Ezmun presents Cooking With Gas 12, a two-hour drum and bass special on Scientific Sound Asia. Scientific Sound Asia is an electronic music radio station, DJ agency, promoter and music-news platform connecting audiences across Asia and internationally.
Cooking With Gas is Ezmun's weekly dose of all things percussive, groovy and dark. A friend asked him to record a mix at 180 BPM because the tempo works well as a running soundtrack, and episode 12 delivers two hours of drum and bass from melodic and liquid selections through dark, techy and footwork sounds towards jump up.
Ezmun is originally from Cumbria in the United Kingdom and had relocated to Vietnam to pursue his ambitions as a DJ and producer. At the time, COVID-19 forced him to relocate temporarily to Melbourne, from where he planned to release a weekly show centred on his favourite sounds.
Like many DJs, Ezmun began in his bedroom before playing house parties with close friends and cohorts. In 2019, he moved into clubs, playing venues in Manchester, Hanoi, Laos and Ho Chi Minh City.
Enamoured with the dark, sparse atmosphere of minimal half-time 140s and the lairy clatter of percussive leftfield bass, he uses both as peaks and troughs within an energetic techno setting. He was building a profile in Vietnam's underground and hoped to return there.
In the meantime, he planned to explore the Melbourne underground scene and develop his production skills with the aim of releasing his own music the following year. Cooking With Gas also gave him space to showcase friends and undiscovered DJs while examining the genres he loves in greater detail.
Ezmun's Cooking With Gas 12 drum and bass special opens with Hidden Agenda's The Flute Tune on Metalheadz and Dilemma's With You on Soulvent Records. Baodub's Find the Dub on Moonshine Recordings, Hidden Agenda's No Man's Land on Metalheadz and Lost State's New Dawn on Dubtastic establish the melodic and liquid side of Drum and Bass.
Decon's Madcap remix of Three Rivers on Jazzsticks Recordings follows before Dilemma's Insomniac on Dubtastic. Flowrian and Simstah's You Knew on Jazzsticks Recordings, MC Fats and L-Side's Steppa Dub on V Recordings, and Stunna, Calculon and Depth Range's Sugar Bear on Shoot Recordings keep the opening stretch focused on drum and bass.
Nativ and Sorted Seizure bring Virus on Dubtastic into Able's Lacura on Critical Music. ReDraft, Metafloor and Groves' Get It on Vandal Limited and Kray's Dye on Shoot Recordings introduce Bass / Club pressure before Calculon, Dave Owen and ReDraft's Kill & Collect returns to Shoot Recordings' drum and bass.
Fletcha's Abstrakt on Dubtastic leads into Hyroglifics' God Given on Critical Music. Inva and M. Justa's Gibber on Vandal Records and Enei, Jakes and Particle's Fame on Critical Music deepen the programme's darker, techy passage.
Mikal's At the Controls feat. Xtrah on Metalheadz is followed by Hybris' The Cleaner on Critical Music and Dunk's Underground on Vandal Records. Alibi's Shurikan on V Recordings then makes room for Calculon and Austin Speed's Get Murked on Shoot Recordings, a Breaks selection within the set's late movement.
Velocity's Untitled Roller on Jazzsticks Recordings and Beat Merchants' Mandelah on V Recordings carry the final run forward. S.P.Y's Clouds on Hospital Records, DJ Dangerous' Sunday Blues on Ten Ton Beats and B Cloud's Enei remix of Deeper on Aerial Vibes close the full-length 12-inch format with drum and bass at the forefront.
Cooking With Gas Episode 12 12th of July 2020
Hidden Agenda - The Flute Tune
Dilemma - With You
Baodub - Find the Dub
Hidden Agenda - No Man’s Land
Lost State - New Dawn
Decon - Three Rivers (Madcap Remix)
Dilemma - Insomniac
Flowrian, Simstah - You knew
MC Fats, L-Side - Steppa Dub
Stunna, Calculon, Depth Range - Sugar Bear
Nativ, Sorted Seizure - Virus
Able - Lacura
ReDraft, Metafloor, Groves - Get It
Kray - Dye
Calculon, Dave Owen, Redraft - Kill & Collect
Fletcha - Abstrakt
Dub Phizix, Fox - Never Been
Hyroglifics - God Given
Inva, M. Justa - Gibber
Enei, Jakes, Particle - Fame
Mikal - At the controls feat. Xtrah
Hybris - The Cleaner
Dunk - Underground
Alibi - Shurikan
Calculon, Austin Speed - Get Murked
Velocity - Untitled Roller
Beat Merchants - Mandelah
S.P.Y - Clouds
DJ Dangerous - Sunday Blues
B Cloud - Deeper (Enei Remix)
Listen on Mixcloud here.