VA - Hyperdub 10.2 (2014)

Hyperdub compile sweeter, soulful classics and new exclusives on the 2nd part of their 10th anniversary celebrations. The presence of feminine pressure has always been core to Hyperdub's aesthetic, from the earliest iterations of Warrior Queen's fearsome hook-ups with The Bug, to the new skool of Jessy Lanza or Inga Copeland's exclusive collaboration with Kode 9, 'Lies, Lies', via Cooly G's sensuous swing. They've plucked 14 of the best for you on '10.2', flexing from the ghostly 2-step of Burial's 'Shell Of Light' to the irresistible R & G of Terror Danjah and Meleka's 'You Make Me Feel', taking in the funk flair of Ikonika and Dâm-Funk's 'I Know (That You Are the 1)', and DVA's exclusive dub-soul burner 'Solid' starring Zaki Ibrahim and Manchester's Metrodome, plus a crooked dancehall ballad from Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland called 'Signal 2012', and the neck-snapping soul chops of Morgan Zarate featuring Eska and none other than Ghostface Killah on 'Sticks and Stones'. Coupled with the Mariah-like multi-octave range of Jessy Lanza's exclusive 'You and Me', it's more or less a crucial survey of modern bass-pop prisms from late '00s to now.