Album Review

Subsource – The Reason

• 1st Feb 2010

Within 30 seconds of the opening track it’s evident that breakbeaters Subsource don’t mess around. In-your-face dance music dabbling in genres right and centre, the Subsource sound could be likened to a more bombastic Pendulum, and throws up plenty of treats on this debut.

The strongest moments on Doombox come from the outfit’s ability to put together a thumping chorus, bristling with energy and it’s moments like the title track and ‘the Ides’ to name a couple that really excite in their all-out aggression, that gives this album its edge.

There aren’t too many weak links here though, each track is liable to inspire some jerky movements in the most uptight of listeners and sounds custom-fitted to sweaty euphoria on dancefloors and in moshpits alike, take ‘Machines in real life’, a dervish of manic aggression akin to an on-form Prodigy, or the contrastingly Reggae-infused (but equally kinetic) dance of ‘Street soul music’, the latter replete with infectious rapping.

Subsource make a compelling case for themselves here, with an exciting and varied breakbeat record screaming out to soundtrack some late-night hedonism near you.