It’s debut album time for Peckham’s Wbeeza. After three well-received eps on Third Ear Recordings, he has been packaged as ‘the House Music traditionalists’ saviour’ in some quarters. But this doesn’t explain his favour with UK Bass music’s party promoters and artists, and with the new generation of dancers who don’t know what House music is any more than they know who Frankie Knuckles is. Wbeeza’s music is clearly steeped in House music. But it’s the musicality of House and the honesty of House music that he is vibing on, and that comes from music before House. He has an identifiable sound which goes beyond House into Hip Hop, Funk, minimalism, slo mo beats, Jazz, dissonance, Techno (which is House anyway according to many who make Techno) and yes, the bass. Wbeeza’s kick drum manipulations and bass frequency modulation, heard clearly in his live show are driving his popularity with the bass heads in the current UK scene as much as his single...