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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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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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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 . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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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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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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Dawn Wall - You Believe
Read more . . . →Dawn Wall keep flying slightly under the radar and I don’t fully understand why, because tracks like “You Believe” are exactly what people claim they want from modern drum and bass. It’s got that uplifting, slightly euphoric quality the genre does better than almost any other, built around a vocal hook that lodges itself in your skull within one listen. The drums are crisp and snappy, the bass is rolling and full, and the whole thing just moves with this effortless forward pull. What gets me is how clean the arrangement is, nothing wasted, every drop earning its place. There’s...
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L.A.O.S x SOL:US - No Less Than Never
Read more . . . →Two artists with punctuation in their names teaming up on Liquicity sounds like a recipe for trying too hard, and then “No Less Than Never” turns out to be one of the most assured liquid tracks I’ve heard all month. L.A.O.S and SOL:US lock into a groove that’s slick without being slippery, the bassline rounded and deep enough to feel in your chest on a decent system. The title is a little nonsensical when you sit with it, but the music more than covers for the wordplay. What stands out is the production polish. Every element has room to breathe,...
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Edlan & Benito Diablo - Healing ft. Ella Hammill
Read more . . . →Liquicity has been the gold standard for emotional DnB for over a decade, and “Healing” is a textbook example of why. Edlan and Benito Diablo build a warm, rolling liquid track and then hand it to Ella Hammill, whose voice does most of the heavy lifting and earns the title honestly. The song actually sounds like its name, which matters more than it should. The drums roll instead of stomp, the bassline glows rather than crushes, and the whole thing wraps around you like the first warm day after a long winter. I know “liquid DnB on Liquicity” is the...
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Amplify & Emily Makis - Get It On
Read more . . . →Liquid-leaning DnB with an actual vocalist on top, and Emily Makis is the reason this one sticks to your ribs. Her voice does that thing where it sounds effortless while clearly being very hard to pull off, sitting right above Amplify’s rolling breaks without ever fighting them. The drums are crisp in a way that makes cheap earbuds embarrassing, so find decent ones before you press play. “Get It On” isn’t trying to reinvent the genre. It’s trying to be the track you put on at 1am when the party has thinned out to the people who actually care about...
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Sub Focus - Elevate (SOTA remix)
Read more . . . →Sub Focus has been untouchable for a while, and this SOTA remix of “Elevate” confirms the legacy is still very much intact. The original was a solid track but SOTA found something in its bones, stripped it back, and rebuilt it with about twice the urgency. The way the bassline sneaks in at the top — almost patient — before everything kicks off is the work of a producer who actually knows what they’re doing. This is the kind of remix that doesn’t just recycle source material, it genuinely improves on it. The drop around the two-minute mark is the...
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