South London beatsmith Dylan Richards aka King Cannibals’ tracks have been punishing soundsystems and causing structural damage around London for some time now. His unique take on dancehall bashment infuses it's infectious, brutal body-juddering riddims with the ferocious drum programming and dissonant, high-tech filth of late 90's jungle.

A1 Badman near dark (original) - Android snarls, a charging, filthy bassline and superbly fierce drumwork make this the bastard crossover between hard electronic dancehall like The Bug and Stereotyp, and late 90's techy jungle dons of Dillinja, Nico, Ed Rush and Optical. Fierce and heavy on the bass yet rhythmically agile and laced with dissonant atmospherics, Near Dark is mutant tech dancehall for Predator skanking, amid burning cities and the total collapse of civilisation.

A2 Badman near dark (Stormfield's burning cities remix) - Combat boss Stormfield mutates the 105bpm original into a 140bpm assault track that sits somewhere between the filthy rolling breaks and beats of Rag'n'Bone, and the deep electro of Monolake or acid excursions of Skam's Rob Hall. Caging a militant riddim around the original rolling bassline to give a broken, yet powerful dancefloor effect that that stops just short of being 4/4 techno, it kicks into full sprint from the first drop and draws the listener in from there.

B1 Badman near dark (Komonazmuk remix) - Bristolian Kieran Lomax (aka Ice Minus of Moving Shadow / Renegade Hardware) steps up in his Komonazmuk guise to rework the track into a colossal dubstep monster. An early version of this was previewed on King Cannibal's Radio 1 set courtesy of Mary Anne Hobbs, during the Scorn vs. King Cannibal sound-off. Similar to his co-productions with White Boi on Combat13 & 14, he builds an expectedly powerful and menacing soundsystem track, like some snarling alien beast trapped behind an impenetrably solid wall of bass and drumwork.

Big things are happening for The Cannibal this year, having been recently signed to Ninja Tune, and with DJ support from right across the board and a load of gigs lined up. Expect a load of amazingly ferocious tracks that no labels have dared to release... until now.