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Rova - The Fire
Rova bringing DnB that actually sounds like its title. The Fire is relentless and doesn't let up once it gets going.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Arcando & Charlotte Haining - Release Me (Drum & Bass Edit)
Arcando and Charlotte Haining took Release Me to the DnB edit and it hits harder than the original. This version is the one.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Far East Movement & The Cataracs ft. DEV - Like A G6 (Manila Killa Remix)
Read more . . . →Okay, this one’s a genuine surprise. Manila Killa took Like A G6, the 2010 club anthem that everyone pretended to hate and secretly loved, and rebuilt it as a drum and bass track. On paper that should be a disaster. In practice it absolutely rips. The original’s hook is so embedded in a certain generation’s brain that hearing it over rolling DnB drums creates this weird time-travel feeling, like your high school memories got remastered. Manila Killa is smart about it too. He doesn’t lean entirely on nostalgia, he actually flips the energy into something that works on a current...
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Sudley, Ekko & Sidetrack & What Eva - Cool For Me
Read more . . . →That’s a lot of names on one track, and somehow nobody’s stepping on anybody’s toes. Monstercat keeps a steady pipeline of this glossy, festival-ready liquid DnB, and “Cool For Me” is a clean example of the formula done right. The vocal is sweet without being saccharine, the kind of hook that gets stuck in your head on the walk to work whether you invited it or not. Underneath, the drums roll with that effortless Monstercat polish where every hit lands exactly where your body expects it. I sometimes give the label grief for being a little too clean, a little...
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Document One - Hold On Me
Document One with a DnB cut that doesn't beg for your attention — just earns it. The bassline alone is worth your Tuesday.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Rova - Think I Am
Read more . . . →Rova keeps quietly turning out drum and bass that sounds like it was built for a 6am room when the lights start coming up and nobody wants to leave yet. “Think I Am” rides a vocal hook that’s equal parts longing and defiance, the kind of line you mumble to yourself on the night bus home. The rolling break underneath is clean enough to feel polite and heavy enough to keep your feet honest. What gets me is the restraint. There’s no big festival switch-up, no needless second drop screaming for attention. Rova trusts the groove to do the work,...
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[IVY], Xira - Car Crash
Read more . . . →Naming a track “Car Crash” is a dare, and [IVY] with Xira actually deliver the wreckage. This is the heavier, darker end of drum and bass, where the bassline snarls instead of rolls and every transition feels like it’s daring you to flinch. Xira’s vocal is the genius move, because it’s pretty and haunted right up until the drop turns it into shrapnel. That contrast is the whole trick. You get lured in by something delicate and then the floor disappears. The sound design is filthy in the best way, all metallic growls and reese bass twisting around itself like...
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Bad Company UK - Planet Dust (Latte Remix)
Read more . . . →Bad Company UK are drum and bass royalty, and Planet Dust is one of those tracks that helped define what heavy neurofunk could sound like back when half the people reading this were toddlers. So a Latte remix of it is a big swing, and Latte mostly nails it. The original’s menace is still there in the DNA, but Latte drags it into a modern, surgical kind of heaviness that the current dancefloor actually wants. The reese bass gets this updated grit that would have melted a 2002 sound system into slag. What I respect is that the remix doesn’t...
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Liquid vs Neurofunk: One Is Self-Care, One Is a Threat
Liquid vs neurofunk: same 170 BPM, opposite nervous system. The dnb explainer for anyone who can't tell the hug from the threat.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Born On Road & P Money - Bristol Style
P Money over a Born On Road ragga-jungle cut is a layup. Bristol Style is unbothered, bass-heavy, built for a subwoofer and bad intentions.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.