Release

Since 2007, Kevin McAuley has run the scene-defining UK label Hessle with Pearson Sound and Ben UFO. This "double EP," McAuley's most substantial Pangea offering to date, is a wily, undefinable example of progressive underground dance music.

Hessle Audio's impressive back catalogue of high-sheen, experimental future bass goes back to 2007, with releases from leading lights such as Ramadanman and Martyn. Co-founder Pangaea's contributions have covered a series of EPs and 12-inches, but with double EP Release he refines and updates his sound, bringing us his most cohesive and upfront tracks to date.

It's highly appropriate that when I loaded the promo for Release into iTunes the genre tag read simply "Hessle Audio." After all, Pangaea, a...

Pangaea and his label, Hessle Audio, have been working with a clear purpose for the last two years. Starting with a six-track self-titled mision statement back in 2010, Pangaea has helped lead the current crop of bass music heavyweights out of traditional garage and dubstep dance molds and into techno-infused weirdness grounded in a full