- Amsterdam's Rwina Records has found a comfortable home in the overlap between grime and dubstep, mixing toxic wobbles and undulating basslines with the synth-centric flamboyance and squiggly melodies of grime producers like Terror Danjah and Swindle. Bay Area producer Jasper Reeder seems a natural fit: his debut on Planet Mu earlier this year had a dubstep sound infected by mirth and mischief, and the four-track Poison Flavoured shows him further developing his playful-but-dirty, crunk-influenced style of auto-tune vocals and midrange synths.
"Sweaty Bodies" leads off in fine form, its 110 BPM muscular flex something like mutant hip-hop or drugged dubstep: Reeder's jostling sub-bass and wheezing synths sway around the swooning beat in exaggerated fashion, like someone took apart a Flux Pavilion tune and put it back together with all the parts in the wrong places. "Jelly" is even slower, dipping down to 95 BPM, but this time the hip-hop structure can't contain the synths which tumble around as if the beat didn't even exist. The equally slow "Legionnare" is the only real dubstep track here, and it's a good attempt at the traditionalist stagger-and-crash. Like everything else here it's obnoxious but blatantly, pleasingly melodic.
TracklistA1 Sweaty Bodies
A2 Jelly
B1 Hydra
B2 Legionnaire