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Shogun Audio, Explained: The Label, The Sound, The Essential Records
Shogun Audio explained: the Brighton drum and bass label behind Alix Perez, Icicle and Rockwell, and why its dancefloor DnB still sounds like itself 20 years on.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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RAM Records, Explained: How DnB Got to the Main Stage
RAM Records, explained: how Andy C's UK drum and bass label dragged DnB onto the main stage — Sub Focus, Wilkinson, and the big-room vs underground fight.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Pendulum: The Band That Dragged DnB Onto the Radio
Pendulum smuggled drum and bass past the bouncer. Hold Your Colour, the sellout fight, and how Knife Party became the most honest version of the band.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Noisia: The Most Influential Electronic Act Most People Never Heard
Noisia: three guys from Groningen who quietly built half of modern bass music's sound design. The most influential electronic act you've never heard.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Netsky: From Liquid Prodigy to Pop and Back
Netsky went from Hospital liquid drum and bass prodigy to tropical-house pop on 3, then came home. The full arc, and what to actually listen to.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Metalheadz, Explained: The Label That Made DnB Serious
Goldie's Metalheadz made drum and bass serious without sanding off an edge. The Blue Note, Photek's snares, and 5 releases that win the argument.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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How Jungle Became Drum & Bass (And Why It Never Really Died)
Jungle vs drum & bass: same family tree, two years and an attitude apart. The Amen break, Goldie, Roni Size, and why Tim Reaper proves it never died.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Tantrum Desire - Step
Read more . . . →Tantrum Desire have been making this exact flavor of muscular, tech-leaning drum and bass for over a decade and they almost never miss, which is why “Step” went straight into my rotation without a second thought. The title is a small joke once it kicks, because the whole track is built on a stepping, mechanical groove that feels like a machine learning to walk and getting cocky about it. There’s no big vocal hook, no obvious festival moment, just relentless engineering and a bassline that keeps mutating every eight bars so you can’t quite settle into it. That restlessness is...
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Sigma, Soul II Soul, Capo Lee & Zimma - BACK 2 LIFE (ft. Liv Campbell)
Read more . . . →Flipping “Back to Life” is a dangerous game because that Soul II Soul record is sacred to a lot of people, and the wrong remix gets you run out of town. Sigma know this, which is probably why they brought the actual originators along instead of just sampling them and hoping. Liv Campbell takes the vocal and gives it air, then Capo Lee and Zimma drop in on the grime side to remind you this is 2026 and not a heritage act. The drum and bass underneath is the polished, festival-ready Sigma sound that I usually have complicated feelings about,...
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Hoax, So What & Dynamite MC - Thread The Needle
Hoax, So What and Dynamite MC bringing old-school jungle energy into the present. Thread The Needle is DnB with actual roots.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
