Drum & Bass
Love & Other Drugs EP
Hospital RecordsNHS368
Drum & Bass
12"
£11.66 (£13.99 incl. VAT)
Two of Russia’s finest drum & bass producers have combined forces for
an exciting new project. St Petersburg’s Microfunk mastermind Bop, and
Moscow’s minimalistic groove guru Subwave, unite for their debut collaborative
release ‘Love & Other Drugs’.
With their elegant approach to drum & bass, this four-track EP fuses futuristic
indie-electronica, 2-step UK garage, glitchy beats and 80’s inspired vocal stylings.
Progressive euphoria is the name of the game in ‘Teardrops’ as Bop x
Subwave pick apart the structure of D+B in this warm, delicate and hypnotic
glitch number. Following suit is ‘Space Warp’ - darker with eerie undertones,
packaged as a sub-heavy stepper.
The second half of ‘Love & Other Drugs’ sees the duo branch out beyond the
realms of traditional D+B. The bittersweet ballad ‘Don’t Wake Me Up’ is kitted
out with a definitive 80’s style. Seeing the EP home is ‘The Touch’ with the
syncopated beatwork of 2-step UK Garage, complete with skippy breaks and
snappy vocal sampling. In the decade since the release of Hospital Records’
‘Future Sound Of Russia’ LP, Bop and Subwave have produced an impressive
array of tracks across Hospital Records, Med School, Liquicity, Shogun Audio,
Metalheadz and Microfunk, cementing their reputations for going beyond the
boundaries of D+B. Keep your eyes peeled for more collaborative musings from
Bop x Subwave in 2020.
Tracks: Teardrops / Space Warp / Don’t Wake Me Up / Touch