DJ Magazine (UK) Aug08 - Track: Journeyman vs Barrcode: No Exception/Riddim n Culture Sure I\'ve heard the sample used plentifully in this burbling breakbeat behemoth before: \"No pot, no coke, no smack, no crack, no pills, no coke, no exception.\" Oh yes, it\'s the MD of DJmag outlining acceptable office commodity consumption. Or was it that dunce at Heathrow customs the other week? Anyway, the mantra gives it a bit of a Freeland meets Groove Diggerz feel, while \'Riddim N Culture\' is on more of a ragga tip. A rude boy skank piece, it\'s superbly crafted and guaranteed to nice up any dance. 4.5/5 DJ Magazine (UK) Jun08 - Track: Journeyman vs Barrcode: No Exception/Riddim n Culture This terrible twosome team up again for a couple of breakbeat stormers. No Exception uses a No pot, no coke, no smack, no crack, no pills, no exception monotone male vocal sample atop buzzin breakbeat production. It works nicely, and Riddim N Culture on the flip is a different beast altogether. A rocksteady skanking thing that uses Lee Scratch Perry samples and plenty of space for the track to breathe, it will fit perfectly into a dubwise set or early doors. 4/5 Carl Loben The Exeter List (UK) - Code Red Remix of Momentas Chronic Bass Code Red, aka J-Bass & Journeyman start their remix with a darker edge and a fatter bassline creeps in to great effect. Minimal sounding breakdowns, weaving sounds and a chugging and danceable buildup, as the track progresses, just when you think you have got the jist of it, it reaches dizzier heights! 5/5 Andromeda Neural Magazine - Wicked Style (Italy) - Track: Code Red: Bounce Bump Jump Shout/Uplift Yourself (translated italian/english) J-Bass & Journeyman have just been nominated at the Breakspoll awards for their radio show and they will certainly cut a fine figure also on the dance floor with this new release from Born Idle Records. Bounce Bump Jump Shout on side A is a rolling cut with a tech-funk base innerved with deep frequencies, acid synth lines and effects supported by spacey vocals filtered with an echo. The retro, Uplift Yourself, is as a very interesting track thanks to the tense atmospheres and a brillant bassline. The female vocal parts are good and have been well abused, diverting the attention to the rythmic treatments. These two diverse tracks deserve maximum respect and set James Bass and Ian Vilarelle in the premier league of nu skool sounds. Aurelio Cianciotta DJ Magazine (UK) - Track: Code Red: Bounce Bump Jump Shout/Uplift Yourself J-Bass & Journeyman return with this bouncy roller, which features an echoing voice imploring the clubber to make like the title suggests. Bouncy, rolling bassline and tech-funk stylings accentuate as it progresses before an ace wibbly acid line comes in to elevate it to a peak time affair. Meaty and bouncy. Flip her over for some more tech-filth, this time offset by a sample from a well-known old house track. The bassline is king on this, although it aint tearout, it may well tear you a new anus! 4/5 Carl Loben DJ Magazine (UK) - Track: Journeyman vs Barrcode: Wikkid Babylon With a title like this it was probably inevitable that this would be a dubwise breakbeat opus. What is surprising, though, is the restraint shown by these guys on this latest Born Idle massive. Perhaps influenced by a toke or two on da reefer, this is a track that could have been tailor-made for Tayo. Raspy bass, rasta chat and nice-up skank. Those DEF Inc boys seize the parts and throw out more of a rolling dancefloor number. Burbling dubby electronic b-line and scything stabs underpin their mix, and the natty dread vocals are used judiciously throughout. Dope release! 4/5 Carl Loben Neural Magazine - Wicked Style (Italy) - Track: Journeyman vs Barcode: Wikkid Babylon (translated italian/english) Ian Vilarelle and Adrian Barr together are Journeyman vs Barrcode. Their latest track is Wikkid Babylon out on Born Idle records which is managed by Ian Vilarelle with his friend and fellow nu skool producer J-Bass. The Jamaican style is fluent and epical moving with great pace and accompanied by an epic vocal. This record will be a classic in the reggae breaks genre thanks to the huge bass frequencies, the growing rhythm and the underlined melody using instruments that are appropriate. The remix from Def Inc is equally as good, its more fractured in the initial rhythm and has well consctructed synth lines. Essential. Aurelio Cianciotta DJ Magazine (UK) - Track: Code Red: Whip it Out Excellent floaty release from the mysterious Code Red that is gonna be infecting unsuspecting dancefloors in the weeks to come. A bouncy electro bassline has a breathy female vox intoning something like Raise your ripples o-er t-top, old hardcore keys punctuate before a gorgeous sweeping trancey string is overlain. Those pervy Porno Breaks guys twiddle their knobs to turn it into a fractured technoid stepper that is probably their best production to date. Quality double-header. 4.5/5 Carl Loben DJ Magazine (UK) - Track: Journeyman vs Barrcode: Blood for Blood Sounds like there are some psychotic demons stuck in the machines on the original of this, the growlings growing more menacing as the track progresses. 303 goes mental and bassline turns unexpected corners before it hammers home. Baobinga & I.D are on a roll at the moment, and here they pitch their mix midway between tear-out and trad plod. Sweeping cinematica in the breakdown before it elevates nicely to the next level. A quality late-night release. 4/5 Carl Loben Nu Skool Breaks.co.uk - Track: Journeyman vs Barrcode: Blood for Blood Hmmm nice, label boss J Bass has sent me a vinyl test pressing of the new Born Idle release. Good way to secure the review. LOL. But hey, no review unless it is worth reviewing and I reckon Blood For Blood serves up quality rolling breaks licked off with some nifty acid. Film score vocals garnish the drop-out before the beats return and a catchy synth riff driven 303 styli works the groove. Top Turn! BaoBinga & ID work the remix duties inducing bass, vocals, ride cymbals and huge synth cords without the acid. Jimmy Mofo International DJ Magazine - Track: J-Bass vs Journeyman: Orgazmatron Ladies and gentlemen, I can now unveil yet another useless generic specification: squelch step is its name and it will turn any self-respecting dancefloor into jelly. Sound cool? Then get your grippers on this bad boy. Squelched to the max with rock solid beats, this sways more than it grooves and it has got a killer old skool, synth led breakdown. Essential to the core. 5/5 Larry Nelson DJ Magazine (UK) - Track: J-Bass vs Journeyman: Rock That Shit This is one of the tunes I keep dropping during my monthly guest slot on Jimmy Mofos iBreaks.com show, and the weird thing is as soon as it comes on J-Bass enters the chatroom. Whooo, synchronicity. Much mirth follows, especially when we play a tune for the Pants Test (you have to be there, really). Anyway Rock That Shit rawwwwkks, and the Smithmonger remix is hot too and I recommend you click on the icon of an online record emporium and order one straight away. 4/5 Carl Loben Mofo Magazine - Track: J-Bass vs Journeyman: Rock That Shit “Rock that Shit” embraces tech-bottom overload in the bassline while scratchology dynamics sit effortlessly next to b-boy vocal attitude in the samples. Expect loads of belch and squelch and technoid broken beats in the dropout. Sure-fire dancefloor explosion. Flip for the Smithmonger remix who garnishes the bassline in dirty splendor while rinsing the vocal samples before an incessantly catchy riff builds to an enormous drop. Top remix! Jimmy Mofo Mofo Magazine - Track: Journeyman vs Barrcode: Time 2 Unite The initial drop of Time to Unite is London on a cool vibe, throwing down some skankin dubby influences and reggae vibes before a grimy gritty bassline rolls out some phat bottom-end bassline delivery interspersed with vocal hooks. Flip and discover the Control Z remix to really get down to some bouncy bassline business, completely lifting the tune and injecting bassline bounce and skankin dancefloor vibes. Jimmy Mofo DJ Magazine (UK) - Track: Journeyman vs Barrcode: Time 2 Unite Rewind to 1991 and Time 2 Unite comes over all breakbeat hardcore before dropping down into a neat dubby skank. When it kicks back in it could still be from 1991, apart from the immense junglist bassline that underpins the dionysian shuffle. Think Silver Bullet, think early Prodigy, think Chrome and Time, Q-Bass and Hyper on Experience - this sound is for the underground. Control Z focuses on the skank but overlays a neo-clownstep bass that S.C.A.M and Pendulum have been using of late. Flexing to the max. 4/5 Carl Loben