1 Gantz - Baby Face 2 Lurka - Refresher (Gantz Remix) There’s been a discernible buzz about the amount of top-drawer dubstep records already released this year, illustrating the fine health of the sound in 2014. Alongside other torch-bearing imprints such as System, Artikal and Deep Medi, Innamind Recordings has played a notable role in delivering the heaviest beats from a globally dispersed set of talent, with January’s joint EP from the Finnish connection LAS and Mikael still fresh in the memory. One of IMR’s mainstay artists, Gantz, is obviously in unstoppable form. As well as being ferried about to Russia, UK, Germany, Greece and just about anywhere wanting to hear a real set of soundsystem-rooted originality, he keeps rolling out track after track of mind-blowing material, many of which are deserving of a special place in our collections. With that said, Innamind are hyped to be releasing IMRV009, a fresh Gantz riddim backed with his remix of a track by Bristol’s finest, Lurka. The A side, ‘Babyface’, takes us to the core of why we love this music so much, the kind of internal organ re-arranging bassweight that when it drops on a decent system, you’re compelled to turn to a mate and fire off a round of expletives, or simply stand there in shock, getting shaken from your feet upwards. It’s got Gantz’s sonic fingerprints all over it - drunken rhythms, quaint samples and looping vocals - and this one is sure to go down as one of his best. Flipside, it’s hard to listen to Gantz’s Refresher remix without a smile on your face, as, absurdly good as it is, its also entertains with a catalogue of sound-byte oddities, including managing to call Lurka out via the medium of a Viktor Vaughn aka MF Doom sample. The original was already a pretty abstract piece, and Gantz cranks it up a notch with skeletal, heavily-effected percussion clattering all over the place above taut sub-bass hits and the properly mangled remnants of a reese synth.