One day it may take a biographer some time to sort out all the aliases and collabs that have occurred within the dubstep community of Toronto and Ottawa. From Loetech and High Deaf to Kingpin Sound and Bombaman/Matt Carl/etc, it's a bit hard to sort out who's who within each production half the time. This particular collaboration between DZ & XI, due to its titling, lacks much of the mystery of many of the aforementioned names, but easily makes up for that trait in raw power.

"Guns At Dawn", on the A side of this release, Is easily one of the most anticipated productions associated with DZ to come forward, even when one considers the relentless list of best selling 12"s on labels from Black Acre to Off Road and Hotflush in recent history. Essentially a more hip hop influenced track with regards to the syncopation of its rhythm and melody, the space between these two frenetic arc points fill such a massive area in an ambient space once heavily amplified that the sheer physical push of those elements creates an enormous push and pull of air from the soundsystem, akin to a lumbering, mythical beast breathing. It truly can be a frightening experience, and as a tune tends to overpower any track it is being mixed from.

"Showtime" and "Annapolis" Round out the B side, but are no less characteristic of genius at work, the former being built around a pummeling stab of a FM synthesis styled bassline, and the latter a unusually driving vocal pict.