H Various Artists "Meal Time": My friends had gotten me for my birthday the ultimate toy for taking far too much drugs and sitting in front of the TV all night (i.e. a Playstation and wipeout), so now the search was on to find the ultimate sound track that was going to be piped into my Pioneer SE-M250's (also the fucking proverbial dogs bollocks). And I didnt have to look far. Holy shit. The first track by Jega, entitled D.M.C., just doesnt flow out of the headphones, it fucking attacks your brain cells with each fresh menacing drill beat. I think I nearly had a heart attack when I heard this. And then this crazy melody builds up, it sounds like so me circus music gone mad. This track is truly amazing and I've heard a lot about Jega on the net, he's signed to Autechre's Skam label, and although I've never seen any Skam stuff for sale in any Dublin shops, I'll definitely be keeping my eyes peeled for it in the future. Other drill-influenced tracks are Wafta's "Morpeth Issot" and Point Blank's "Eternally", which melts drum'n'bass down to the bare essentials and then completely loops it backwards and fucks it up completely, with one of the biggest, deepest, hardest breakdowns that had my ears crying for more pain. Other tracks that stood out are Plug's "Argos", which flows along nicely, with some harp strums in the backgroundm and suddenly turns into this huge big beat d'n'b number, the beats are so fucking chunky you can just see all the people at Skint and Wall Of Sound crying with jealousy, and all over it theres this downward spiralling piano sample which moulds well into the beats; AFX's (Aphex Twin) track "bummy" was not quite what I expected - considering the opener by Jega, I thought this one was going to be all drills, but its not, its quite easy on the brain, very interesting little guitar strums woven into the usual Aphex noise, the track also has changing time signatures which is pretty co ol, not that much attention is paid to them on this LP anyway; the Red Snapper track "Get Some Sleep Tiger" from the Prince Blimey LP is remixed nicely by Plaid (although the trainspotters among you will already have this track from the B-Side of the Mooking Remixes 12"); and u-ziq does his usual madness with two tra cks at the end. The rest of the 12 tracks are pretty good - just that the ones mentioned stood out. The compilation is fairly speedy, defintely not for those with pacemakers. It *is* definitely worth a purchase.