“Combat once again serve up music for the connoisseurs of harder beats, with another genre-bending EP, this time from ScanOne. Red Dub starts off simple enough, stop start drums jerking over bass undulations and livewire synth action, but pressure builds as amens and electro-filth enter the fray. Flipside, Orca is one for the poppers and lockers, as vintage sounds groove with dot-matrix printers and the funky drummer in a future history lesson. -iDJ Mag”
“This release highlights the links between underground electro and dubstep’s darker excesses. It’s most evident on ‘Orca’ and ‘Red Dub’, where murderous, gut-wrenching basslines complement scattergun percussion, nightmarish synths, and on the latter, even a brief dalliance with straight kicks. But the label hasn’t entirely lost its purist streak and ‘Skip’ and ‘Static Shock’ revert to full-on electro-breaks mode. 4/5” – DJ Mag
“Like Orca and Red Dub, will give them a blast sometime. – Surgeon (Downwards Recordings)”
After his sterling 12” of electro-infused dubstep on the Studio Rockers (under the Bionics moniker), Spring 2008 sees the return of Jude Greenaway in full battle-mode as ScanOne, with the follow-up to 2007’s Toolkit 1 E.P.
Comprising of 2 mutant dubstep tracks on one side, and 2 mutant electro tracks on the other, this EP continues his exploration of the warped and wonderful no-man’s land between dubstep, electro and breakbeats, Toolkit 2 gleefully mutates genres while focusing the results firmly, as always, on the dancefloor.
is a London-based label that specialises in fierce electronic music drawn from the unstable, creative space between electro, dubstep, breakbeat and electronica, combining strong points while keeping bass pressure up at redline levels.