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Review: The proliferation of AnD's productions in 2011 and 2012 saw the dynamic duo release a flux of EPs for a varied group of discerning labels including Horizontal Ground, Felix K's Hidden Hawaii and Black Sun Records. So far this year, AnD have been in much less prolific form, with the Mancunian pair's two credited releases the one binary encoded 002/0202/0222 12? from their own eponymous label and a suitably titled debut for Delsin offshoot Ann Aimee. Their year of label debuts continues here as they align with the Greek label Modal Analysis for the curiously titled Bow EP. Is this release named in honour of the London borough? If so, any apparent grime influence is buried deep into the screeching distortions of "Bow #1? and "Bow #2? to the point that it's undecipherable. Bow also brings with it a beatless, but snare/white-noise fuelled Decomposition by Warp, Downwards and Editions Mego noise doyen Russell Haswell, whose remix presents Modal Analysis with one of its most distinctive productions yet.

Review: Samurai celebrate 10 years of bass progression with an almighty collection of originals from its nearest and dearest: ASC takes the lead with an acid stroll into a dense foggy wood on "Source Code" before Ancestral Voices take over with a rich weave of atmospheres soaring and swooping over a palpitating hang drum and stately halftime beats on "Izula" and Sam KDC follows with a mightily reverbed slice of tribal technoid hypnosis. And blows the final whistle with the ricochet rave that is "Flashback". A 23rd century jungle frenzy, it's more like a flash forward. Here's to the next decade...