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S.P.Y - Step & Flow (US + THEM Remix)
Read more . . . →The bass note anchoring this drop is a single sustained growl that sits about a semitone lower than feels comfortable, and that slight wrongness is the whole hook. Step & Flow is an S.P.Y track reworked by US + THEM, and it keeps the Brazilian producer’s deep, rolling sensibility while roughing up the edges. S.P.Y has spent years as one of Hospital Records’ most reliable hands, the guy who can make 174 feel like a slow groove, and the original leans on that patient, soulful roll. This remix adds grit, a darker low end and a more menacing swing, without...
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BOP & Degs - Island On My Own (ft. Gabriella Bongo)
Read more . . . →If you have been clocking BOP’s name on track after track lately, Island On My Own shows you the songwriter rather than just the breakbeat scientist. This one is built around voices, Degs delivering his warm half-sung half-spoken flow and Gabriella Bongo floating a gorgeous hook over the top, and the drum and bass underneath almost serves them instead of the other way round. It is liquid at its most song-shaped, verses and a chorus you could hum in the shower, the breakbeat rolling gently enough that the whole thing could pass for a soul record that happens to run...
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BOP & Logistics - Miles and Miles
Read more . . . →How do you make a track that just rolls for five minutes and never once gets boring? The amen break is the answer, and the one in Miles and Miles is chopped with a looseness that tells you immediately these are two producers who came up on jungle, not on presets. BOP and Logistics both work the deeper, more musical end of the Hospital stable, and together they have built a drum and bass roller that sounds like the back half of a very good night. The bassline is pure warmth, a round sub content to sit back and let...
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Submorphics - Archive Dust
Read more . . . →You already know whether liquid drum and bass is your thing, so let me just tell you this is a very good one. Archive Dust is Submorphics working the warm, musical end of the genre, the stuff that sounds like someone sampled a jazz record off dusty vinyl and then handed it to a breakbeat. The drums roll instead of batter, brushed and rounded off at the edges, and there’s a Rhodes-ish chord progression underneath that could carry the track on its own with the drums muted. What keeps it from sliding into coffee-shop wallpaper is the bassline, which hides...
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Netsky & Hannah Boleyn - Feel Again
Netsky in full radio-liquid mode with Hannah Boleyn on Feel Again. Uplifting chords, big clean top end. I go back and forth on these depending on the hour.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Nu:Logic - Ukiyo (ft. Thavy Ear)
Read more . . . →Nobody in liquid drum and bass makes weightlessness sound this effortless. Nu:Logic have been doing it for years, and Ukiyo is another gorgeous entry in the file. The brothers behind the project build drum and bass that sounds hand-played, every hi-hat sitting a hair off the grid, warm Rhodes-style chords and a bassline that rolls so smoothly you forget how fast the drums under it are actually moving. Thavy Ear’s vocal sits in the mix like one more instrument, airy and unhurried, the words themselves less the point than the texture of the voice. The title is the Japanese idea...
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Boxplot - Constant Spring
Boxplot's Constant Spring bounces more than it weighs, and it makes the case for liquid DnB without any big-name co-sign. Why is this guy a secret?Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Sustance - North Star
Sustance makes 174 BPM feel unhurried on North Star, warm liquid drum and bass built for the drive home, not the rewind.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Pola & Bryson & Harriet Jaxxon - This Time
Harriet Jaxxon sounds like she's crying and dancing at once on This Time, and Pola & Bryson build a whole liquid dnb bloom around her.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Submorphics - Time Moves Slow (ft. Whitt)
Submorphics and Whitt built Time Moves Slow for rainy windows, not the club. Devastating, patient liquid drum and bass.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
