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Lexurus - Mesa
Read more . . . →Lexurus has been quietly making some of the prettiest liquid around, and Mesa is him operating at the top of his game. The whole track glides, a warm rolling break paired with chords that feel more like ambient music than anything designed for a dancefloor. What separates Lexurus from the crowd of Liquicity soundalikes is his sense of restraint; where others pile on layers, he leaves space, and that space is where Mesa breathes. There’s a bassline that comes in around the two-minute mark that is so smooth it almost slips past you, doing all the emotional work without ever...
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BCee & Javeon - What You're Missing
BCee and Javeon make liquid dnb for the taxi home, not the 3am peak. What You're Missing is warm, melancholy, and worth rewinding.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Sigma, Soul II Soul, Capo Lee & Zimma - BACK 2 LIFE (ft. Liv Campbell)
Read more . . . →Flipping “Back to Life” is a dangerous game because that Soul II Soul record is sacred to a lot of people, and the wrong remix gets you run out of town. Sigma know this, which is probably why they brought the actual originators along instead of just sampling them and hoping. Liv Campbell takes the vocal and gives it air, then Capo Lee and Zimma drop in on the grime side to remind you this is 2026 and not a heritage act. The drum and bass underneath is the polished, festival-ready Sigma sound that I usually have complicated feelings about,...
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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 . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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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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