Juno Recommends Dubstep June 2018

Review: Lion Charge unleash a brand new 10" X series dedicated to the more experimental quarters of 140 sound system music. Launch duties are taken care of by the currently anonymous Marcus Anbessa and he's certainly set the benchmark. "Cultivating Axum" is all about the layered, heavily dubbed drum arrangement that builds and folds with mesmerising effect. Flip for "Unbreakable Cages" where the dizzy factor is taken to more spacious places with savage spoken word ricocheting across spring, metallic textures and iced-out processed chimes. X marks the spot.

Review: Rising new cat Boneless makes his official debut on Joe Nice's Gourmet Beats and it's every bit as tasty as you'd hope. Both show-stopping cuts, built with weight and attention to detail; "Escape" is the demonic twisted jam with an undulating electroid bassline that decays and twists to the perfect degree. Wig wearers beware - this is truly hair-raising stuff. "Wizzro" soothes any abrasions you may have suffered from the A-side with deep wafts of mystic flutes, notes of heavy melancholy and another superb bottom end. Meaty.

Review: Echo Chamber sound bossman LQ takes us back to the rare-as-hens-teeth Echo Plate dub from 2016 with two new twists. The Hardware mix cuts straight to the chase with the dominant alien croaking bassline taking centre stage almost instantly. Ishan Sound then continues to add a little more theatre with lavish strokes of eastern strings and added layers of percussion. Finally we have a brand new cut "Dubplate Jugglin'". Following LQ and Midnight Dubs' last co-lab "Smuggler's Anthem", it's another thoroughbred jungle twist with full attention paid to the brain-melting detailed drum edits. Get running.

Review: Juicy jams galore: ZHA's White Peach return with their sixth "Bits" instalment where Peach pals old and new collide with their freshest, most vitamin-enriched cuts. First up label newcomers Neffa-T and Patrick Brian get rowdy with a space-aged grime stepper "Sabertooth". All staccato fire and rubber-ball bass it sets the tone for Gundam & Jook's grimey snare-smacking hybrid "Tactical Espionage" and some obese bass ripples from Modelle, who was last spotted on the label earlier this year with the awesome "Paladins" EP. Finally ZHA makes a rare appearance with the wonked out melter "Running VIP". Yum.