Been a too long time (again) since last writing something in here. But have been busy, yada yada etc. etc.
Found something so neat that could not resist on writing something to our humble blog. And as it is me (elysion) writing this, you probably can guess what I’m going to be all about – pure and solid, quality drum & bass!
Have been following closely two producers lately hailing from the great capitol of Czech (incredibly hard to remember how to spell Czech btw.) republic – Prague (or Praha as we Finns and the Czechs correctly call it). If you have been following the dnb scene recently, you should by now have guessed that I’m referring to the incredibly talented duo who go by the names of Hybris and Rido.
Neither of these guys can be really referred to as new on the scene though. Rido’s first releases date back to somewhere ’round 2006 and while Hybris is a rather new alias, the guy behind the name, Evan Vischi, has been producing dnb even earlier while being a part of the US based trio called Robot Death Squad. The reason I am refering to these two artists as a duo is because Evan aka Hybris moved to Prague a few years ago and has been collaborating with Rido there with absolutely fantastic results. Results that can be heard on, for instance, The Prague Connection EP, which was released just recently at the beginning of this month on the legendary Metalheadz label.
Here are links to two tracks from the EP: First Contact and Memento, prove my point about the quality:
I came across Hybris’ production the first time when I heard his production on the Invisible EP 003 released on Noisia’s Vision Recordings sublabel Invisible. I was really impressed by the sounds on the tracks – the nice, sharp and choppy, composition with deep bass and really clever drum programming. Seems like the years in Europe have done good to the guy since he has moved away from the US style, straight forward kind of vibes towards more deeper sounds.
Rido on the other hand has not been on top of my list of best producers since very recently. I have heard many of his tunes during the years, but none of them have really struck as all that interesting. The reason has probably been that I got bored of the neurofunk/hardstep/whatever sounds since quite a while ago, and that is exactly what Rido has been working around for the past years. Even his earlier releases this year have not been all that intriguing, but the most recent are absolutely phenomenal – here are two of them: “Exoplanet” and the track I am hugely hyped up about at the moment called “Twisted”:
Btw. if you can spot the breaks used on Twisted, pop a comment to this post! There are a couple in there, and that makes this track even more spectacular in my opinion.
