Kai - The Riddle EP

Release Date: December 19th, 2025

Label: Natty Dub Recordings

Riddles could well be a lost art, especially with AI destroying everything that requires a human brain. Thankfully Natty Dub’s latest signing from Kai attempts to flip the script with a selection of upfront slammers for your ears that may or may not include some puzzles to solve. Love your beats fresh out of raves from when Technics 1210’s were still the DJs weapon of choice? Welcome one and all..

‘Devil Bat’ strikes again, you say? Who would have thought a bat could call for the reload? It’s almost as if Kai went back in time, dug up some hardware and went back to basics. It’s as raw as intended and what a treat to play some music that actually makes you nod your head eh!

Street fighters anonymously scrap head to head to the roughneck tones of ‘Don’t You Know’. Another huge blow to the competition, firmly establishing Kai as a producer to watch in 2026.

Title track ‘The Riddle’ sits firmly in the mix of this glorious EP, providing B movie vocal samples aplenty alongside a standout snare that is as infectious as a Trouble on Vinyl release from way back when... you know the one don’t you?..

Dare to ‘Know it All’ about drum & bass and you could be left stuck to your laptop, arguing 24 hours a day on Facebook about when the ‘golden era of jump up was’. Thankfully, we all know it was 1996 and Kai gladly delivers a huge slap of said influence here.

Blends of old and new styles collide, one side rooted in the era of classic jump up, the other loading USB sticks full of fresh goodness. Buy on sight.

Posted By Rob745