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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 . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Danny Byrd, Shapes & Doktor - Bad Like We
Danny Byrd, Shapes and Doktor still write a hook like they've got something to prove. Bad Like We is the sound of a Friday deciding to be good.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Makoto, Gabriella Bongo, PVC & Blocksberg - Better Days
Read more . . . →This one made the whole afternoon feel about ten degrees warmer. “Better Days” gathers Makoto, Gabriella Bongo, PVC and Blocksberg into a piece of soulful liquid dnb that sounds less produced than grown. Makoto has been making music this warm since before half the current scene owned a laptop, and you can hear that lived-in quality in every bar, the ease of someone with nothing left to prove. Gabriella Bongo’s vocal is the heart of it, soulful without a scrap of showing off, riding these breaks like she’s been singing over them her whole life. The drums roll with a...
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IMANU & A Girl Named Sue - All U Need
Read more . . . →How is IMANU this far ahead of everyone and still not a household name? “All U Need” with A Girl Named Sue is him doing the thing almost nobody else in dnb pulls off, which is making a track feel weightless and crushing inside the same eight bars. It opens delicate, her vocal floating over a few processed chords, and you brace for a straightforward liquid tune. Then the low end arrives and it’s this warped, elastic bass that bends in directions your ear can’t predict, closer to a sound-design experiment than a standard reese. A Girl Named Sue is...
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Friction & IRAH - Lead Dem
Friction puts IRAH's voice dead center of dnb, dry and close, giving orders instead of riding along. 'Lead Dem' hasn't left rotation since lunch.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Loboski & Elipsa - Another World
Loboski and Elipsa's melodic dnb has a snare crack I keep rewinding just to hear again. Tighter and more ambitious than either alone.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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IYRE & Breezy Lee - Lament
IYRE and Breezy Lee make 170bpm liquid dnb feel like floating. Breezy Lee's vocal is the anchor and it keeps getting prettier.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Bensley - Sinking Ship. (D&B Mix)
Bensley bolts a full drum and bass engine onto a soft, sad synth line and the transplant actually takes. Canadian dnb stays criminally underrated.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Dimension & Subsonic - Ghost Town
Dimension and Subsonic build a ghostly intro just to blow it up with a bassline the size of a bus. Main-stage dnb at full voltage.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Culture Shock - U & I
Culture Shock makes rolling vocal dnb sound like it costs zero effort. 'U & I' is festival drum and bass with an actual pulse.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
