Deep chune coming from down-under, it can only be TRUTH

The trans-continental bassweight smugglers return to grace Mala‘s DEEP MEDi label after a three year gap, and seeing as their last Medi 12″ was the frankly obscene FATMAN VIP we’ll forgive them.

Now moving fwd as a duo, if anything the Truth sound has diversified. The rough, swaggering ‘my wub goes to 11’ styles of earlier tunes like The Fatman & The Emperor are now balanced with deft pieces of musicality and minute intricacies.

Opener ‘30,000 Ft’ enacts this diversity of style, playing a HEFTY sub & clinical drum beat against flickers of timeworn dub skank & jazz sax. The breakdown chords are sublime, would put next mans Massive preset ina urn. Not bad for a tune made with a laptop & SubPac on a plane.

Fellow A-sider ‘Gangsters’ brings the space. Truth get busy with the bass-movement, plonking some 808s up and down the octave for maximum body-scannage ina di rave. Are those the ‘Devil’s Hands’ bells coming in halfway thru? ALERT THE YOUNGSTA.

Truth link up with California newcomer & Teklife Ent. young un’ TASO on ‘Trenchtown’. Having personally told me that this guy was ‘one to watch’ in the Burrito queue at last Outlook, the two don’t disappoint in the collab, as verbed-out mega-wobs drench this half-stepping delight.

Last one ‘Lucid’ fully fleshes out the mellower side of Truth that has been lurkin’ recently (check their smooth bootleg of The Weeknd pon the ‘cloud). Truth’s technical prowess comes to the fore on this one, as the CRYSTAL clear mixdown allows the subtle melodies and textures to swirl unimpeded above the sub.

Future Beats Rave Shutdown Rating: 3.5/5

Vinyl & MP3 released 28th April:http://www.surus.co.uk/Deep-Medi-Musik/30-000-Ft-24642.aspx