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Tantrum Desire - Lift You Up (ft. Gracie Van Brunt)
Read more . . . →There’s a moment near the two-thirds mark where the drums drop out entirely and Gracie Van Brunt’s vocal hangs alone for a bar before Tantrum Desire slam everything back in, and it’s the best three seconds on the track. “Lift You Up” is festival drum and bass made by people who’ve been engineering it long enough to make it look effortless. The build is enormous, the drop is bright and clean, and Van Brunt’s topline is exactly the kind of thing ten thousand people scream back without ever learning the verse. Tantrum Desire have a real gift for the euphoric...
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Pola & Bryson & DRIIA - Where Did You Go
Read more . . . →I put this on to test some new headphones and forgot I was supposed to be listening critically about forty seconds in. Pola & Bryson make liquid drum and bass that actually earns the “liquid” tag — warm, rolling, the kind of thing that sounds like it was mixed underwater in the nicest possible way. “Where Did You Go” leans on DRIIA’s vocal, which sits somewhere between heartbreak and acceptance, and the pair build the whole track to hold that feeling without ever crushing it under a big drop. That restraint is rare in this scene. So much liquid dnb...
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Hedex, Travy, XTEN & Overlook - Ok Ok
Hedex, Travy, XTEN & Overlook's Ok Ok is feral jump-up where nobody's showing off — that bassline basically talks, no ego in sight.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Delta Heavy - Set You Free
Delta Heavy built Set You Free to detonate a field at sunset. Big vocal, bigger drop, a half-time gut-check, zero apologies.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Fred V - Vortex
Fred V is still this consistent? Vortex proves melodic drum and bass can have actual songwriting under the sound design.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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IYRE x Makoto - SKYLINE FEVER
Makoto and IYRE's Skyline Fever turns a Sunday-morning intro into a 4am liquid dnb rush. Warmest thing we've heard in ages.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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P Money & Whiney - Photo Finish
Read more . . . →Straight-up one of the most fun drum and bass tracks I’ve heard this month. P Money on the mic over Whiney’s production is a pairing that shouldn’t lock in as seamlessly as it does — grime energy riding a rolling DnB engine that never lets up for a second. The bassline has this rubbery snap to it, and every time P Money hits a rapid-fire run the drums seem to tighten up behind him in response. Around 1:50 the beat strips back to just the vocal and a skeletal kick pattern before slamming back in, and that half-bar of empty...
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Metrik - Dawnbreaker (Subsonic Remix)
Read more . . . →Metrik’s original “Dawnbreaker” was already a euphoric liquid roller, and Subsonic drags it somewhere harder without losing any of the light. What gets me is the bass tone in the remix — it’s got a saw-edged growl the original never had, and it turns the whole track from a sunrise moment into something you’d hear at the absolute peak of a festival set. The breakdown keeps Metrik’s soaring pads intact, so you get this lovely tension between the pretty top end and the mean bottom. Then at 2:10 the whole thing detonates. I’ve been a sucker for this kind of...
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[IVY] - Vertigo
Read more . . . →Who is [IVY] and why has nobody put them in front of me sooner? “Vertigo” is neurofunk-adjacent DnB with a bassline that genuinely lurches — the name is earned, because there’s a woozy pitch-bend running through the drop that makes the floor feel like it’s tilting under you. The drum programming is razor-tight, all crisp snares and rolling breaks, but it’s that seasick low-end wobble that hands the track its identity. It lives at the dark, technical end of drum and bass without ever disappearing up its own complexity; you can still nod to it, it still moves a body....
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QZB & SOLAH - Into The Dark
Read more . . . →There’s a specific kind of drum and bass that only makes sense at 2am when the lights have gone properly blue, and Into The Dark is engineered for exactly that hour. QZB build the intro slow, all held breath and a SOLAH vocal that keeps threatening to resolve and won’t, and then the drop arrives as a rolling, mid-heavy thing that’s more menace than aggression. It’s not the surgical neurofunk QZB usually deal in. It’s cleaner, more designed for a big room than a basement. The bassline has a slight detune on it that makes the whole track feel like...
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