#6 Feat. Staff Picks in Bass / Club

Yas Reven takes charge of the next release on Nerve Collect with her Sudden Mist EP. It features five tracks of avant-garde club music and comes with a 3Phaz remix. Italian-born innovator Yas Reven is based in Milan and has a love of architecture that inspires how she structures her sophisticated sounds. As a dynamic DJ, she traverses a full spectrum from techno and bass music to breakbeat and has recently put out her first productions on Bristol-based label Hardline. After that EP turned plenty of heads, she now backs it up with more thrilling and hard-to-define club cuts. The EP opens up with Sudden Mist, Revens knack for expert percussive designs shines through as tin pot hits, splintered wood and metal throngs all pepper a loopy techno rhythm. Its intense yet serene, physical yet meditative. Etoy keeps the pressure on with more intriguing sound designs, thumping bass and lurching techno loops that never stop evolving and keep you utterly locked in. Mad Drop is a futuristic blend of whirring loops and twanging synth sounds over hammering broken beats that lead to dance floor takeoff. Trapped is another collision of unusual percussion layered over tightly stacked beats with a ritualistic and tribal edge. Little Gem has it all - a stomping and unrelenting barrage of intelligent techno with a warrior lead and tightly programmed percussion. And as closer a remix from 3Phaz, the Cairo-based producer blending traditional Egyptian styles Mahraganat and Shaabi with contemporary techno. His take on Etoy pairs writhing synth lines with fragmented melodies. The chopped-up drum patterns and rave-ready sirens make for a dense collage of heavily textured and high-fidelity sound. This is an ambitious, accomplished EP from someone with a truly unique take on how to move a dance floor both physically and mentally.

Yas Reven