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Tian - Smooth
Read more . . . →Smooth is an earned title. Tian drops something here that lives up to its name without becoming boring — which is harder to do than it sounds in DnB where “smooth” often means “neurofunk with fewer sharp edges and twice the blandness.” This isn’t that. The track has a warmth running through it that feels intentional at every point. Shogun Audio has been putting out releases that sit at the more refined end of the spectrum for years, and Tian fits right in that space. The bass work in the low end here is particularly good — it rolls without...
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Alcemist, DRIIA - Search Deep
Read more . . . →Shogun Audio putting out Alcemist and DRIIA’s “Search Deep” is a good match — the label has always had taste and this track has that Shogun quality of being polished without being sterile. The DnB here is on the more introspective end of the spectrum, which given the label makes complete sense. There’s real space in the production — elements come in and out with intention, which is harder to pull off in DnB than most people realize because the genre naturally wants to fill everything. DRIIA’s contribution gives it an atmospheric quality that stops “Search Deep” from just being...
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Pete & Bas - Oldschool Gangsta
Read more . . . →Pete & Bas are two guys in their seventies making drum and bass and absolutely cooking the genre’s younger practitioners in the process. Oldschool Gangsta is exactly what the title says — there’s a swagger here that comes from not caring what anyone thinks, and it absolutely works in a DnB context. DnB Allstars championing these two is one of the better things to happen to the scene in years. The MCs bring the old school UK grime energy that DnB has always had a relationship with, and hearing it pushed this far to the foreground feels like someone finally...
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Mutual - Where I Wanna Be
Read more . . . →Liquid DnB that actually has something to say. The vocal sits right in that pocket where it doesn’t oversell the emotion — just states it and lets the track breathe around it. Classic UKF find. Buy / stream this track → More like this Keeno x Sam Welch x Noppo - The Simple Life Junk Mail x Bugwell - Stronger Technimatic - Day That I Once Knew
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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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