At long last, Night Slugs drop a full five-track EP from the label's co-founder Bok Bok. Representing his full gamut of influences as well as his label's hypercolour, bottom-heavy, club-ready aesthetic, the Southside EP is an extend manifesto of a release for the South London DJ / producer. The five tracks within share a core sound palette, one that merges raw and convulsive acid house with functionalist 8-bar grime: the warm sound of vintage drum machines and analog bass combined with the razor-sharp, dystopian digital dread of noxious sawtooths and gliding squares. Exalted bells welcome you to the Southside before the "Charisma Theme" comes crashing into a drop of jackin 808 drums, its two call-and-response acid lines morphing around each other in systemic turns. "Hyperpass" unfolds with a thunderstorm sequence, as a warped spoken-world vocal announces its dominance before delivering a core mantra: "trax gotta get made". Raw and cavernous, it's built to dominate the darkest warehouses. "Reminder" is the most direct cut of the batch, an uncompromising 8-bar number featuring an ominous sublow tone that trades places with a row of jackhammer pulses, framed by tuff 909s to fully work your body out. "Silo Pass" is Bok Bok's ode to his beloved Techno-tinged Grime productions of the early 2000s, reconstructed for 2011 as a crunked-up squarewave floor destroyer, complete with a gleaming arpeggiator sequence, birdsong, clattering rimshots and soaring, fluorescent chords. Finally, the bonus track "Look" borrows the skeleton of BB's "IRL" remix, adding a dread-enducing sustained siren tone. The result is a lurching electrofied monster of a rhythm track. Modular, geometric, stripped down and emotive, this is Bok Bok showcasing his definitive sound....