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Rudimental, Original Koffee & Winny - Send Shots
Rudimental drop the stadium-soul ballads and remember they can make dnb move. Original Koffee's bounce makes Send Shots the most fun in years.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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REAPER & DON DARKOE - SUFFOCATING (ft. Adalaide Adams)
REAPER & DON DARKOE make dnb sound like a panic attack on SUFFOCATING, and Adalaide Adams' fragile vocal only makes the walls feel closer.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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One Last Drop
Read more . . . →Luude has over a billion streams and your uncle still thinks DnB died in 2003. 1. Luude ft. Inéz - Never Adds Up Inéz’s vocal gets chopped and pitched and rearranged like luggage on a budget airline and somehow it still makes emotional sense. Luude’s whole move is taking drum and bass to stadiums and festival mainstages and making it work without sanding the edges off. The bassline is wobbly in a way that’s clearly designed for a crowd to lose their minds to, and then the vocal comes back in clean for the chorus and it hits different after...
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The Upbeats - Haunted
The Upbeats' Haunted is neurofunk built like a horror sound designer got hold of a break. It wants your attention, not your hands in the air.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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BOP - Rumination
BOP's Rumination is the best thing I heard all week, deep liquid dnb for being awake at 3am with your thoughts running laps.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Anaïs & Olivia Rose - Round Town
Anais and Olivia Rose stack harmonies until Round Town feels twice as wide as it should be. Play it for anyone who thinks dnb all sounds the same.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Danny Byrd, Shapes & Doktor - Bad Like We
Danny Byrd, Shapes and Doktor still write a hook like they've got something to prove. Bad Like We is the sound of a Friday deciding to be good.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Makoto, Gabriella Bongo, PVC & Blocksberg - Better Days
Makoto, Gabriella Bongo, PVC and Blocksberg make soulful liquid dnb that sounds grown, not produced. Warmth this real is rare and unfakeable.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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IMANU & A Girl Named Sue - All U Need
IMANU makes dnb feel weightless and crushing in the same eight bars. 'All U Need' bends bass in directions your ear can't predict.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Friction & IRAH - Lead Dem
Friction puts IRAH's voice dead center of dnb, dry and close, giving orders instead of riding along. 'Lead Dem' hasn't left rotation since lunch.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
