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Digital: Catch A Fire

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Artist: Digital
Title: Catch A Fire
Format: 12"
Label: Function Records (@)
Rated: * * * * *
After a five years lasting period of inactivity, the appreciated producer Digital keeps on feedng his own imprint Function Records by a couple of his release. The first one "Respek Da Foundation", which includes a collaborative track with Macunian dnb producer N Owen aka Response and a remix of Digital's "Deadline" by George Ovens aka Dub Phizix, was a celebrative release for 20 years of activity of Digital. "Catch A Fire" is the second ring of the hopefully long chain of Function and includes many stylistical hooks to older rings by Digital. Such a welcomed connection with the past, which could be considered more as an act of devotion than a fit of nostalgia, is clear since the igniting track of this release, "Rejection", whose alarming sound, the solid clustered bassline and the double gangways where Digital lets amen break spin (a subterranean one, which is clearly audible on the beginnign of the track, before the one on a higher ground begins) are typical hooks of 90ies junglists, and a certain old school nuance seems to float around the more atmospheric sonorities of "Light Years", the new bicephalous tune he co-signed together with the above-mentioned Response. Digital reduces the spped, but not the effectiveness of his music, on the title-track "Catch A Fire", a really astonishing assay of likewise old-fashioned heavyweight dub. Unmissable release for all those listeners who miss those kind of vibes, which used to shake dancehalls in between the second half of 90ies and first part of new millenium.

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