Awesome overblown drum & bass in 2012

Danny Byrd ft. General Levy - Blaze The Fire (Rah!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQNjjLN0gA8&feature=BFa&list=PL1C1618C3B6026E8B

Fracture ft. Dawn Day Night - Get Busy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Z0J9SGEDk

Dub Phizix ft. Fox & Chimpo - Narrow Eyes:

http://www.youtube.com./watch?v=2Huue0TPZIE&feature=related

Logistics - We Are One (Nu:Logic Remix):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKHxkgOLofE

Rockwell - Childhood Memories (really only d&b by pedigree):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO3kZDOnelg&feature=relmfu

I'm feeling this vibe tonight so please post more suggestions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2RCNU10AQo

Nero - Must Be the Feeling (Brookes Brothers Remix) - super fruity drumstep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbXg3j3mOZ8

Flux Pavillion feat. Example - Daydreamer (Danny Byrd Remix) - wish it was anyone in the world other than Example but whatever, i'm into it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyORw8bee4o

Coyote Kisses - Acid Wolpack - maybe not drum&bass per se but is RIDICULOUSLY overblown

also love love love this - such a rush!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgU7XMUyAqY

obv all of these are heavily brostep-leaning, not sure if you were looking out for that sort of thing but there it is

Not really but it's all good.

I suppose we can talk about how "commercial drum & bass" these days seems to mean same beat (does not even qualify the plural) with massive heartjerking synth melody on top.

Lots of retro-nostalgia in those videos.

i love "blaze the fire (rah!)"

It's great isn't it!

this might be a good place to mention that Crissy Criss seems to be getting into the "overblown" d&b sound lately ("bombastic"? not that d&b ever had a shortage of that) - his #1 this week is Wickaman & Hoodlum "One Scratch"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00z2hvh

it's funny, i've been listening to a lot more d&b these days, it just feels right somehow. i have to admit i really like the Calyx & Teebee track in that clip

I really didn't see this trend coming, like I sort of thought drum and bass would just go on forever sounding exactly the same and appealing to exactly the same audience (17 years old, suburban, probably into video games, totally ignored by media) and then this happened.

Probably no coincidence that after 19 years of barely any jungle or D&B hits at all the UK has had two drum & bass #1s in the space of under a year.

Of all the chart-bound commercial bosh sounds in 2012 this is by far the best.

I mean for as long as I can remember drum and bass Friday nights at Fabric have been comfortably outselling almost all of the more credible house and techno nights on a Saturday so it's hardly like it was some marginalized subculture but sort of easily ignorable at the same time.

tim are you referring to stuff like Princess Nyah/Ill Blu's 'Around the World'? Don't have much to offer you but I do know DJ Pantha makes some good dnb now and then.

http://soundcloud.com/dj-pantha/dj-pantha-bristol-riddim-dam

you guys should get that digital soundboyz fabric mix

it's funny to find this thread, i was just now listening to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRz06_vusmk

^^ obviously not chart-bound

Probably need to distinguish between the majority of the actually big mainstream d&b tunes - which are basically emoto-brostep sped up (which makes sense given so much of brostep sounds like the most lumpen end of d&b slowed down) and the stuff I posted at the beginning of the thread, which is connected but different, more like a more mainstream version of the sound DJ Clever was peddling eight years ago.

I guess a rising tide lifts all ships - all of these (at times slightly contradictory) angles feel bigger and more embracing than they have for ages.

have you heard that fabric mix tim?

Those Fracture and Rockwell tunes are total jams.

Feelin that Nero track too..

All of these have a very clean rush to them, no?

basically emoto-brostep sped up

there's also the supposed-glitch hop/moombahcore/whatever being just slowed down brostep - as a brostep enthusiast i really appreciate the opportunity to enjoy it any tempo ranging from 110 to 180, feel so spoiled :)

and beatport's breaks top 10 is good for a cheap lol or two

Returning to these videos and actually watching them. Retro-nostalgia only for the last one, and given the track, seems obvious. Guess I'm just surprised that there's videos for D'n'B, and that they're not terrible either!

Also checking out that Fracture mix from Metalheadz this morning, about halfway through. Certainly I get the link to Troubled Waters, the multiple tempos and rhythms, rather than 2-step locked grooves, etc. Seems like there's a whole range of tracks taking off from the rhythmic zone of Twitchy Droid Leg, which can only be a good thing.

It's good isn't it! Not actually as good as Troubled Waters or Unsung Heroes (obv - those are up there with the best d&b mixes ever) but still much better than I expected going in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fffHfyie9tw

This is great.

A few interesting moments of cross-fertilization on that mix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEfmvsOdzTs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db2zewOS7Yw

Seems like there's interesting stuff, but the 'overblown' part of this thread title makes things difficult. Keep noticing a divide between complex 'experimental' OSR style d'n'b, and blaring muscular locked groove tracks. That said, there's quite a few new labels around these days, should keeping digging...

I really like that Logistics track upthread, btw.

Trouble Waters 2, wonder if this will ever happen?

Yeah I guess "overblown" was a bit misleading - but stuff like "Get Busy" and "Blaze The Fire" seem like more anthemic takes on complex beats than is usual for that end of things.

"Never Been" too. Dub Phizix seem really interesting, Source Direct meet Mala sort of?

The Logistics remix is a monster.

more fruity brostep bangers please, mind taker!! great selections

Dj clever most overrated dnb thing ever imo

spacemindy - to be honest i'm not much of a drum&bro expert, those were basically a year's worth of me checking it out on rare occasion and finding something to enjoy!

a few other things you might perhaps give a try:

Sub Focus feat. Alice Gold - Out the Blue
SKisM & DC Breaks - Killer (Tantrum Desire Remix)
Brookes Brothers - Tear You Down / Paperchase / Big Blue
Emperor - The Fire