The new EP from Rotterdam’s Noiz Boiz, “Zwarre Bassen, Zware Beats”, is out now and available for free download via their website. And yo, you need to check this out. On both the MC side and the beat side, things are dope. Mucky handles a majority of the beats, but others such as Hayzee, Gomes and Dion47 also add sometimes, but never disrupting the flow of things. There are uptempo tunes, more relaxed ones, but overall its extremely grimey and has more punchy bass and beats than the wobbly dubstep kind.

On the MC side, things are solid too. XL does his thing and goes in without some fake gangsterish threats or bragging about designer sun glasses. Plenty of other heads swing by for some verses too, such as Skinto, Zwart Licht and Boef & de Gelogeerde Aap, and that helps keep things interesting. Top it off with the host of things, Don de Baron, who I think makes the whole thing fun (hard not to like someone shouting out Brrrap! Brrrap!). Some might find him a bit too DJ Khaled-like, I think overall his hyping works out on the album.

Pretty dope release here, grimey, not fake, interseting, and it bumps, what more can you want. Overall I found Track 6, Tegenstand my favorite and also find myself wishing I’d made it to their release party over the weekend, heard it sold it up. Big up guys!

Rob Sparx is a pretty chill dude. We ran into him at Dub City a few months back, and had quick little chat about his upcoming album, Amsterdam, and such. Not long, but enough to realize the guy was level headed and serious about his music. He’s been in the game for a while, and is now finally getting around to releasing his album : Trooper. We reviewed it in our last issue – so go read that if you haven’t already. In order to promote it a bit, Sparx has just put out a cool little mix with mainly his tunes & remixes. Check it out for taste of whats on the album.

download the mix

track listing:

1 Rob Sparx – Liquid Soul
2 Baby D – Let me be your Fantasy (Refix)
3 Rob Sparx – The Funk
4 Rob Sparx – Independent Life (sub heavy mix)
5 Unknown Artist – Zion Road
6 Bar9 – Shaolin Style (Rmx Sparx Rmx)
7 Rob Sparx – Vagabundo
8 Numbernin6 – Mannequins
9 Rob Sparx vs John Maveric – Stroller