Artist: Logistics
Album: Reality Checkpoint
Label: Hospital
Release: 31 March 2008

Just 18 months after his debut album, Now More Than Ever, drum & bass superstar Logistics proves his quality and astonishing work rate with second album, Reality Checkpoint.

Logistics is an artist who has always managed to combine real musicality and soul with the production sheen and weight necessary for D&B dancefloors. As such you’re just as likely to hear one of his tracks blasted out by Andy C at One Nation as by Cyantific at Hospitality. Thankfully this is something evident in Reality Checkpoint.

Kicking off with the disjointed, rolling brilliance of “Daybreak Sequence”, that trademark Logistics sound hits you straight away, with its typically immaculate, driving and euphoric force. Don’t be fooled though; Reality Checkpoint is an LP that shows different sides to the young Cambridge producer’s musical personality.

The break heavy “Lullaby”, the pure junglism of the aptly titled “96″, the melodic darkness of “Waiting Line” and the electro inspired “Glitch” are all stunning pieces of electronic music that reference some of the finest moments in the evolution of drum & bass. Where the album really sparkles though is when Logistics flexes his originality on tracks such as the half-time, sinister “Cold World”, the gloriously experimental 2Step twist of “Cocoon” and the syncopated bassline funk of “Trying Times”.

Hyperbole is often bandied about far too easily in drum & bass but there really aren’t enough adjectives and gushing metaphors to do justice to the brilliance, maturity and depth delivered by Logistics over Reality Checkpoint’s 14 tracks.