Dom of Dom & Roland needs no introduction. With his Roland sampler, he has been at
the apex of drum and bass since the mid 90.s. One of the original pioneers of the techstep
sound. NME once called him the George Lucas of the scene, due to his unfaltering ability
to provide the listener with an aural'gasm of epic soundscapes inspired by the visuals of a
thousand sci-fi movies.
The Big Bang will be his fifth album and builds upon a sturdy framework of singles,
albums and remixes going right back to when he was signed to Moving Shadow with it's
now legendary cult status. His previous album credits read like a who's who of electronic
music and have featured collaborations with creative masterminds like Optical, Matrix,
Hive, Rob Playford, Noisia and Amon Tobin.
This album being completely solo is a departure from his previous four. In Dom's own
words “Apart from being something I've never done before, I wanted to get back to what I
originally loved about DnB back in the late 90's and turn it into something more modern
whilst retaining full control of the creation myself. I was also interested to see if there was
still a place for the kind of dirty funk that I'm into in todays ultra clean digital world”
So what do you get?
“Epic Lucus'esque monsters” Flux and Enforced , “Tearouts” 2097 and Paralax,
“Steppers” Cigars n Money and Terminate , “Neurofunkin” Nostradamus, Capsicum
and Footnotes, “Rollers” Dune and Raptor and not forgetting a Dom trademark “Vocal
Amen Smasher” Electric Smile VIP.
It covers all bases of the music that has made Dom what he is today and if todays current
big name DJ's are to be believed, it will be remembered as one of his best. You only have
to search for the youtube video of DJ Marky “broking out” to Enforced which he played as
his last tune at Global Gathering this year to see the impact this album will have this year
and for the years to come.
Got this album the day it dropped and have not been dissapointed, a big thing I noticed from the off on this one is the drums, no fill snares or shakers goin off just huge kiks and snares tha sound so nice. Doms ability to make tracks that sound gigantic is amazing, cigars and money is my first favorite due to the theatrical hits and pitching horns, but paralyx and dune and shit, they are all awesome. If this is one of the new directions of DnB you can count me in, old school folks will surely love this one, and I can't see newer fans not lovin it either.
