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Jump-Up: The Drum & Bass Subgenre Everyone Pretends to Hate
Jump-up is the bass-led DnB subgenre purists pretend to hate and then rinse at the rave. What it is, the labels, the MCs, and why it always wins.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Justin Hawkes - Stomp
Read more . . . →Justin Hawkes has quietly become one of the most reliable names in dancefloor drum and bass, and Stomp is him doing what he does best, which is make something that detonates a room without overcomplicating it. The build is patient, the kind that has a whole crowd’s hands creeping up before the drop even hits, then it pays off with this big stomping low end that earns the title literally. Hawkes always brings a little musicality to his heavier stuff, so even when this thing is bouncing your skull around there’s a hook holding it together. It’s festival DnB engineered...
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Goldie and the Birth of Metalheadz
Goldie co-founded Metalheadz in 1994 and made jungle symphonic. How Timeless, the Blue Note nights, and gold teeth built drum and bass.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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SOLAH - Forever
SOLAH's debut album on Hospital Records is liquid DnB that hugs instead of hits. Start to finish, no skipping. Worth your evening.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Critical Music, Explained: Kasra's Quiet Empire
'Critical music' isn't a genre, it's a drum and bass label run by Kasra for 20+ years. Enei, Ivy Lab, Mefjus — how it built them.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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SOLAH & Break - Forever (Live Rooftop Session)
Read more . . . →Hospital Records putting out a live rooftop session of SOLAH and Break’s “Forever” is the kind of thing that reminds you drum and bass is a living, breathing performance genre, not just a studio product. Hearing this one played live gives it a warmth and looseness that a polished master sometimes sanitizes out. SOLAH’s vocal soars over Break’s signature deep, soulful production, and the rooftop setting adds this golden-hour atmosphere you can practically feel through the speakers. Break has been one of the most respected names in the scene for decades, and his restraint is the whole point, he never...
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Chase & Status: How DnB Crashed the UK Charts
How Chase & Status snuck heavy drum and bass onto UK daytime radio with No More Idols, never softened the bass, and ended up rave elder statesmen.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Hybrid Minds - Avalanche
Read more . . . →Hybrid Minds occupy this specific lane in drum and bass where the rollers are gorgeous and the emotions are doing real work, and “Avalanche” is them operating at full power. The vocal sits right in that bittersweet zone they’ve made their whole identity, longing without tipping into cheese. Then the drop hits and the bassline rolls out smooth as anything, propulsive but never aggressive, the kind of groove you could ride for ten minutes and not get bored. I’ve seen people dismiss liquid as background music for dinner parties, and those people are wrong and probably also bad at parties....
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Andy C: The Case for the Greatest DnB DJ Alive
Best drum and bass DJ alive? Andy C. Not close. The double-drop king who founded RAM, filled Wembley solo, and still out-DJs everyone he signed.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Hospital Records, Explained (And What It Gets Right and Wrong)
Hospital Records made drum and bass beautiful — then forgot how to make it scary. The defense and the indictment of DnB's biggest liquid label.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
