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Modestep & H808 - Bugatti (Pythius Remix)
Read more . . . →Pythius doesn’t remix so much as repossess. He’s taken Modestep and H808’s “Bugatti” and dragged it into neurofunk territory, which means the bass no longer wobbles, it snarls, folds in on itself, and comes out sounding like a modem having a breakdown at 174 BPM. The original had that Modestep dubstep-rock swagger; Pythius keeps the attitude and swaps the engine for something with teeth. Modestep have always straddled the line between live-band chaos and studio bass music, so handing this to a producer who deals purely in precision is a funny move that pays off. The tear-out section past the...
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Leetthews & Cammie Robinson - Who Do You Run To
Read more . . . →This one snuck up on me. “Who Do You Run To” is Leetthews and Cammie Robinson doing melodic drum and bass on Monstercat, and it’s got that clean, emotional-but-danceable thing the label has basically turned into a house style. Cammie Robinson has one of those voices Monstercat keeps in heavy rotation for a reason, warm, a little fragile, easy to build a big release around. The drop rolls rather than slams, all rounded bass and quick breaks, the kind of DnB you can play for people who swear they don’t like DnB and watch them nod along anyway. It’s the...
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Kanine & Jem Cooke - Surrender
Kanine and Jem Cooke's Surrender is more proof the guy can't stop making great vocal drum and bass. Reliable is underrated.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Everything But The Girl - Run A Red Light (Logistics Remix)
Tracey Thorn's voice meets Logistics' liquid drum and bass on Run A Red Light — a full-circle, genuinely gorgeous remix.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Rudimental, Original Koffee & Winny - Send Shots
Read more . . . →This is the most fun Rudimental have sounded to me in years, and I say that as someone who checked out around the third radio-friendly ballad. “Send Shots” drops the stadium-soul earnestness and remembers the crew came up making drum and bass that actually moves. Pulling in Original Koffee is the move that makes it — that unhurried Jamaican bounce that sits half a step behind the beat and drags the whole track into a swagger. Winny takes the faster bars and the two trade off like they’re winding each other up. Underneath, the drums do proper liquid-dnb business, rolling...
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REAPER & DON DARKOE - SUFFOCATING (ft. Adalaide Adams)
Read more . . . →When did drum and bass decide it wanted to sound like a panic attack, and why do I like it this much? “SUFFOCATING” lives in the darker, half-industrial corner of the genre — REAPER and DON DARKOE build the drop out of a bassline that grinds like machinery with a bearing about to go, and Adalaide Adams sings over the top with a fragile, almost pretty topline the production keeps trying to swallow whole. That tension is the entire point: the more delicate the vocal gets, the heavier and more claustrophobic the low end presses in around it. When the...
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One Last Drop
Read more . . . →Luude has over a billion streams and your uncle still thinks DnB died in 2003. 1. Luude ft. Inéz - Never Adds Up Inéz’s vocal gets chopped and pitched and rearranged like luggage on a budget airline and somehow it still makes emotional sense. Luude’s whole move is taking drum and bass to stadiums and festival mainstages and making it work without sanding the edges off. The bassline is wobbly in a way that’s clearly designed for a crowd to lose their minds to, and then the vocal comes back in clean for the chorus and it hits different after...
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The Upbeats - Haunted
The Upbeats' Haunted is neurofunk built like a horror sound designer got hold of a break. It wants your attention, not your hands in the air.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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BOP - Rumination
Read more . . . →This is the one off this week’s pile I’ve gone back to the most, and it isn’t close. “Rumination” is BOP working the deep, melodic liquid drum and bass lane that’s made a name at Hospital Records — lush, unhurried, more interested in mood than muscle. The intro takes its time, layering a warm pad and a lonely piano figure before the drums even think about arriving, and when they do it’s a soft, rolling break that carries you rather than shoves you. The bassline is a low, round sub you feel in your chest more than your ears, and...
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Anaïs & Olivia Rose - Round Town
Anais and Olivia Rose stack harmonies until Round Town feels twice as wide as it should be. Play it for anyone who thinks dnb all sounds the same.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
