Moonshine Recordings presents – “Steppin’ forward”

MSLP002 digital coverMoonshine made a lot of positive confusion around that album and it wasn’t exaggerated. “Steppin’ forward’ is a collection of 15 tunes, which haven’t seen the daylight yet, produced by both bass scene veterans and the novices, although words “veteran” and “novice” are only meaning their seniority on the scene, because some of the novices show their best side on that compilation. I don’t like to split music into tight genres, so the term “bass music” is fine to describe this compilation – we can find here echoes of dubstep and steppers, all of that in original style. So, Violinbwoy gives us reasons to joy, because he shows his potential – “Echo Park” will be played on many sound system sessions at 4 in the morning. Similarly will it be with Tuff & Powa, though the bassline reminds me of Boney M. Tune by OSC&Dubsworth with toasting by Ranking Joe named “Ital Vital” is a treat to dubstep fans. As for the “veterans” – Hatti Vatti and Ciann Finn is another example, how should the vocalist co-operate with the producer – a perfect duo without beating around the bush. Here i ask both of them: record more together, this is so magical and has the strong message, which is needed nowadays. Another artist worth of Attention is Vibration Lab alongside beautiful Wayne Jarrets voice which rules that tune, just like in “Concrete”, when you can hear voices from Only Joe. A big surprise for me is The Illuminated, because they took me to Jamaica and it seems like they met King Tubby out there, that’s how i imagine dub that he would produce if he lived today. Fans of heavy, tough bass will be conquered by Numa Crew, however here we also have classic reggae echoes. Compa – without any compromises, just like 6Blocc, RSD and Kalbata. I left two crazy performers for the conclusion, you can say that they started the boom for roots reggae inspired bass music – Radikal Guru and Alpha Steppa. They both show their high level – Radikal remixes Zion Train, although he’s had better remixes of that group (it might be fault of the tune which didn’t impress me in the original version) and Alpha Steppa presents his fascination of the Middle East, what we are used to, full of sibilant, rumbling bass! Take it without consideration, because there is everything best … just a lot of bass!!! Low bows to Moonshine Recordings for their contribution to the music!