The music of both L-Vis 1990 and Night Slugs—the label he co-founded with the producer Bok Bok in 2010—offers a definitive look into the kind of styles that were ruling the underground in the latter part of the 2000s and well into the 2010s. L-Vis 1990’s hybridized approach to dance music drew from the long continuum of British hardcore and American club music; it was both prickly and populist, corroded and candy-coated. After a six-year respite from the L-Vis moniker to focus on his big room-leaning project Dance System, the producer returned in 2023 with a grip of new tracks. On RESURRECTION DUBS (RELOADED), that body of work is revisited along with some new entries, three of them Nina exclusives.

The quality level is high here. These tracks sound like a reenergized version of the producer’s bedrock sound. These tracks feel like they have condensed the entire contemporary history of British bass music into compact little nuggets. UK funky drum patterns and breakbeats share space with woozy bass and fluttering synths. Slow-motion jungle unfolds over stinging kicks. The three Nina-exclusive tracks here are just as solid. “Club Tools” is aptly named; the track is a pounding jack-a-thon that could find its way into the boxes of a variety of DJs across a variety of genres. Another Nina Bonus Material special: Anyone who picks up the full release will also access exclusive stems to the L-Vis track “Take It Off.”