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Etherwood - Roam (ft. Lottie Jones)
Etherwood and Lottie Jones's Roam sounds like the montage where the character finally gets their life together. Sincere liquid dnb, zero cynicism.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Lexurus - Mesa
Read more . . . →Lexurus has been quietly making some of the prettiest liquid around, and Mesa is him operating at the top of his game. The whole track glides, a warm rolling break paired with chords that feel more like ambient music than anything designed for a dancefloor. What separates Lexurus from the crowd of Liquicity soundalikes is his sense of restraint; where others pile on layers, he leaves space, and that space is where Mesa breathes. There’s a bassline that comes in around the two-minute mark that is so smooth it almost slips past you, doing all the emotional work without ever...
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KRITIKAL - WATCIS!
Read more . . . →The first thing you hear is a bassline that sounds like it’s being physically wrung out, and from there WATCIS! basically never lets your ears settle. This is Monstercat in full aggressive-dnb mode, all snapping breaks and a low end designed to test whatever you’re playing it on. KRITIKAL’s sound design here is genuinely nasty in the good way, every hit placed with the precision of someone who spent too long in the studio and enjoyed every minute. The drop at 0:52 does a stuttering, glitched-out thing that shouldn’t be danceable and absolutely is. What keeps it from being pure...
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Friction - Stay
Read more . . . →How is Friction still this consistent this far into a career most producers would have coasted on by now? Stay is another clean, high-gloss roller from a guy who’s been a fixture on Radio 1 and behind Shogun Audio for what feels like forever, and it moves with the confidence of someone who has nothing left to prove. The vocal hook is simple to the point of being almost too clean, but the break underneath has real snap, the kind of crisp engineering that makes you notice your headphones are working. The switch at 1:45 into a heavier second half...
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Culture Shock - Feel Again
Read more . . . →The breakdown on Feel Again lands around 2:20 and it’s the part I keep rewinding, where Culture Shock strips the drums out entirely and lets the vocal hang in open air for a few bars before the second drop caves the floor in. He has been making this exact brand of melodic-but-muscular drum and bass for years, and it would be easy to take his consistency for granted until you hear someone else attempt it and fall flat. The 174 rolls here are clean without being polite, propulsive enough to wreck a Friday night and pretty enough that you could...
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BCee & Javeon - What You're Missing
BCee and Javeon make liquid dnb for the taxi home, not the 3am peak. What You're Missing is warm, melancholy, and worth rewinding.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Hedex - Beat On My Drum (ft. Inéz)
Hedex and Inéz built a DnB anthem with zero interest in being subtle. Beat On My Drum was stuck in our head before the first chorus ended.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Pola & Bryson - Want It ft. IYAMAH (Mefjus Remix)
Mefjus takes Pola & Bryson's soulful Want It and bolts a meaner, more technical engine underneath. The floor does not survive.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Subsonic & Lauren L'aimant - Out Of My Head
Subsonic and Lauren L'aimant nail the trick liquid DnB rarely pulls off: a vocal that wants you to feel and drums that want you to move.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Sub Focus & Wilkinson: The Dancefloor Machine
Sub Focus & Wilkinson make the Coldplay-ification of drum & bass — festival-scale 174 BPM DnB built to make 40,000 people scream. And it rules.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
