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FRMNT009 / 12″ / Dia­monds in the Rough EP

GAMMA014 / Dig­i­tal / Global Wub, Vol­ume 2

Buy it @ JUNO

HAITI003 / Dig­i­tal / Dub­step­pers for Haiti Vol. 3

Buy it @ JUNO

KR0027 / Dig­i­tal / FBOM — Let Me In (HxdB RMX)

Buy it @ JUNO

MINDSET006 / 12″ & Dig­i­tal / HxdB — The Prism EP

1. HxdB — Prism : Mindset006A
2. HxdB — Macro Mod­u­lar : Mindset006AA
3. HxdB — Show­down at the Cin­ema : Mindset006AB

Buy 12″ @ Boomkat / Juno / Chem­i­cal / Red­eye / BM Soho / Hard­wax / Triple Vision Dig­i­tal com­ing soon! Boomkat.com “Mind­set Record­ings show their cal­i­bre with an ace debut from Cana­dian pro­ducer Hexa­deci­bel aka HxdB. The sixth release on the steadily matured label shows a shared love for the emo­tive step­pers soul of D-Bridge, or the crisp clar­ity of Instra:mental at a dub­step tempo. ‘Prism’ shapes sharp 2-step rhythms to har­ness silicon-toned moody-blue synth­lines, while ‘Macro Mod­u­lar’ wrig­gles with a dub­step elec­tron­ica vibe built from clipped post-dub-steppers pat­terns and ‘Show­down At The Cin­ema’ adds jazzy blue rhodes to restrained tearout bass, lush strings and glis­ten­ing atmos­pher­ics rem­i­nis­cent of the man D-Bridge. A rec­om­men­da­tion to any fans of Hyetal, Indigo, SYNKRO or Nar­cos­sist!” Sonic Router Blog “Cana­dian pro­ducer Hexa­deci­bel, hereby short­ened to 4 let­ters to rep­re­sent each syl­la­ble of his full moniker, who first appeared on Echodub’s free­bie com­pi­la­tion ‘Ane­choic Cham­ber’ is at the helm of Manchester’s Mind­set label’s newest plate; and over the course of the three tracks on offer, he really does man­age to paint a per­plex­ingly unique and dis­tinc­tively old school style. The A side ‘Prism’ feels like it owes a debt of grat­i­tude to the Dutch school of pro­duc­tion with crys­tal clean drum lines and a smat­ter­ing of those flu­ent touches of synth colour a-la 2562, with HXDB let­ting the ethe­real patches of jagged eupho­ria meld into the harsher bass stabs that dis­solve after half a bar. Its swag­ger is sim­ple, even a lit­tle min­i­mal in terms of HXDB let­ting each sound breathe, but the charm of it really does lie in that snare that seems to bub­ble and pop as much as it snaps. ‘Macro Mod­u­lar’ and its accom­pa­ny­ing track on the flip, ‘Show­down At The Cin­ema,’ how­ever dis­play a pen­chant for a more twisted b-line (likened by Boomkat to the min­i­mal pat­terns of dBridge) with the for­mer let­ting the focus lie on the sub­tle pan­ning on the tail end of the uplift­ing bass loop before the cut up drums of the halfway point sig­nal some­thing a lit­tle more dance­able. Even when HXDB cuts loose he still keeps the restraint present and cor­rect, mix­ing up the bass pat­terns and only crank­ing up the res­o­nance a few times to get that liq­uid purs­ing “wow” sound. ‘Show­down At The Cin­ema’ is prob­a­bly the stand out cut though, with the intro­duc­tion of a heav­ily delayed vocal to what sounds like a reversed and processed gui­tar loop, mon­u­men­tal strings and a toy piano that squeals joy­fully for through­out its lim­ited appear­ance. ‘Showdown…’’s real moment in the sun though is when all of the above ele­ments come to pass lay­ered atop the grumpy, dis­tor­tion frayed bassline, as HXDB stut­ters out the groove with a few of those amen style hi hat shuf­fles.” Uptown Records: “HXDB TURN IN A BLINDING TRIO OF TRACKS FOR MINDSET, THESE PEEPS BE ON FIYA RIGHT NOW YO!” Hardwax.com “Fine IDM & UK hard­core roots house com­pat­i­ble UK garage/dubstep cuts” Just the Bassics Blog “HxdB – A1: Prism B1: Marco Mod­u­lar B2: Show­down at the cin­ema In Just the Bassics, we love our spir­i­tual Dub­step. Well, gen­er­ally any kind of spiritual/emotive music fits per­fectly in our playlists, but make it Dub­step or DnB and it jumps imme­di­ately to the top of the queue. Recently, when brows­ing Red­eye Records I came across this record and the pre­view made it look very promis­ing, so, since I was need­ing to refresh my Dub­step library (and, on a per­sonal note here, since it’s been so f*cking hard to find tracks that aren’t just an amal­ga­ma­tion of noisy, over-the-top filthy basslines with beats that are too worked out…maybe it’s because I’m not look­ing in the right places or I’m just too picky when it comes to dub­step), it went straight to the ’shop­ping cart’. Turns out that this record is even bet­ter that what I was expect­ing, some­thing that hasn’t hap­pened in a while, now that I think about it. Back to the EP. The 3 tracks were pro­duced by HdxB (Hexa­deci­bel), a 31 year old pro­ducer from Van­cou­ver, Canada and released on Mind­set Record­ings. The sixth release on this label are these tracks that could be eas­ily com­pared to the spiritual-stepping vibe you can get from pro­duc­ers such as dBridge or Instra:mental. Sim­ple beats that work per­fectly, sup­ported by a deep, crys­tal clear synth and sub bass, along with many dif­fer­ent ‘ear-candy’, spacey sound fx’s, such as a sim­ple arpeg­gia­tor that emerges to the sur­face here and there. Or just a some­thing that, as I like to describe it, sounds like vio­lin strings being absorbed and twisted into some sort of vor­tex, cre­at­ing a hyp­no­tiz­ing effect that seems to put you in a state of trance. Either that, or I need to stop smok­ing. Either way, this piece of qual­ity dub­step is some­thing you MUST get your hands in, as soon as pos­si­ble. No excuses. Get your bum out of the chair and go and get this to the near­est record shop you can find. Or do it online, if you must, just get the record. It’s good to start the rave with; it’s great to play on that sleazy bar, with ambi­ent lights and a relaxed atmos­phere; it’s awe­some to fin­ish the night with when you get home knack­ered, with a numb brain and body after a very sat­is­fy­ing rave or just to chill and enjoy dur­ing any time of the day, really. In case you need some sort of pre­view, there’s noth­ing like good’ol Soundcloud…”

ECHODUB010 / Dig­i­tal / HxdB EP

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DUBKRAFT018MP3 / Dig­i­tal / HxdB — The Remixes EP

Buy it @ JUNO / Beat­port

One of Canada’s ris­ing stars in the world of future garage and 2steppy beats, HxdB, deliv­ers here a spe­cial col­lec­tion of remixes he made for a few of the coolest up and com­ing pro­duc­ers in his AIM buddy list. Moody but sweet, techy but warm, futur­is­tic but full of clas­sic ele­ments, the release is not a col­lec­tion of antag­o­nisms though, but rather a flow­ing and musi­cal piece of antic­i­pa­tion for what dubstep/uk garage may evolve into

DDR023 / Dig­i­tal / The Mrs. U Remixes (HxdB RMX)

SUBSTRUK004 / Dig­i­tal / u001 EP

ECHODUB001 / *FREE* Dig­i­tal / The Ane­choic Cham­ber EP

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