This week's drum & bass selections
Friday 15 June 2018
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Cyantific
Wild Child
Viper Recordings
Friends say you're acting crazy? Friends always saying you're the loser? We don't care what you do to them, just be good to Cyantific. Because he's cooked up a serious summer jam right here. Taking a classic Beats International vocal and laying it gracefully over some rising, rippling seashore synths, if this doesn't have your dancefloor singing along then you're playing at the wrong raves. Massive.
Impish
Hush
EXCLUSIVE
Occulti Music
From Russia with love, Impish tells us all to be quiet so he can whisper his own sweet nothings into our ears in the form of his debut album Hush. If you've been listening on vinyl or CD then he's been whispering these sugary murmurs for several months. Now fresh to digital, they sound just as tantalising from the opening soulful vocal workout "Can't Feel" to the last sultry calls from Julia Marks on the closer "Solid". Highlights include the Intalex-nodding "Let Me" (with Zero T), the jazz haze of "That's Right" and the raw jungle slammage of "Shadows". A highly accomplished debut. Make some noise.
Serum
Lumberjack
Souped Up
Finally! After what seems like an eternity, Souped Up bossman Serum unleashes one of his most long-awaited dubplates 'Lumberjack'. Often topped with a killer flow from Inja, here it is in all its hooky, ever-mutating glory. It's backed with an equally riffy wriggler "Square Root". Bleepy and weird but a hell of a lot of fun, it's like spending a night camped out in a transistor radio with some high quality rum. Serum's a lumberjack... And we're okay!
Nicky Blackmarket
/ Various
Welcome To The Jungle Vol 7: Jungle + Drum & Bass Soundclash (unmixed tracks)
Jungle Cakes
Cor blimey, Jungle Cakes aren't messing around with their Welcome To The Jungle series are they? Hot on the heels of Ray Keith comes another stone cold OG; Nicky Blackmarket. Digging deep across the classics and sparking up a whole forest of fresh fires, it's a 40 track, 2 mix, 10 FX tool trove of pure jungle magic curated with the wide-armed style you'd expect from an originator. With classic ranging from well known such as "Incredible" and "Pulp Fiction" to cult such as "Keep It Raw" and "Gangsters" and upfront jams flexing from all the right names (Serum, Aries, Serial Killaz, Drumsound & Bassline Smith), Blackmarket has absolutely smashed this out of the mark.
Evil Intention
Wiredo
EXCLUSIVE
Audio Overload
Oh gosh! Evil Intention returns with his second heavyweight slammer of the month and it's one of his grizzliest constructs to date. "Fear" kicks things off with unhealthy levels of oddball croaks built around a well crafted infectious Q&A riff "We're Gonna Die Out Here" is pure laser medicine, healing your sore soul with ever blast and alien gurgle, "Take It Away" is the sound of a gang nicking a job lot of chainsaws from B&Q and letting them all off at the same time while "Wiredo" is as weird as its name kinda suggests; all sandpaper bass and twisted harmonics, it's a brutal way to end a brutal EP. Deliciously evil!
Featurecast
Jungle Strikes Vol 18
EXCLUSIVE
Jungle Strikes
Strike it lucky, strike it gully, strike while the iron is hot; Featurecast returns to the mighty party purveying imprint Jungle Strikes with two tasty treats. "Lose Your Mind" is a family affair with some exceptional vocal slicing and drop into the original sample while "Trigger Finger" will have your floor dusting off their gun digits and firing blanks in every ceiling available with its early 2000s style Bristol wobble Q&A. Strike the blood!
Majistrate
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Logan D
Car Jackin
Low Down Deep Recordings
With statures as high profile and influential as Maji and D, you'd expect the criminal behaviour to be a bit of a no no. But no, these D&B titans are out on the teef every night, keeping things real behind another man's steering wheel. And this is their soundtrack; a bruising Bristol style shredder with an epic elongated harmonic bassline, slamming drums and some on point spoken samples. The result is criminally heavy. Play it like you stole it!
Regina
Another Day/Controlling The Senses
EXCLUSIVE
Natty Dub Recordings
Natty Dub vocal queen Regina returns with two more moments of distinctive vocal D&B soul. Tagging up with K Jah for "Another Day", Regina adds a sultry smoothness to some serious ruffneck beats creating a perfect game of shades. "Controlling The Senses" flips the vibe for a much more alluring soulful space jam with dials ably tweaked by Manchester's finest; Dawn Raid. Take control today.
Cannon & Hyper:dimension
Disregarded
EXCLUSIVE
Pulse audio
Now on their second release, new D&B label Pulse Audio invite new-gen Bristol talents Cannon and Hyper:Dimension to the plate for a broad and bountiful fourpiece. Cannon goes solo for the first two tracks; the sci-fi tech sizzler "Evidence" and the velveteen piano cut "Faded". Hyper:Dimension join the fray for a breathy pneumatic stepper "Disregarded" before closing the show solo with the neck-snapping, block-slapping wriggler "One More Time." Rewind.
David Boomah
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Ted Ganung
Nuff Of Dem
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Deeper Vision Recordings
NYC business: Deeper Vision Ted Ganung teams up with one of the most distinctive and melodic voices in the bass game - David Boomah. Adding a little of his signature island magic and a heavy dose of clavs and mysticism, Ganung's beats are the perfect playground for David's dulcets as we're taking on a conscious trip into the junglist ether. Let's care for each other.
Basstripper
Lifeforms
Dub Shotta
Benny Page's Dub Shotta heads to Belgium for some savage laser blazing hellfire courtesy of Basstripper. As always with Mr B, there's no messing around as brutal cuts such as "Lifeforms" and "Your Correct" rip and shred from the off with toxic textures. "Tortured" takes us down a more classical route with a Clipz style use of harmonics and hookiness while "Exhibit 9" sends us off packing more nightmares than you've had in your entire life so far. Filthy!!!
SB81
Future Point EP
Metalheadz
Oof. SB81 has never mucked us around with his dark designs but this "Future Point" EP? It's not so much another level rather than another century ahead of the game. Drums to rival Blocks & Escher, atmospheres to rival Jubei's, groove that's up there with Dom & Roland; every cut on this fourpiece slams so hard it will ping you into centuries beyond your time. From the shattering rolling percussion of "Prototypes" to the deep sea introspective dancehall disco of "Tribes", SB81 has delivered an exceptional EP right here. Welcome to the future.
T-Kay
Arrow/The Almighty
Nice Up!
Numa Crew's T-Kay makes his debut on the ever-perennial Nice Up imprint with two authentic slabs of jungle drum & bass. "Arrow" is a whirling breezy workout with its wry nod to the Goodlookin era on its pads while "The Almighty" is a modern day gully fest with a big 'ol groaning bass tone that's not dissimilar to the ones sported by the likes of Serum and Benny L. Heavy duty stuff. Nice up your life!
DJ Mixjah
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K Jah
The Righteous & The Wicked
EXCLUSIVE
Masterpeace Recordings
Bristol's Mixjah and Birmingham's K Jah for two sweet and sassy skank-ups; it's a match made in jungle heaven. First the pair go toe-to-toe on a loose drum soul shaker "The Righteous & The Wicked" where breezy pads ease and wheeze behind some very tidy breakcraft. Meanwhile on "Babylon System" K Jah takes Mixjah's original and adds a whole new layer of feels with deftly placed chords and precision step hits. Wicked and bad.
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Various
Drum & Bass Top Spring 2018
Soundfield
Loud Scream
Scary Scream
Bad Karma
J Cash
Mushrooms
Breaking Audio
Thierry D
The Elements Of Thierry D (Part 2)
DivisionBass Digital
Still hot
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Mitekiss
Farmost
Hospital
Document One
LSD
Shogun Audio
Gravit-e
Life Stream
Audio Addict
Raz
Liondub Street Series Vol 26 - Short Cut
LionDub Street Series
Evil Intention
EXCLUSIVE
Afraid Of Us/Seeing Things
Dubstomp 2 Bass
Various
We Cre8 Vol 5
Cre8 Dnb Music
Coda
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Coy
Spatter/Conspiracy
Grid Recordings UK
Ironlung
EXCLUSIVE
Give Me A Beat
Profound Beats
Featured label: Jungle Strikes
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Featurecast
Jungle Strikes Vol 17
Jungle Strikes
Feel like you've heard it all before? Then hear this! Jalapeno jammer Featurecast returns to prize party stable Jungle Strikes for two more naughty version excursions. "Shut You Down" will bring serious D&B sunshine into your life with its instantly recognisable vocal and big old horn section. "Diddy Dum Day" fires off a big seven gunfinger salute with magnificence. W.O.O.O!
Wicka & Mavrik
Jungle Strikes Vol 16
Jungle Strikes
Bass gurus Wickaman and Mavrik return to Jungle Strikes with another clutch of precision executed, party-firing D&B edits. The first two are worked around some of the most iconic hooks to hit the dance in 1990: "This Is Goodbye" builds up around an iconic sax hook with added vocals from a play-full source while "Oceans 909" sends us out deep into the Pacific with a cult clarinet line to use as a paddle. Finally "Time To Move Over" takes us just north west of Bristol with a turbo-charged take on a mid 90s game-changer. All three respectful twists on classics every single person on your dancefloor will know... And indeed want to kick off to.
Featurecast
Jungle Strikes Vol 15
Jungle Strikes
Why so serious? Jungle Strikes continue to pump out quality, unashamed, footloose party jungle for the masses! Funky breaks man Featurecast continues his venture into DnB territory and we are oh so glad he made the trip! Despite holding such titles as "La La La" & "Relax Yourself" the music held within is not as soothing as the titles might suggests. Two tracks that make us feel like we just had a can of Monster and a double espresso in one go! Opening track "La La La" kicks us off with a rhythmical Bossa Nova piano hook giving it a real sunshine sambas feel, infectious feel good drum and bass that is free of inhibition. "Relax Yourself" opens a little more as the name would suggest a soulful hip hop intro (which is so good, quite frankly it could be a track in and of itself) makes way for the iconic "tears you down" vocal hook; made famous most recently by the Brookes Brothers. Then with the rattle and roll of a snare drum you are in, and the track quickly bursts to life! Crisp breaks to get the legs moving while twinkly jazzed out sample hooks to keep heads in the clouds. Festival ready beats that have us itching to head into a muddy field and have a good old fashioned knees up!
Jimi Needles
Jungle Strikes Vol 14
Jungle Strikes
Uptown funking fatness on a donut dunking scale, ever-sharp Jimi lays down another sweet session for Jungle Strikes. "No Roller" flexes a big string sample that's reminiscent of High Society era High Contrast and really opens out to its soul source on the breakdown. Total feel good vibes. "How We Chill" has a more mischievous take on soul as it works a chill bar from 93 over a sprightly neon synth funk groove and occasional amen splashes. To infinity and beyond.
Jimi Needles
Jungle Strikes Vol 12
Jungle Strikes
Jungle Strikes strike again! Jimi Needles is at the wheel and, like his namesake in Back To The Future, he's revving up the sample engine and calling us all massive chickens if we don't join him. With sounds as funky as these we'd be mad not to. "Stay" takes a big dollop of Al Green and Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz and brings them together with dusty soul mischief while "Jamrockin'" takes Tom Brown and Brigadier Jerry and splices their DNA to make D&B. On point... As always with both Jungle Strikes and Jimi Needles.
Coming soon
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Jubei
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Marcus Intalex
Lubbly Jubbly/Fanny's Ya Aunt
Metalheadz
Macca
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Loz Contreras
Lost Origins
Spearhead
Dossa & Locuzzed
Synthesizer/Grains (Club Masters)
Viper Recordings
Hizzleguy
EXCLUSIVE
Hold It Down/Shockwave
Bulletproof
Jedi
feat
Skelta
EXCLUSIVE
Hulk
Dubstomp 2 Bass
DJ Limited
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Need For Mirrors
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Damage Report
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Mutated Forms
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Raz
Head Nodders Vol 1
Grid Recordings UK
Prestige
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Eazy
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Vital
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Jack The Ripper
Tree People
Walking Dead Recordings
mSdoS
Jungle Drops 12
Liquid Drops
Featured DJ charts
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DJ Hybrid
June 2018 Top 10 Chart
DJ Hybrid & Next Chapter
Let It Off
Audio Addict
Konz & Gravit-e
X Wife
Dutty Bass Audio
Sl8r
M14 Dub
Deep In The Jungle
Drumsound & Bassline Smith
The Hustler
Technique Recordings
Salaryman & Veak
On Fire
Killa Dubz
Hex
June 2018 Chart
Fre4knc
Crustacean
Invisible Holland
Option
Violet (original mix)
Detached Audio
GlApph
Megalodonist
Lifestyle
PRTCL
Subterranean
Flexout Audio
Pulseye
Halos
Ronin Ordinance
Featured sample packs
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Freaky Loops
Dead Symphony: Neurofunk (Sample Pack WAV)
Freaky Loops
5Pin Media
Drum & Bass NI Massive (Sample Pack Massive Presets/MIDI/WAV)
5Pin Media
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