Zed Bias - Fairplay/Phoneline
Posted by
Matt Oliver at
22/08/2011 11:45:00
Dave Jones, ahead of marketing what has to be called a fiery
blend of herbs and spices in his new long-player 'Biasonic Hotsauce – Birth of the Nanocloud', goes for a Soul II Soul
cover to keep up the first-rate work found all across 'Make a Change'. 'Fairplay', its
bubbles blown by a sass-filled Jenna G, has got the sound of Rosie Gaines’ 'Closer than Close' in its ear while it does
broken beat with the usual leaning of Bias bias – i.e., loads of zip, lip and bassline
cragginess defying the prim and proper dress code for the VIP area. Maybe the
least you’d expect, but still a premium summertime shaker.
An Old Skool mix from Bias lets off tough 2-step that
would’ve seen the dapper ripping their Moschino to pieces in admiration, coming
off the back of soft build-ups. This isn’t the UK garage
renaissance, this Bias is rifling through old tape-packs, and of course, he has
the pick of upfront bass playlists to dominate with it.
If 'Phoneline'
were a premium rate number, it would be advertising the benefits of crossing Basement
Jaxx with Elektrons, a 100% proof shot of stepping bass and ragga nonsense shaking
up some hooligan house biznizz to jump and shout about, a bit of simplicity and
silliness going a helluva long way. Maddslinky uses both to the remix’s
advantage with a hard to categorize tribal mating call, best bracketed as either
B-more, bashment or tribal dubstep (if such a thing exists), mopping up bodies
that’ll be sprayed around like skittles once that bottom end has flung ‘em into
making a seven-ten split. Once again, the genre of bass is the winner, and Bias’
'Hotsauce' should be top of shopping
lists