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The 25 Best Drum & Bass Tracks of All Time, Ranked
The 25 best drum & bass tracks of all time, ranked. From Goldie to Photek to a #1 pick that built the whole genre. Yes, your favorite is too low.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Every Subgenre of Drum & Bass, Explained (With a Track for Each)
DnB isn't a genre, it's a federation. Jungle to halftime, neurofunk to liquid — 9 drum & bass subgenres explained with one track each.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Freaks & Geeks x DUX - Cut Em Down
Read more . . . →Monstercat dropping a Freaks & Geeks and DUX collab is the kind of news that makes me check my phone twice. “Cut Em Down” is a brutal, no-nonsense slice of drum and bass that wastes absolutely no time getting to the point. The intro is barely there before the whole thing caves in on itself in the best way, a drop so heavy it feels almost rude. There’s a darkness to the bass design that gives it real teeth, the sound of a track made by people who like their DnB mean. What I appreciate is the economy of it,...
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Frenchcore: the genre that decided hardstyle naps too much
Read more . . . →A few weeks out from Defqon.1, and if the mainstage hardstyle isn’t doing it for you, frenchcore is both the answer and the warning. Faster, rollier, 200 BPM and climbing, built on a kick that gallops where hardstyle stomps. Defqon hands it real estate every year because the people who love it do not love it quietly. Three to start with. 1. Dr. Peacock & D’ort - Frenchcore Lullaby Dr. Peacock basically built the modern frenchcore audience, and “Frenchcore Lullaby” is him being funny about it. Nothing here is putting anyone to sleep. 2. Billx - Jump Now Billx came...
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Uber Spent Its AI Budget on Robots, Then Fired the People
Read more . . . →Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI coding budget in four months. Engineers ran the tab up on Cursor and the rest until the CTO admitted he was back to the drawing board, because the money he thought would last a year was already gone by April. So the company capped each engineer at $1,500 a month for robot coders — and then, days later, cut 23% of its HR department. Recruiters, facilities, the people who answer your benefits questions when something goes wrong. A spokesperson swears the layoffs had nothing to do with AI. Of course they don’t. Burn...
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WHOiSEE - Ego Check
Read more . . . →Monstercat keeps quietly putting out dubstep heavier than their flagship playlists would lead you to believe, and WHOiSEE just made the case in about four minutes. “Ego Check” is a fitting name, because the drop will in fact check your ego right out of the room and into the hallway. This is the gnarly, metallic, felt-in-your-sternum kind of dubstep I assumed had gone out of fashion. Apparently not, and thank god. The sound design is filthy in the best way, all bent metal and growling sub, with just enough melody up top to keep it from collapsing into pure noise....
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Eptic - OCTANE
Read more . . . →Eptic makes dubstep that sounds engineered specifically to break cheap earbuds, and “OCTANE” is no exception. The Belgian has spent a decade perfecting this exact brand of cartoonishly heavy, gleefully obnoxious bass music, and he keeps finding new ways to make a drop feel violent. This one revs up like the title promises, all combustion-engine snarl and rising pressure before it detonates into a section that genuinely made me laugh out loud the first time. That’s the thing people miss about good dubstep, the best of it is funny, almost slapstick in how absurdly hard it goes. The sound design...
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Viridity - Up To Fate
Read more . . . →Shogun Audio has been a quiet powerhouse in DnB for years, the label that puts out the stuff serious heads geek out over while the mainstream looks elsewhere. Viridity’s “Up To Fate” is squarely in that lineage: technical, deep, and built with obvious care rather than chasing a trend. This sits in the darker, more cerebral end of the genre, where the focus is on detailed drum programming and a low end that hums with quiet menace instead of screaming for attention. It’s headphone music in the best sense, full of small details that only reveal themselves on the third...
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Eelke Kleijn - Feel It, See It
Read more . . . →Eelke Kleijn operates in this beautiful space between melodic house and progressive that few people do as well, and “Feel It, See It” is a masterclass in patient, emotional dance music. The Dutch producer builds tracks like an architect, every element placed with intent, the tension accumulating slowly until the release feels genuinely earned. There’s a cinematic depth to his work that goes way beyond standard club fare, the kind of music that scores a moment rather than just filling a dancefloor. The melody here is gorgeous and slightly melancholy, the sort of thing that hits different at 3am with...
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Unsenses - Far From Home
Read more . . . →We don’t post nearly enough hardstyle around here and that’s a crime, so let’s fix it with Unsenses and “Far From Home.” Dirty Workz knows exactly what this genre is supposed to do to your nervous system, and this track delivers the full euphoric-hardstyle package without apology. The melodic build is huge and unashamedly emotional, the kind of thing that would have a festival crowd screaming the lyrics back with tears in their eyes. Then the kick drops and the whole thing turns into a beautiful controlled stampede. Hardstyle gets unfairly mocked by people who haven’t actually felt one of...
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