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[IVY] - Vertigo
Read more . . . →Who is [IVY] and why has nobody put them in front of me sooner? “Vertigo” is neurofunk-adjacent DnB with a bassline that genuinely lurches — the name is earned, because there’s a woozy pitch-bend running through the drop that makes the floor feel like it’s tilting under you. The drum programming is razor-tight, all crisp snares and rolling breaks, but it’s that seasick low-end wobble that hands the track its identity. It lives at the dark, technical end of drum and bass without ever disappearing up its own complexity; you can still nod to it, it still moves a body....
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QZB & SOLAH - Into The Dark
Read more . . . →There’s a specific kind of drum and bass that only makes sense at 2am when the lights have gone properly blue, and Into The Dark is engineered for exactly that hour. QZB build the intro slow, all held breath and a SOLAH vocal that keeps threatening to resolve and won’t, and then the drop arrives as a rolling, mid-heavy thing that’s more menace than aggression. It’s not the surgical neurofunk QZB usually deal in. It’s cleaner, more designed for a big room than a basement. The bassline has a slight detune on it that makes the whole track feel like...
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Noisia: The Most Influential Electronic Act Most People Never Heard
Noisia: three guys from Groningen who quietly built half of modern bass music's sound design. The most influential electronic act you've never heard.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Tantrum Desire - Step
Read more . . . →Tantrum Desire have been making this exact flavor of muscular, tech-leaning drum and bass for over a decade and they almost never miss, which is why “Step” went straight into my rotation without a second thought. The title is a small joke once it kicks, because the whole track is built on a stepping, mechanical groove that feels like a machine learning to walk and getting cocky about it. There’s no big vocal hook, no obvious festival moment, just relentless engineering and a bassline that keeps mutating every eight bars so you can’t quite settle into it. That restlessness is...
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[IVY], Xira - Car Crash
Read more . . . →Naming a track “Car Crash” is a dare, and [IVY] with Xira actually deliver the wreckage. This is the heavier, darker end of drum and bass, where the bassline snarls instead of rolls and every transition feels like it’s daring you to flinch. Xira’s vocal is the genius move, because it’s pretty and haunted right up until the drop turns it into shrapnel. That contrast is the whole trick. You get lured in by something delicate and then the floor disappears. The sound design is filthy in the best way, all metallic growls and reese bass twisting around itself like...
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Bad Company UK - Planet Dust (Latte Remix)
Read more . . . →Bad Company UK are drum and bass royalty, and Planet Dust is one of those tracks that helped define what heavy neurofunk could sound like back when half the people reading this were toddlers. So a Latte remix of it is a big swing, and Latte mostly nails it. The original’s menace is still there in the DNA, but Latte drags it into a modern, surgical kind of heaviness that the current dancefloor actually wants. The reese bass gets this updated grit that would have melted a 2002 sound system into slag. What I respect is that the remix doesn’t...
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Liquid vs Neurofunk: One Is Self-Care, One Is a Threat
Liquid vs neurofunk: same 170 BPM, opposite nervous system. The dnb explainer for anyone who can't tell the hug from the threat.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument.
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