- Hot tip: the best UK garage is coming out of Los Angeles.
- Introspekt's take on UK garage and house music hits so hard because she knows the fundamentals are the most important part. Just listen to anything off her blockbuster Forlorn EP from last month: it goes right for the jugular, with a mix of hard-jacking swing and wobbling basslines that recalls El-B or Horsepower Productions at their best.
This means that whatever she tries sounds fresh and powerful in her hands. Her new EP for T4T LUV NRG, features edits of beyond-rinsed classics like Hardrive's "Deep Inside," yet makes them feel giddy and exciting all over again. The title track is the secret weapon, though, focusing less on vocals and more on the wide, swampy basslines, with a midrange rudeness some others might be too shy fully unleash. Not Introspekt, though: she's fierce, fearless and one of the best UK garage producers in the world at the moment.