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Kings Of The Rollers & Grace Barton - Should've Known Better
Kings Of The Rollers and Grace Barton prove jump up DnB can have feelings and still rattle your ribs. Should've known better, played it twice anyway.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Lateral - Le Rock
Lateral's Le Rock is jump up DnB with a goofy swagger and a drop that actually hits. Fun in the best, dumbest, loudest way.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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S.P.Y - Step & Flow (US + THEM Remix)
Read more . . . →The bass note anchoring this drop is a single sustained growl that sits about a semitone lower than feels comfortable, and that slight wrongness is the whole hook. Step & Flow is an S.P.Y track reworked by US + THEM, and it keeps the Brazilian producer’s deep, rolling sensibility while roughing up the edges. S.P.Y has spent years as one of Hospital Records’ most reliable hands, the guy who can make 174 feel like a slow groove, and the original leans on that patient, soulful roll. This remix adds grit, a darker low end and a more menacing swing, without...
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Flava D & Stush - Energy (Napes Remix)
Read more . . . →The original Energy was a dubstep tune, all weight and half-time swagger, so hearing Napes drag it up to drum and bass tempo does something clever: the Stush vocal that sat heavy over the original now has to sprint to keep up, and it sounds better for the chase. Flava D has spent years refusing to pick a lane, bouncing between UKG, dubstep and a whole drum and bass album on Hospital, and her tracks survive this kind of surgery because the bones are strong. Stush brings that raw, patois-inflected toughness UK dance music has always been better with, a...
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Eli Brown & Dimension - Frequency
Eli Brown and Dimension don't usually share a lane and the collision is the whole point. Frequency is drum and bass with a seat belt missing.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Kanine - Release Me (ft. INDI) (VIP)
If you've been near a drum and bass room lately, you've heard Kanine's Release Me. The VIP just made the original sound underdressed.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Andromedik - Feel For You (ft. BARBZ)
Andromedik's drop made me stop at a crosswalk and miss the light. Feel For You with BARBZ is drum and bass that's rude to pedestrians.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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QZB & Duskee - Colder At The Peak
QZB and Duskee make drum and bass like they grew up on a mountain border, not a London estate. Colder At The Peak is icy and unusual.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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BOP & Degs - Island On My Own (ft. Gabriella Bongo)
Read more . . . →If you have been clocking BOP’s name on track after track lately, Island On My Own shows you the songwriter rather than just the breakbeat scientist. This one is built around voices, Degs delivering his warm half-sung half-spoken flow and Gabriella Bongo floating a gorgeous hook over the top, and the drum and bass underneath almost serves them instead of the other way round. It is liquid at its most song-shaped, verses and a chorus you could hum in the shower, the breakbeat rolling gently enough that the whole thing could pass for a soul record that happens to run...
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BOP & Logistics - Miles and Miles
Read more . . . →How do you make a track that just rolls for five minutes and never once gets boring? The amen break is the answer, and the one in Miles and Miles is chopped with a looseness that tells you immediately these are two producers who came up on jungle, not on presets. BOP and Logistics both work the deeper, more musical end of the Hospital stable, and together they have built a drum and bass roller that sounds like the back half of a very good night. The bassline is pure warmth, a round sub content to sit back and let...
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