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Basstripper - Questions
Basstripper keeps proving jump-up DnB isn't the genre's junk food. Questions is bouncy, dumb in the best way, and you can hear him grinning.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Dawn Wall - Moscow Drive
Dawn Wall's melodic drum and bass moves fast and still feels wide open. Nearly burned dinner standing frozen in the kitchen for this one.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Blooom & Duskee - LOCKDOWN
Blooom brings Duskee's unmistakable bark back for a DnB tune that's heavy as hell. If you know the voice, you already know the damage.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Lateral - On Fire
Read more . . . →The breakdown at 1:48 is the best thing here: everything drops to a single reverbed vocal and a sub that hums like a fridge in an empty flat, and for about eight bars On Fire is genuinely tense. Then the drop lands and it is fine. That is the honest verdict. Lateral can obviously build a moment, but this one spends its good idea early and coasts the back half on a bassline I have heard a hundred times on Viper this year. It is competent dancefloor DnB that will do real damage in a set and then evaporate by...
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Benny L - Revenge
Benny L has never once made a subtle record and this isn't the first. Roller DnB with the gain buried in the red, built for a sweaty 2am room.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Arcando & IRAH - Killer Instinct
Arcando and IRAH went full predator on this drum and bass tune. Ferocious, no filler, and it makes your speakers feel like prey.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Levity - Slipping Away (feat. K Flay)
Read more . . . →How did Levity get K Flay onto a drum and bass record, and why does it work this well? Slipping Away is the kind of collaboration that reads like a label fever dream on paper, a UK bass producer and an American alt-rock singer with a voice like a lit cigarette, and the match turns out better than it has any business being. K Flay does not soften herself for the dancefloor. She brings the same flat, bruised delivery she uses on her own records and lets the production build the drama around her, which is exactly the correct instinct....
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Arcando & IRAH - Killer Instinct
Read more . . . →Got in from a soaked bus ride, put this on to dry off, and it did the opposite of calming me down. Arcando is one of those Dutch producers who treats drum and bass like it should still feel dangerous, and Killer Instinct earns the title without resorting to the usual jump-up clown horns. IRAH’s vocal rides high and a little desperate over the top, the kind of topline that would sit fine on a pop record until the low end arrives and reminds you what room you walked into. The bassline has a rubbery Rotterdam weight to it, rolling...
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goddard. - Lillies (ft. Jazmine Johnson)
goddard. teams up with Jazmine Johnson on Lillies, liquid DnB that goes down like warm honey. Dangerously easy to replay all afternoon.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Cartoon & Artino - Ultraviolet
Cartoon and Artino's Ultraviolet is melodic DnB that glows. Bright, fast, and a little emotional. We were not prepared. Play it loud.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
