Having once drum and bass dismissed as 'digital jazz rock' and then
never giving it that much attention anymore, I must say that John B &
Exile's 'Broken Language' is quite nice. Both sides are quite
hardcore, almost industrial music, but with drum and bass meeting
gabber-like rhythms. Exile's solo b-side is even a bit more
experimental than the a-side and I must say if more dnb was like
this, I would certainly be investigating this more and more. Two
strong piece pumping loads of energy and adrenalin around.

More junglist posturing from those folk at Planet Mu – this time coming correct with a fierce two-tracker from John B (Beta/Prototype/Metalheadz) and collaborator Tim Exile (Moving Shadow/Frequency/Ram/Beta). “Broken Language” was originally created for John’s ‘in:transit’ album, here handed over to Exile for a proper rough-ass mangled edit – in accordance with Mu’s hardcore trajectory, complete with a gabba crescendo, phased and mangled Amens and ...more