Chainsaw

Chainsaw

DJ Fresh [Violence Recordings]

16 May, 2008 | 9.22AM

• Section: Music Recommendations Topics: Beatport Blog
• Written by: The Last Real DJ Alive

DJ Fresh is a drum & bass legend, and the man is still young.

How he could have achieved so much at this stage in his career is quite remarkable and, interestingly, now that he’s reached this rare plateau, he can try new things creatively, starting with ‘Chainsaw’.

The name ‘Chainsaw’ implies that Fresh might be venturing back to his Bad Company style and ‘Inside The Machine’ days, particularly because it’s being released on the aptly-named Violence Recordings.

This is true to some extent - the darkness that Fresh epitomised in the D&B scene in the late ‘90s is certainly present in the evolving, buzzing, reverb-heavy synth that dominates this track.

It all reaches a crescendo halfway through when the beats go half-time - ‘Chainsaw’ shows Fresh’s depth as a producer by becoming what any Dubstep producer would be incredibly proud of.

Speeding up, and featuring a Sci-Fi “it’s just the beginning” trademark sample, ‘Chainsaw’ revs up and then unleashes its power, chopping heads on the dance floor like an axe through tree trunks.

Whilst it’s dark and dirty, ‘Chainsaw’ bears all the hallmarks of a modern D&B favourite, and has a hell of a lot of funk buried beneath its rusted samples and dangerous-sounding drums.

Also on this release, you have ‘The Union’, which ranks as disgusting and depraved drum & bass.

Although Fresh knows that he has to add some musicality to make his creations as popular as they are, his roots really are in this type of filthy amen D&B (remember the ‘Book of the Bad’ volume 2 EP?), as proved by ‘The Union’.

Showing this new style once more that seems to be influenced by Dubstep (where everything is encased in reverb) this a deliciously quirky, amen bruiser, that will rock dark raves to the core.

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