The low end ran the table this week — nine drum and bass tracks, seven dubstep, seven house of one flavour or another. Somewhere in the pile two ghosts from the ’90s wandered back onto the site: a Paul Oakenfold trance anthem from 1999 and a Detroit house record older than half the people who’ll dance to it. Good week to own a subwoofer. Bad week to have downstairs neighbours.
Track of the Week
Etherwood - Roam (ft. Lottie Jones)
This is the liquid drum and bass that soundtracks the montage where the character finally sorts their life out — Lottie Jones’s vocal floating clean over a break that rolls like it’s got somewhere lovely to be. When the full thing kicks in around 1:30 it feels less like a drop and more like the sky clearing. Earnest to the bone and completely unbothered about being cool, which is exactly why it lands. Listen →
The New Drops
Drum & bass (9 posts) — ate the week and didn’t apologise. Etherwood and Mitekiss handled the pretty end, Friction and Voltage brought the teeth, and Halogenix wandered off into a half-empty-warehouse fever dream that’s too weird for the peak and better for it.
Dubstep (7 posts) — loud and unrepentant. Zeds Dead showed up with a title longer than some of the actual tracks and somehow backed it up; Ray Volpe and Kai Wachi just named theirs PAIN and meant it.
House, in all its dialects (7 posts) — tech, deep, bass, straight-up. Eats Everything and Descent built a lock-in groove for sweating in the dark, and DJ Paulette’s rework of Inner City is the one I kept crawling back to all week.
Everything else — five melodic and indie-electronic drifters from MALO, Yere and V. Christie, four trap knockouts, three trance trips including that Oakenfold resurrection, and a little run of dance-pop from TESS, Justė and The Second Voice for when the bass finally gives you a headache.
Also Banged This Week
- Argy x Paul Oakenfold x Planet Perfecto Knights - ResuRection — a 1999 trance anthem dragged into 2026 on a rubbery melodic-techno chassis, and the hairs still stand up when the riff lands at 2:20. Listen →
- Inner City - Pennies From Heaven (DJ Paulette remix) — Detroit history handed carefully to a new generation; the breakdown around 3:00 strips it to a vocal and a kick and gets me every time. Listen →
- Zeds Dead - RETURN TO THE RETURN… — four tracks’ worth of grimy ideas crammed into one runtime, gloriously out of step with everything current. Listen →
- Halogenix - Sawtooth — a serrated synth sawing clean through the low end, more menace wrung from fewer elements than should be legal. Listen →
- Friction - Stay — radio-ready up top with a filthy second drop smuggled past the gatekeepers at 1:45. Listen →
See you next week. Coldplay still sucks.