Mix: Demon - Physics Mix

His first solo 12" since starting the label two years ago, the 'Physics EP' sees Demon showcase a new maturity as he experiments across each cut with a different balance of bass, drums and midrange. Lead track 'Gravity' weighs in heavily with a soft-moulded sub lending the track's melodic drive, whilst 'Morning Glory' is a more characteristic dose of the kind of coarse mid-range upon which the label was founded. 'Molecule', meanwhile, sees the drums take the rein in driving out rolling rhythms, occasionally cut through with a clapped snare.



To support the release, the man himself hit us up with a 40 minute mix of tough material from the extended MUD family, which is available to stream and download below.

The 'Physics EP' [MUV008] will be released on the 16th of September 2013, in 12" vinyl and digital formats, and is available to pre-order now from the Macabre Unit Surus store.


Download: Demon - Physics Mix



Tracklist:

Catacombs & Knowledge - Old Town (District Remix) [Dub]
Slaven - Insurgent [Forthcoming MUD]
Biome - Infected [Dub]
Fifi Rong - Over You (Dcult Remix) [Ditto Music]
Demon - Physics [Forthcoming MUV]
Biome - Function [Dub]
Dcult - Red Matter [Dub]
Demon - Parachutes [Forthcoming MUV]
Rekta - Wavescape [MUD022]
Demon - Morning Glory [Forthcoming MUV]
Arkotypes - Panthera [Dub]
Occult - Replicant [Dub]
Geode - Jade [Smoke 024]
Biome - Wonderland VIP [Dub]
Demon - Break Point - [Dub]
Feonix - Firefly [Forthcoming MUD]
Nebula - Abraxas [Dub]
Biome - Genesis [Dub]
Piezo - Discipline [Dub]
Versa - Footsteps In Tibet [Forthcoming MUV]

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Competition: Win a hand-stamped test press of MUV005 by Catacombs & Demon, 2 Hedmuk T-shirts and a MUD X The Tribes T-shirt

For Catacombs' second outing on wax we're once again giving the opportunity to bag a test press ahead of the full release, and this time we're going to be giving away three T-shirts too: one Hedmuk X Thelem, one MUD X The Tribes, and one Hedmuk X Generic Greeting.

The release itself sets a new benchmark for the MUV imprint, and for Catacombs too as 'Music Mi Luv' and 'Badman Culture Pt. 2' show the young producer relishing a newfound energy and pleasure in rhythmic expansion, with the former's perfectly-levelled bob and weave and the latter's quick step and dark techno aesthetic. That both beats have been go-to tunes for two of dubstep's foundational DJs, Hatcha and Youngsta, is a testament to the balance they strike between defining a current sound and giving a nod to its future. 'Cursed' and 'Searcher', both collaborations with label head Demon, combine Catacombs enormous kicks and precise sense of atmosphere and movement with Demon's penchant for razor-sharp Reese basslines.

To be in with a chance of winning, simply head over to the Hedmuk Facebook Page, share this image publicly, and leave a comment as to which size of T-shirt you'd like to receive. The competition will close on Friday the 19th of April, on which date a winner will be selected at random by an independent third party and then announced via Facebook and Twitter.









Catacombs - MUV005 is set for release in late April/early May, with 'Searcher' available as a bonus track on the digital release.

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Review: Biome & Demon - Incubus / Symmetry [MUV002]

The second vinyl release from the ever-consistent Macabre Unit imprint comes from label staple, and arguably one of the best producers to emerge from the UK in recent years, Biome working in collaboration with the man behind the M.U.D/M.U.V movement, Demon.

Lead track 'Incubus' is a beat with a split personality, almost nodding its head to its origins in the imaginations of two separate producers. Gliding in on airy atmospherics, an emotive Eastern vocal sample and a lead synth-line that would be just as at home atop a trance anthem; the groove is easy and euphoric. A little under two minutes in, however, and a gunshot crack marks the point at which the tune is stripped down to its raw elemental state: sub-bass rolls, a rising mid-range bassline and ear-splitting snare snaps.

On the flipside is 'Symmetry', and again there is that sense of a tune of two parts; yet here the distance between the elements is far narrower, and even the listener most familiar with the work of both Biome and Demon individually would have difficulty discerning each individual influence on the track. This is a collaboration in the finest sense of the word, in which each artist mirrors and then completes the other's input to create, as wordplay would have it, a unique sense of symmetry. Where vocal samples reverberate outward, there is a taut snare tugging the groove back into line; while the kick drums establish a straight, stomping rhythm, hi-hats and slapped toms drive on at their own pace. Not unlike the eight-bar grime with which Demon entered the music scene, 'Symmetry' chops and changes as it progresses; but it does so without the predictable, looping format that determined that style of grime's short life-span, instead it instils Biome's core idea of taking the listener on a journey. And it is fitting that at this point, in the moment at which the tune achieves its real sense of togetherness, that the two producers' separate influences can be picked apart from each other.


Biome & Demon - Incubus


Biome & Demon - Symmetry


Vinyl release date: 16/07/12
Digital release date: 06/08/12


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