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Metrik - Dawnbreaker (Subsonic Remix)
Read more . . . →Metrik’s original “Dawnbreaker” was already a euphoric liquid roller, and Subsonic drags it somewhere harder without losing any of the light. What gets me is the bass tone in the remix — it’s got a saw-edged growl the original never had, and it turns the whole track from a sunrise moment into something you’d hear at the absolute peak of a festival set. The breakdown keeps Metrik’s soaring pads intact, so you get this lovely tension between the pretty top end and the mean bottom. Then at 2:10 the whole thing detonates. I’ve been a sucker for this kind of...
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En:vy - Love Talk
En:vy's Love Talk is liquid drum and bass done right, smooth on the surface with a bassline that quietly ruins your speakers.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Fred V & Ayah Marar - Daydreaming
Fred V reunites with Ayah Marar for 'Daydreaming,' and this liquid DnB heartbreaker will convert people who swear they hate DnB.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Kanine - Wide Awake
Read more . . . →Kanine keeps quietly making some of the most physical DnB going and nobody’s giving him enough credit for it. “Wide Awake” opens on a vocal snippet that sounds ripped from a late-night phone call, then drops into a roller so clean you could eat off it. The bass isn’t the loudest thing here; it’s the swing, the way the second bar of every phrase drags a fraction and makes your head nod against your will. I put this on to get some writing done and managed exactly nothing because I kept air-drumming the break at 1:40. His stuff always sits...
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Justin Hawkes & scribe - Wayward
Read more . . . →This one made me miss shows I’ve never even been to. Justin Hawkes writes drum and bass like a songwriter first, and Wayward with scribe is all yearning, a vocal that sits somewhere between pop and prayer, riding a break that never gets in its way. The drop doesn’t detonate so much as bloom, which is the whole appeal; at 1:55 it opens up and you feel your chest do the thing rather than your feet. Hawkes has a knack for chords that stay just slightly sad even at full tempo, and scribe’s top line leans into that instead of...
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GLXY - NO ID
Read more . . . →How does a duo make drum and bass this warm without it turning into wallpaper? GLXY keep quietly figuring it out. NO ID rides a rolling break with a bassline that’s more felt than heard, and the whole thing has this dusky, late-set quality that a lot of liquid DnB reaches for and misses by being too clean and too bright. Around 2:25 they strip it to almost nothing, a filtered pad and a ghost of the drums, and the rebuild after is the reason to stay. There’s a jazz-chord thing happening under the second half that I keep noticing...
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D.O.D & Hayley May - Closure (Friction Remix)
Read more . . . →The bassline Friction drops at 1:38 here is so simple it’s almost rude: three notes, rolling, no ornamentation, doing more than most producers manage with a full rack of plugins. Closure started life as a housier D.O.D record with Hayley May floating over the top, and Friction’s remix drags it into drum and bass without losing the ache in her vocal. That’s the trick. DnB remixes of emotional vocal tracks usually flatten the feeling into pure energy, but this one keeps the sadness and just gives it a faster pulse. Hayley’s chorus hitting over that half-time-into-full breakbeat is genuinely lovely,...
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Mitekiss - Forty Times
Read more . . . →This is the kind of liquid that makes me forgive the entire genre for its softer sins. Mitekiss has quietly become one of Hospital’s most reliable names for exactly this — dnb that’s pretty without being wallpaper, emotional without tipping into greeting-card territory. Forty Times moves on a rolling, unhurried break with a vocal chopped just enough that you catch phrases without ever getting the full sentence, which somehow makes it hit harder than a clean topline would. The bassline is warm and round and sits so far back in the mix it’s almost subliminal, doing the emotional work while...
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pyxis & Redemptive - Arctic Void
Read more . . . →Cold is the right word for this. Arctic Void earns its name with a wash of icy pads and a break that sounds like it was recorded in an empty cathedral. This is Liquicity in its element, the label that turned liquid drum and bass into a whole aesthetic, and pyxis and Redemptive fit the house style perfectly. The vocal is distant and reverb-drenched, more texture than message, floating over a rolling break that stays gentle even when the energy lifts. The drop around 1:40 isn’t really a drop at all, more a widening, the whole track opening up like...
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Etherwood - Roam (ft. Lottie Jones)
Etherwood and Lottie Jones's Roam sounds like the montage where the character finally gets their life together. Sincere liquid dnb, zero cynicism.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
