VISLA returns to Critical Music with two more stubbornly underground slabs of wall-shaking drum & bass.
Three years on from his first release for Critical, the British producer has cut a path through an increasingly crowded D&B scene with his own twisted take on the deeper, more minimal side of the sound – as perfectly evidenced by both tracks here.
‘Maniac’ is cinematic and energetic all at once, its suffocating intro swept aside by a horde of brutal, mangled bass tones that lurch from the dark spaces left between a slicing two-step drum groove.
‘Chrome Heights’ moves more rhythmically, with scattering drum breaks and booming 808 subs adding frantic urgency to VISLA’s trademark grizzled bass-work and foreboding soundscapes.
