BROKEN DUB: Incredibly appropriate name for this free EP of glitched out dubtronics released by Modisti netlabel. The tunes are pleasingly short, in fact the whole seven tracks are over within 15 minutes, which is a good thing sometimes: if you've done all you're going to do within two minutes, why drag the track out to seven?

Taking in dub/step, glitch, breakcore and general electronic experimentation along the way, most of the EP is an enjoyable listen but to be perfectly honest, pretty forgettable. It's opening track Disappoinment and closer, Vector Dub, which really make this a release worth checking out - the former being more or less exactly half way between dubstep and Aphex Twin's Richard D James album, and the latter another dubstep based tune which makes incredible use of the way silence can smack you round the face in a beat (see Dr Dre's Some LA Niggaz beat for one of the best examples of this I know)

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Came across this awesome free album today from Sheffield's Planet Terror Records - it's a wicked selection of mostly dubstep based electronic awesomeness with some IDM and breakcore stuff in there too... Basically every track is a winner but some highlights for me were: Adam Kroll's Emigrant, a fantastic aggresive, spacious dubstep track with trancey arps and brassy stabs... the bouncy psy dubstep of Cixxx J's edit of Solstice by dubbwune... Rogue State doing his inimatable 4x4 dubstep thang on Fireworkz... 2 tone chiptune-core of New Ferves by Smurd and the huge lolloping psy-dub monster Zion Blood by Titus Twelve.

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