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Review: Sneaker Social Club is a proper tidy UK label that deals in proper underground sounds. After a while away, it is back with House Of Black Lanterns who dials into private radio culture on some dark 2-step bangers. 'Back 2 Back Special' comes with a fuzzy and dusty aesthetic as if playing through an old analogue radio and 'Out To The Private Number' is just as throwback with wet FX, dry bass and sharp hits. 'Slew has spins backs, bouncing drums and a hustling garage flex and 'Summon Like This' shuts down with more soulful vocal snippets dropped into a fractured and kinetic 2-step rhythm.

Review: Sneaker Social regulars Alan Johnson return to the label with more unclassifiable gems. All flexing that bewitching, beaty brew of percussion, smoking 808s, shattered beats and crafty sampling, each cut hits with a direct physical groove. From the System-level dubsteppy title track to the more organic haze and swoons of the finale 'People Of The World', the UK duo have once again weaved a fine line between so many genres without committing to any. Tonnes of love..

Review: Given the breadth and diversity of Neil Landstrumm's output over the last couple of decades, it can be difficult to second-guess where he might go next musically. The answer, this time round at least, is "high-octane bass music" via a ridiculously limited-edition EP (only 100 have been pressed) for Sneaker Social Club. The Scottish scene stalwart starts by adding chiming and bleeping melodies to a warped bassline and breathless breakbeats on 'Bravery', before reaching for rumbling bass, grime style synth tones and hot-stepping post-dubstep drums on 'The Hawk'. 'Respect The Deal' delivers a mix of sparse beats, energy-packed breakbeat blasts and hip-hop vocal samples, while 'The Prisoner' is a dreamy, eccentrically swung slab of bass-heavy UK techno.

Review: The ever-intriguing Luke Murray comes in hot n' heavy on his latest for Sneaker Social club - Liquid DnB-Like Ambient Grime 2. Although somewhat stylistically misleading: you won't hear any liquid d&b-like ambient grime on this record, the irreverent title does Murray's deeply informed UK soundsystem anachronism justice and flips the bird at genre pedants. Over four chronologically-referenced flips of one tune, he traverses dark, tunnelrunning two-step, lumbering dubstep annihilation, techno steppers a-la-Gast and lacerating future grime with great ease and NRG. Four system warheads to suit all tastes!