Intiman & Foreign Beggars - Hit That

No guesses for the level of performance Foreign Beggars’ Orifice Vulgatron and Metropolis give. Heck, they’ve already had a track called 'Hit That Gash' to begin with, and while they’re only offering insight on how they smash up clubs while grabbing for booze, birds and cash, there are few better to hand the sledgehammers to. Intiman’s beats are very loud and juvenile, the Italian who last year was caught messing with the Jungle Brothers flinging a monstrous ABV brew of fidget/bass house and screeching breaks/guitars on the hook, like a bouncy castle that suddenly gets slashed. Though the budding rock star thing isn’t a good look, the whole thing is so darned severe on your ears that you probably won’t care mid-crowd-surf.

Fellow Italian Maztek makes excruciating breaks knocking on the door of frenzied electro-house (like John Dahlback’s 'Blink', torched) on a remix with a Godzilla-sized build-up that should suit the Beggars quite nicely. It nearly drowns out the hard-to-quieten Mr Vulgatron, who is revelling in the pottiness of the situation, while Metro does his usual strong straight talking in a bid to wade through the slaughter of ear’oles. Then, after the most palpitating of breakdowns, Maztek decides on a drumstep blast-off where a lack of mobility (and a bit of a mess when it comes to direction) is more than made up for by the decimation of decibel levels and leaving punters stumped when asking them whether they’re coming or going.

Calvertron goes with convention on a bouncy piece of dubstep-grazed breaks. It’s typical, you’re after something a little calmer, but this almost comes off too soft once the decks are scrubbed. So while it skids and judders in bright colours, it attains a junior status that doesn’t graduate to the zombie apocalypse levels of the previous two.