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Malaa (Alter Ego) x ÆON:MODE - Gave Birth
Read more . . . →Malaa’s alter ego stepping out of the house shadows and into full DnB territory, because apparently one alias wasn’t weird enough. This actually slaps — the collab with ÆON:MODE gives it a harder edge than you’d expect from either of them. Buy / stream this track → More like this Tyrone - Warriors Above & Beyond and Zoë Johnston - Carry Me Home (Koven Remix) Brookes Brothers & Danny Byrd - Feelin' This Way
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Krakota - Hold On
Read more . . . →Krakota doing what Krakota does — dark rolling DnB with that textured low-end that sounds like it was made in a basement at 3am and you’re glad it was. The drop hits like a slow inevitability. Buy / stream this track → More like this Samath - Bloom Submarine - Grounding Lateral - Do U Wanna
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Koven - bloOdliNEs
Read more . . . →Koven have been one of those acts where I keep hearing about them before fully paying attention, and then I actually sit with a track and go, okay, I get it now. bloOdliNEs is melodic DnB but with genuine tension running through it — the kind that makes you feel like something is about to go wrong even when everything sounds beautiful. The vocals don’t feel decorative here; they carry actual weight. There’s something unsettling about how pretty the build is before the drop hits. Koven write music that sounds like it should be on a soundtrack for something much...
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Sustance - Take Cover
Read more . . . →Two Sustance tracks on Shogun in the same drop. “Take Cover” is more aggressive than “Loving You” — same artist, different mode. The range is impressive. Buy / stream this track → More like this Sustance - Dub Special w/ Mad Sam Sustance - Digital Waveband Sustance - Loving You
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Sustance - Loving You
Read more . . . →Sustance on Shogun Audio. The label has been putting out quality neurofunk for 20 years and “Loving You” fits right in. Misleadingly tender name for something that hits this hard. Buy / stream this track → More like this Sustance - Dub Special w/ Mad Sam Sustance - Digital Waveband Sustance - Take Cover
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Rova - Octane
Read more . . . →Name checks out. “Octane” hits like a shot of something you probably shouldn’t have ordered, then orders again anyway. Rova’s a New Zealand kid who only really started producing around 2019 and is now one of the fastest-moving names in DnB, which makes sense the second this thing kicks in. Full throttle from the jump, zero warmup. There’s that signature “HOO” tag baked into it and bass that physically rearranges your ribcage. This is boiler-room DnB — gritty, mean, built for a sweaty room with the lights off and the bass bins doing structural damage. The build doesn’t tease, it...
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Quoone - Don't Stop
Read more . . . →Viper does this thing where they round up the up-and-comers nobody’s heard yet and dump them on a Future Fire comp, and you end up finding your next favourite producer between two names you’ll forget by Friday. This is Vol.9, and Quoone is the reason to bother. “Don’t Stop” is exactly what it tells you it is. No fake-out intro, no two minutes of pads before anything happens. It walks in, the bass drops, and it just refuses to let up. Quoone’s been kicking around the Viper orbit for a while now — turned up on the comps before, did...
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Mistafil & Beth Clayton - Run
Read more . . . →Another one pulled off Future Fire Vol.9, which is Viper’s roundup of names you’re about to start seeing everywhere. Comps like this are usually a minefield, half the tracklist is filler you skip after eight seconds, but Beth Clayton’s voice yanks “Run” straight out of that pile. She’s got that thing where the vocal sits right on top of the mix and still feels weightless, like it could float off if the drums weren’t holding it down. And Mistafil clearly knows the assignment, because the production gives her room instead of burying her under a wall of bass. That’s the...
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MANIA - On The Gas
Read more . . . →DnB Allstars dropping this from MANIA and the track name is not lying to you. “On The Gas” is full throttle from the first bar and stays pinned there. There’s no slow seduction, no two-minute intro pretending to be a journey. It just kicks the door in and starts swinging. This is dancefloor DnB built for a room with no air conditioning and no patience, the kind of thing that sounds borderline rude on headphones and absolutely correct at volume on a proper rig. DnB Allstars have basically become the channel where you go to find out what’s actually destroying...
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Logistics - Hyperspace
Read more . . . →Logistics doing what Logistics does, which is make a rolling bassline feel like the most natural law in the universe. That bass drops in around 40 seconds and never once lets you off the hook. Matt Gresham has been one of Hospital’s most reliable producers since he signed there back in 2004, and you can hear exactly why: the surface is smooth and melodic, almost polite, and then underneath it there’s this machine that just keeps turning over. “Hyperspace” leans hard into the dancefloor side of his catalogue, all bright synth hooks and a build that earns its payoff instead...
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