Spain’s heavyweight breaks producer, DJ, and label owner Evil Sound celebrated his 40th birthday in spectacular fashion a few months back by releasing the free 40-track compilation 40. Not one to dwell on reaching an age so many people dread reaching, EvilSound instead spent his time in the run-up to his birthday focusing on curating the celebratory compilation that is largely made up of music sent over to him by friends he’s made during his music career and once-rostered artists of Evil Records.
Sticking to the same multi-genre format as he did with Evil Records when it was in its heyday (2005 – 2015), EvilSound has made sure that his birthday offering has a little something for everyone, although nu-breaks fans are the most catered for. In terms of music that isn’t of a nu-breaks flavour, the compilation kicks off with a mind-cleansing trio of deep and beatless electronica tracks from Maik Falls, Bear, The Storyteller and Livelüla, while Groovegardener and JM Weinx provide a couple of dark and intense breakbeat tracks around the 120bpm mark. Lovers of 4/4-led sounds should look out for music by Christian Szer and Jose Franko and garage fans are treated to a couple of crisp cuts from Jay Groove and MURIX.
Onto the full-fat breaks tunes and plentiful they are. Tony Lizana, Maceo Rivas, AC1TZ and Raggafá bring the rave with an assortment of piano and acid-led warehouse weapons, while JMKL, Bubble Couple, Hankook, The Beatkillers, Drum Invaders and many others, deliver the peak-time bombs that’ll blow the place up. Evil Sound has also thrown a handful of tracks into the ring and the pick of those has to be his immense remix of Future Funk Squads’ – Delete –. As you’re about to hear, there are a lot of impressive tunes on offer for little or no money, so get on this one so you own all of them forever.
It’s well worth pointing out that EvilSound has also been uploading a ton of archived material from Evil Records and if you’ve loved what you heard here, the Soundcloud and Bandcamp links are the ones to click on to find all of that. Enjoy the music folks. There’s lots of it!
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