Jon E. Cash Battle

• Words: Tomas
• Label: Below 40 Hz
• XLR8R Rating: /10

UK-chart topping Cash splashed down at Miami's Winter Music Conference this year with his bleak and sinister grime sound, countering the city's coastal sunshine with his brutal mechanical beats. Surely he rattled some skulls at the Transatlantic party with his two recent cannon blasts "Kettle" and "Battle". Fans of Dizzee and Wiley will be stuck like 3M adhesive to Cash's brash synth workouts. "Battle"'s typewriter snare clicks and thunderclap accents could fire up an entire Marine battalion before an assault. War music for a war era.