Draft’s intricate, Jungle-infused crystal clarity is a glowing debut by anyone’s standards.
The Crescent had really hit the floor running in 2012, with a trio of exceptional releases from a collection of key players - including Mode, Troy Gunner, eleven8 and Clarity - who reside under the loose UK-electronica umbrella term as it stands today.
UK-based label Terabyte are drawing in all sorts of arctic coldness from St. Petersburg with their latest release from promising newcomer Neumax.
For those of you with a soft spot for all things synth- and Jungle- (or more specifically ‘Juke’) related, this one’s for you. Italian-born Memory9 is ready to release ‘The Abyss Within’ on his own imprint Mnemonic Dojo, an exciting amalgamation of sounds and styles old and new, with Om Unit and H-Sik on remix duties. We caught up with the producer ahead of the release who gave us his Five Steps from the influence of Warp’s Squarepusher, through to the fire-sale of his previous EP and his prolific use of old synthesisers throughout his music.
Fresh out of the Manchester hotpot of forward-thinking talent, AnD are coming in with some seriously desolate beats in 2013.
