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Chase & Status: How DnB Crashed the UK Charts
How Chase & Status snuck heavy drum and bass onto UK daytime radio with No More Idols, never softened the bass, and ended up rave elder statesmen.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Hybrid Minds - Avalanche
Read more . . . →Hybrid Minds occupy this specific lane in drum and bass where the rollers are gorgeous and the emotions are doing real work, and “Avalanche” is them operating at full power. The vocal sits right in that bittersweet zone they’ve made their whole identity, longing without tipping into cheese. Then the drop hits and the bassline rolls out smooth as anything, propulsive but never aggressive, the kind of groove you could ride for ten minutes and not get bored. I’ve seen people dismiss liquid as background music for dinner parties, and those people are wrong and probably also bad at parties....
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Andy C: The Case for the Greatest DnB DJ Alive
Best drum and bass DJ alive? Andy C. Not close. The double-drop king who founded RAM, filled Wembley solo, and still out-DJs everyone he signed.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Hospital Records, Explained (And What It Gets Right and Wrong)
Hospital Records made drum and bass beautiful — then forgot how to make it scary. The defense and the indictment of DnB's biggest liquid label.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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The 25 Best Drum & Bass Tracks of All Time, Ranked
The 25 best drum & bass tracks of all time, ranked. From Goldie to Photek to a #1 pick that built the whole genre. Yes, your favorite is too low.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Every Subgenre of Drum & Bass, Explained (With a Track for Each)
DnB isn't a genre, it's a federation. Jungle to halftime, neurofunk to liquid — 9 drum & bass subgenres explained with one track each.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Freaks & Geeks x DUX - Cut Em Down
Read more . . . →Monstercat dropping a Freaks & Geeks and DUX collab is the kind of news that makes me check my phone twice. “Cut Em Down” is a brutal, no-nonsense slice of drum and bass that wastes absolutely no time getting to the point. The intro is barely there before the whole thing caves in on itself in the best way, a drop so heavy it feels almost rude. There’s a darkness to the bass design that gives it real teeth, the sound of a track made by people who like their DnB mean. What I appreciate is the economy of it,...
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Viridity - Up To Fate
Read more . . . →Shogun Audio has been a quiet powerhouse in DnB for years, the label that puts out the stuff serious heads geek out over while the mainstream looks elsewhere. Viridity’s “Up To Fate” is squarely in that lineage: technical, deep, and built with obvious care rather than chasing a trend. This sits in the darker, more cerebral end of the genre, where the focus is on detailed drum programming and a low end that hums with quiet menace instead of screaming for attention. It’s headphone music in the best sense, full of small details that only reveal themselves on the third...
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Dawn Wall - You Believe
Read more . . . →Dawn Wall keep flying slightly under the radar and I don’t fully understand why, because tracks like “You Believe” are exactly what people claim they want from modern drum and bass. It’s got that uplifting, slightly euphoric quality the genre does better than almost any other, built around a vocal hook that lodges itself in your skull within one listen. The drums are crisp and snappy, the bass is rolling and full, and the whole thing just moves with this effortless forward pull. What gets me is how clean the arrangement is, nothing wasted, every drop earning its place. There’s...
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OKO & XLVR - Think About Your Love
Read more . . . →Another Monstercat drop, and this one swings the other direction from the heavy stuff: bright, melodic DnB built around a soulful vocal sample that loops just enough to get stuck in your skull for the rest of the day. OKO and XLVR clearly know each other’s instincts, because the track flows like one brain made it rather than two producers emailing stems back and forth. The breakbeat is fast without feeling frantic, which is harder to pull off than people think. What gets me is the restraint. They could have buried the vocal under a wall of synths and instead...
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