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Single review: Breakage feat Jess Mills – Fighting Fire (Digital Soundboy)

By | Published on Tuesday 15 February 2011

Breakage

‘Foundation’, last year’s album from Breakage, aka James Boyle, really showed promise in the drum and bass, so if you played me this track cold and told me it was from the same producer, I’d think you were pulling my lower limb. But you wouldn’t be.

‘Fighting Fire’ is little bit prog house and very trancey. There’s a few flecks of dubstep in there – but only a trace. So it’s a radical departure from ‘Foundation’. Why he’s gone this route I don’t know, though it’s possible he wants to crack the charts by any means necessary. The cinematic vocal from Jess Mills is well delivered, but very generic for this type of track.

The Loadstar remix sounds much more like what I was expecting – a long intro, then into a proper drum and bass backdrop, with a touch of the Hoover bassline in there too. Meawnhile, the Foamo remix builds well, and takes it proper dubstep. It’s these remixes that’ll make it to my iPod, while the original will be discarded and (hopefully) forgotten. PV

Physical release: 28 Feb



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