WELCOME TO THE JUNGLIST MASSIVE, WE'VE GOT FUN N GAMES: 2017 Rolling Drum and Bass/Jungle/Liquid/Neurofunk/170

This was fun last year, let's do it again.

The new Klute album Read Between the Lines is fantastic, it came out last Friday and covers a lot of ground stylistically, as Klute usually does.

The Telomic EP Compelled is a fun listen, a little atmospheric.

I don't think you can listen to dnb in 2017 and avoid hearing "Trunk" by Alibi and MC Coppa. It's everywhere, but I still listen to it on repeat for half an hour once or twice a week.

DRS, Patife, and Vangeliez put out "I Will" early enough to ensure that it gets constant rotation this summer. If the last DJ on the last night of Sun and Bass doesn't close with that tune I'm going to have Questions for them.

New albums by Mr Joseph and Jam Theives that I've yet to check out, plus an EP of VIPs by Digital and a new Phace EP. Good year so far.

Anyone have any recommendations yet?

ASC continues fine run of form. At the very fringes of the genre, though...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ydOfl2HqX5c

http://soundcloud.com/domandroland/sets/dub-from-the-dungeons-ddd01

^oh yes, what a sound and what an era. Dominic Angus is a badman.

yes, having lived through it i have a real soft spot for that era and i really doubt i will hear anything this year that affects me in the same way

that said i'm always down for new stuff from cosmic bridge

https://www.discogs.com/Om-Unit-Presents-Various-Cosmology-Selections/release/9848604

this is interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u5hTmyVsNw

I like that Yally track, dark and spooky. Great minimal breaks too.
The ASC tune is cool but probably not a dancefloor filler.

I'm surprised to actually really like the new Goldie tune "Prism". It came up on spotify without my knowing who it was by and I was surprised. (And it sent me into a Goldie rabbithole for a couple of hours... There's a great e-comp on Spotify that gathers all of his early Ruffige stuff on Reinforced.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ05HX4TIbo

haha i am listening to that spotify comp at this very second

That Yally is a good find. Wee hint of Omio Trio Volume 2 in there!

hey that goldie track is pretty cool

ILM's 2017 Rolling D+B / Jungle Thread Spotify Playlist

oh man, someone link to that Goldie Spotify comp? I gotta hear that, my old skool knowledge is sorely lacking.

https://open.spotify.com/album/4fK8mchaPGdmFNa9iyRF8k

^ got that playing now while I help clean house for a newly adopted rabbit. Old skool stuff is so great.

Just heard a track from a new Calibre album. Does this guy put out three albums every year , or what? I thought Shelflife 4 was his last, but Spotify has two more between, unless there's a different Calibre with Diane Charlemagne on a track.

https://youtu.be/bRgKyg0hmgc
Calibre tune in question

coco bryce brings sick amen revivalism

https://soundcloud.com/cocobrycebeats/coco-bryce-raid-7th-storey-projects-12014

that caliber tune is very, uh, smooth

i mean if you're going to get that smooth why not go all the way?

https://soundcloud.com/the-nothing-special/calibre-strange-are-the-days

by the way not sure where to post this but the a1 of that is an amazingly good broken beat track

That Calibre rework is amazing. I love the 170 underpinning the slow waltz feel.

https://soundcloud.com/damonleeyates/sets/martianman-004-clips

Really enjoying the new Seba tune, A-side is great too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jifkWSPiGvI
and also this from a year ago

A set from a 2009 show commemorating the tenth anniversary of Kemistry's passing, shared today by Storm on the 18th anniversary. Marc Mac, 4Hero, DJ Stretch, and MC MG.

Cop Envy - Balanced

https://soundcloud.com/cry-baby-records/cop-envy-balanced

Second release on Cry Baby Records, I really liked their Dan White release from last year. This would probably sit well next to Yally.

Alix swaps his nuclear hip hop concrete style of late, which has been quite fun, example below...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C9e43Ok-L68

For something in an altogether more traditional rolling liquid funk style. Nobody does this better except maybe Mr Calibre above...

https://open.spotify.com/track/7inzvaKIgrpvkkP8A9jmys

I'm a little surprise I hadn't already heard about a new Perez/Spectrasoul EP, but good looking out article don.

I heard a track in a mix that I liked by Dirtbag, I think the name was Blue Water or something, but it hasn't been released or even signed yet. Posting this here to remind myself to look out for it >.>

reissue alert

https://hardwax.com/label/suburban-base/

Nice, I love that DJ Hype track. Hopefully we'll start hearing some of those tracks getting more play with younger DJs who maybe didn't have a chance to buy jungle 12"s in 1994?

more reissue goodness

http://www.juno.co.uk/products/photek-traenon-remastered/648817-01/

Really can't recommend this Essential Mix highly enough. Tour de force.

https://www.mixcloud.com/essentialmixcollection/20170506-essential-mix-camo-krooked/

Haven't gotten to that Camo & Krooked mix, but I guess there's a new Urbandawn track on it? Def going to check it out today.

RIP Marcus Intalex - https://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=39107

^ I know, what a total bummer. RIP. Seemed to be getting some props for his techno stuff as Trevino lately (Skream/ Boddika)

For MIST - Outerspace and Universe he deserves a lot of respect, but this is just immortal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiQiQ84xLOw

New Patife et al EP out, called The Vibe Is Coming. I haven't heard it yet but I'm guessing I'll love it, like nearly everything from Brazil and like literally everything I've heard Patife on. Summer tunes are rolling out :D

it's on Spotify and the second track on it, "Feelings," has improved my day considerably

seems as good a time as any to note that the accompanying thread spotify playlist is up to date and awaits your ears.

ILM's Rolling Drum & Bass / Jungle Thread 2017 Spotify Playlist

hard to get very excited about a digital reissue but always happy to relisten to this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBQW2YoQetE

https://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=39624

this is a really good track:
https://goreshit.bandcamp.com/track/found-it

Detboi's latest for Metalheadz is worth checking out

yeah it is ... perfect new school science

also on metalheadz, perfect 97 revivalism below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK3IgCFYkIQ

maybe more 95-96, hard to say

stick with it, levels up about 4.5 mins in

metalheadz on the comeback.
i picked up the recent(ish) mikal album a few weeks back, and damn, it hits the spot.
just a shame that the new goldie album sounds like a snorefest from the reviews.

Yup, Metalheadz on point lately

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TVR6F7Ngqr4

And

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W3MXLBfnl74

And on the new V records Brazilian album

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NdHLdASWUPU

And delightfully 1996 vibes straight outta Reykjavik

https://open.spotify.com/track/40MOwpSdVqU3Vz8eCTElqv

Oh and Kid Drama on Headz as well. I do love Kid Drama

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F2HR96y5h5Q

I haven't heard the new Makoto album yet but the tracks I've heard from it were really good. My Spotify access should be back by Wednesday, that's probably the first place I'm going to go.

Schedule for this year's Sun and Bass festival, for anyone interested. Look at the goddamn names, it's nonstop legends. I'm hoping to go next year. Bassdrive will probably be broadcasting bits of it live this week.

Those Metalheadz tracks are amazing, I dunno if they've got someone new signing records but they've got a couple bangers right there. I've heard better stuff from Brazil last year but I'll still check out the V comp.

kid drama is great but what about kid lib?

https://soundcloud.com/kidlib/kid-lib-first-horizon-distant-horizons-12-out-now

That Kid Lib track is great, I had it up on youtube and another track from the EP started right after and that one was great too.

stoked for results of this, always found these genres hard to crack for the Good Stuff

Sleepwalker, the new AwakeFM EP on Omni is great, I recommend it highly if you like atmosphere and melody and shit like that.

https://omnimusic.bandcamp.com/album/sleepwalker-ep

Andy Skopes - inna Dilinja 1997 kinda style

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O6g5YHIgQJ0

Dark and mean from Homemade Weapons

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9HhBIm3y9qM

For those compiling your year-end lists, this playlist includes all the available tracks on this thread, organized roughly chronologically in order of mention:

ILM's 2017 Rolling DnB + Jungle Thread Spotify Playlist

I'm sure the new T.R.A.C. album Life In Motion isn't news to anyone, but hot damn is it good. Probably the only dnb album of the year that crosses over into my all-genre top ten.

should we start the 2018 thread so i can repost this detboi masterpiece

https://www.metalheadz.co.uk/download/methpla026d

And on comes Alix as a late substitute and bangs it into the top corner for DnB track of 2017

https://youtu.be/8-jkC4Yf13o

Legendary full cycle artist has now dropped the "DJ" from his moniker and returns on 31 records. And it's really good

KRUST!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BaWx_AsTwA

Not bad.

Oh no.DJ Tango has passed away. Never to be forgotten fo this

https://youtu.be/1FX_GZfAkhY

And this

https://youtu.be/4L2VmS8EL9o

And finally. With his partner DJ Ratty, probably the finest exponent of the classic late 92 early 93 Jungle Techno sound. RIP

https://youtu.be/LowK4JV5zzU

Sorry forgot this. I am quite sad about this but leaves a very strong (and surprisingly influential catalogue)

https://youtu.be/1tUM6x_znf0

i posted my favorite tango track on another thread earlier today ...

Atmospheric Drum 'n' Bass Youtube thread

^nice choice

http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=620

"junglewave"?????

https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/22274

Looking forward to the dgoHn mix, I always liked his tracks

'drumfunk' has got to be one of the stupidest things ever, but it's a really cool mix.

You just mean the name?

This mix is super nostalgic for me, around '04 - '08 I used to listen to loads of this style, and the first tracks I made on the computer sounded a whole lot like it.

idgi

what's so bad about "drumfunk"

Yeah, just the name.

It never bothered me, although I don't think music at this tempo is "funky" per se. Maybe drumcore, or better yet...break...core?

Yeah, there's just way too many names for jungle already. I was being hyperbolic, though, nothing can be as bad as 'neurofunk'. Still. 'Drumfunk?'

Nice to hear something new school acknowledging the past without descending into Chase and Status level of shiteness

https://youtu.be/aBAcn544A0M

Metalhradz continuing recent strong run

https://youtu.be/pdMjVvq4O94

Metalheadz

Lovely loping groove on this

https://youtu.be/Dh7o9hPOo_w

Not dnb but a dnb producer so putting it here. This is fucking unreal

https://youtu.be/wj3FB0576kQ

Channeling the spirit of early Ed Rush

https://youtu.be/VNtvpVSNZM8

Oh dear too much Cabernet Sauvignon tonight

This is a great record. Peak era Wax Doctor meets Non-Amen Source Direct. Epic, widescreen and edited to fuck

https://open.spotify.com/track/6MwCj6KoJ25FHZnifs947T?si=s3EX3hliQ4GWZ2OzQuURUg

Another week, another sparkling LP, this time from Skeptical on Exit

https://open.spotify.com/album/3EJbB2ggCt1RFlb3EPrrgb?si=jmsyCPyiT66OH0TQ96AFrg

New OneMind album is tremendous. Like if Photek has made an entire album of tunes like “Rings Around Saturn”.

Very sad news about longtime don and Metalheadz alumni, Spirit

https://www.dogsonacid.com/threads/pray-for-duncan-aka-spirit.795576/

This just came out last week and it’s lovely, still totally on point:

https://open.spotify.com/track/6E1cAWhvGMyJ4ILj0lZ5LC?si=5S3kxpfrRa-H5t4QtnJaqg

And Phantom Force will live forever....

https://youtu.be/81Gq3qJ0azM

i've still got to check out that onemind album

the new kid lib is beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_z504DNv9c

Yes, it’s basically Shadowboxing but this is a destroyer

https://youtu.be/uxIUvvbzE0E

nice! that twisting bassline reminds me of 90s tech itch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn97WwaRcI0

also cannot get enough of this HOJO CLAN label and their low-slung, droning halfstep

their newest EP, the WHITE GORILLA CULT EP is an absolute destroyer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhlDkn6oyu8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWN_-qgcwAE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noD9PHSPQFk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M87ETRdaw_U

Digging this, thanks

Generation 3 EP by Commix. One of the most complete dnb EPs I’ve heard in forever. 4 varied tracks, all excellent but this is a belter. Slight vibes of Commix’s own “Emily’s Smile” and the long forgotten “Future Realities Part 2” by Dave Wallace.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N4kqVWkkB1U

commix vs fabric is easily one of my favourite of the series.
something is clearly in the air.
2 major label d-n-b cds from years ago that a few months back were available via amazon market for pocket money have now jumped up massively in price.

That Shikem Hanzo White Gorilla cult upthread was a great shout, thanks! This is the same dude

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6L-fRx4QfjQ

Here’s a fucking banger from ilx’s most unfashionable genre

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7mkF5J7JjMU

was just thinking about reviving this thread, in order to share some just released hardcore shed-ism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lO1ktLcE4w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-h9YB-YWjM

Best new jungle I've heard in forever:
https://sullyuk.bandcamp.com/album/swandive

I really enjoyed these:

https://asc77.bandcamp.com/album/isolated-systems

https://asc77.bandcamp.com/album/an-exact-science

I don't have specialist ears for this kind of music, but the following comp demanded a Top Ten slot this year:

https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/img/Q2puam13Uk1EM1hMcHowK0ZIZW4xQT09/new5026328504520-black-riot-sleeve-copy.jpg

Black Riot
Early Jungle, Rave and Hardcore
Soul Jazz Records
...Featuring classic and seminal tracks from the likes of Levictus and Krome &Time, alongside a host of rare and little-known ragga & junglist hardcore tunes from the likes of Babylon Timewarp’s hypnotic Durban Poison, Rhythm for Reasons’ mad ‘The Smokers Rhythm’, The Freaky rave-y breakbeat sound of ‘Time and Age,’ Trip One’s super dark ‘Snowball’ and loads more!

Expect super heavy basslines, equally heavy twisted Amen drum loops, even heavier ragga vocals! Original jungle style - roots and culture - from the earliest days of drum and bass.

Included with the album is a free limited-edition graphic mini-novel “Black Riot: The Mysterons save Planet Earth from the Xatheroid Angels.” This is the third collaboration between Soul Jazz Records and writer/illustrator Paulo Parisi, the highly respected author of graphic books on Jean Michel Basquiat and John Coltrane.

This new graphic story continues the story of black electronic dance music – this time set around the birth of Jungle and continues onwards from Soul Jazz’s earlier ‘Invasion of the Killer Mysterons’ (Jamaican electronic Dub, co-compiled by Kevin Martin (The Bug)) and Mysterons Invade the Jackin’ Zone (about Chicago Acid & Experimental House).
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/black-riot

I'm enjoying those ASC tracks, but d&b tracks are so long, lol. I checked the clock after listening for over 20 min...still only on track 3. I seriously don't understand why they need to be 7+ min.

Yeah, the album is always a little longer than I expect it to be; otoh I listened the EP (which came out first) a lot, and I always wanted it to be longer.

god help me I enjoy this:

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

That Black Riot comp sounds amazing from the clips

Yeah, whole thing's great on YouTube.

From 2018 but this EP is great:

https://iambop.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-pattern-ep1

this “aphrodite dub” is really cool imo, from Jonny Reebok:

https://jonnyreebok.bandcamp.com/album/aphrodite-dub-ghost-town-riddim

speaking of 2018 I love this coco bryce track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sf7_1cPLLc

Yessss! I'm a little taken aback this thread even exists, I didn't realize there were fans at all here.

I was going to point out the glaring omission of Tim Reaper so far but since we're on Coco Bryce do you know Ma Bae Be Luv (2020)?

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

Getting back to 2018:

Tim Reaper , Dwarde & Gand - Globex Corp Vol. 5 B1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMSOR4VJXe8

Wow, that's sick

xp, the Coco Bryce I mean

Here he is with some 'jungle-tech' (not so different at all from old school hardcore tbh). Some jungle-tech is undoubtedly much worse, but with higher bitrates than the old stuff at least.

Tim Reaper - Sequence 2 [2020]

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

xp also

But yes, sick...in the head. Now it's got me wondering what kind of gear they're using? I'll have to try to find an interview after I root through this one and the club thread you just bumped, and which I was also shocked, yes shocked to discover.

*I do have to note that I would like to lodge an objection to the thread title here.

The Jonny Reebok is real nice too brimstead. At first I was like 'eh' and then I was like 'yeah'!

heck yeah I love Tim reaper!

just discovered this dust-e-1 track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GxRN53k5-E

the Johnny Reebok is cool because it has all this vague 2step AND breaky electro energy going on, but it’s elegant and smooth af, it sounds really fresh to me idk

Right? It's almost a weightless feel, quite sparse.

But the late great was on to Coco Bryce back in 2017, right around the time I was thinking that all new music was sounding very much the same as what was popular ten years before, and I should mostly just listen to lots of old disco and reggae etc.

coco bryce brings sick amen revivalism

https://soundcloud.com/cocobrycebeats/coco-bryce-raid-7th-storey-projects-12014

― the late great, Saturday, April 15, 2017 4:46 PM (four years ago)

So yes I do in fact prefer revival of thirty year old music styles to ten year old music styles. There's still a lot of unexplored potential in jungle tho (compared to house at least).

There was a 2020 rolling thread too, I've fallen out of the dnb habit the past 12 months or so so I never made a 2021 thread.

I was thinking maybe we could do separate threads for the neo-techstep purists vs the rest of us? I don’t really see that there’s so much great material being released that new thread is needed every year tbh.

Anyway idk what this even is. Pretty sure it’s >160 tho.

Joy Orbison - red velve7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNDJPMT7g2A

(Sorry if it seems like I’m locked into a pattern of lazy drive-by posting lately. Busy busy.)

This is the mood today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9uyCaeiqRU

Omni Trio - The Half Cut

Basically an edit of their remix of Music Is The Key by Foul Play. Sadly absent of the little filtered drum fills that almost define that remix.

Idk if the visuals are from BBC Planet Earth 1 or 2 but not totally inappropriate. I also wouldn’t say no to a half hour megamix of the different versions of this song.

Wish I could offer a list of top releases of 2021 but it feels like I’ve been playing catch-up all year. There has been some great jungle on some of the year end lists I’ve seen, for straight d&b the only standout for me has been that one dBridge roller, which I can’t currently remember the name of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3O2u_PjZkY
Paradox - Soviet
One of the best "straight d&b" tunes of the year, if you can call it that? Scorching bassline from 2:12.

Oh and this one. Unlike anything else much - it's in 12/8 until the beat drops, and has more chord changes than typical d'n'b in the 2nd half...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8CB-kwwwOw

Grey Code - Opal

The Paradox is certainly what I’d call straight d&b, I think the style is drumstep? It’s fine, I’m sure it could fill a big room.

If you take issue with the connotations of “straight” we could call it trad drum & bass but that seems more ambiguous. It’s clear to me that jungle and d&b are diverging so it’s helpful to have some terminology to distinguish the two.

For whatever reason the drum & bass ‘scene’ is among the more toxic communities in electronic music. I’m not saying everyone involved is soiled by association but there’s something about this music that seems to attract douchebags.

There’s not a lot I find compelling about it anymore, knowing it’s a genre that has this somewhat regressive fanbase, and it’s not like there’s been a whole lot of innovation there in the past oh fifteen years. (I could mostly say the same the same of techno at this point tbh.)

Opal is a lot more compelling. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a composition in 12/8 haha. Good to see Metalheadz isn’t just phoning it in these days like a lot of the other classic labels.

Yo viborg, yeah I getcha and I'm not really that connected with "straight" d'n'b either - although over in Aus I don't perhaps get the same douchebaggery (but then I'm too old to go clubbing much either).
Definitely also enjoying the junglist stuff more these days, but I like to dip my toe in to see what's happening in (what I think of as) the more mainstream stuff I guess.

> (I could mostly say the same the same of techno at this point tbh.)
For sure.

Another great tune from Sully '5ives', not what I'd call straight d'n'b:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5eBw_HlzMM

I follow ‘straight’ drum & bass pretty closely and can highly recommend having a listen to what Imanu and Buunshin have been up to this year if you want to hear the current cutting edge.

Buunshin afaik is still studying sonology at the Royal Conservertoire in The Hague and has access to some pretty mental sound design kit as a result, and the two of them are young proteges of Noisia.

Probably not your cup of tea if you just want ‘authentic’ breaks chopped in an S1000, a tired pad sample and a sine wave sub though.

Re: the blanket statement of ‘attracting douchebags’ - the MC led nights where there are 3 DJs on the bill and 50 MC’s are far, far worse for this.

Symmetry / Headz / 1985 nights in somewhere like Trinity in Bristol are on the whole a pretty good crowd in comparison.

Lol no one said anything about 'authentic' breaks, and I don't think anyone of note is using an S1000 any more. If you're concerned with the standard shape of basslines in electronic music, why not just listen to Floating Points, maybe some actual jazz, or whatever the current version of IDM is? Although trad IDM leaned pretty heavily on sine waves too iirc.

The fact is that there aren't a lot of producers making jungle now and they are mainly hewing to that classic sound so there isn't a lot of experimentation going on that I've heard. More experimentation in some of the jungle/garage crossover productions but that's also solely melange as experimentation.

MikoMcha that's a solid release from Sully. I like the b-side a little better.

I guess this would qualify as "tired pad samples"?

Tim Reaper - Lights Off, Heads Down (Sully Remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2NVF1ZutiU

Ok one last post: this thread seems acceptable as the rolling jungle etc thread going forward, shall I petition the powers that be to change the title to "2017 AND BEYOND"? Any suggested revisions or alternatives? Is neurofunk a separate genre from drum & bass at all? I thought it was just one of many styles that emerged 1996-2002.

Yep that kind of pad sound was pretty much what I had in mind when I referred to ‘tired pad samples’.

Tim Reaper / Sully / Fracture are awesome and imo bring something new using the classic hardcore continuum collection of samples.

Some of the other ‘new’ jungle I have come across on Bandcamp is quite depressing in its half-assed throwing together of already caned into the ground samples / breaks / tropes. Kind of retromania at its worst and spectacularly lazy.

Agreed, I should have clarified that I meant there aren't a lot of producers making GOOD jungle right now. Haven't heard much from Fracture at ~160 bpm tho? I do like almost everything I've heard from him.

His 'Velocity EP' on 1985 is worth a listen along with virtually everything he puts out on his Astrophonica label.

Been thinking about starting a new rolling hardcore continuum thread. But for now what’s foremost in my mind and relevant is that in the past week I’ve seen two out of my all-time top 20 d&b producers posting dumb reactionary hot takes. Ffs.

I have to assume that one is Photek, but I can't see anything he's said publicly since last year...

i am strongly pro a hardcore continuum thread

No it was Dom (of & Roland fame) straight up stanning for Jordan Peterson, granted rating him in the 20 is being pretty generous. But also dBridge but that was a bit more vague, just seemingly taking a stand for the Canadian clown caravan. Photek too? Ugh.

Dog Latin I hear ya and value your thoughts friend but tbh Blu Mar Ten just posted this

I used to do a monthly podcast but stopped @ ep 30. I carried on privately making a playlist of music to be included if I ever started it again but I don't think I will, so here's that playlist for your enjoyment. Regularly updated, so shuffle & enjoy it.https://t.co/yubu0Myacj

— Blu Mar Ten (@BluMarTen) February 15, 2022

I just want bangers tho. Here are some of mine, kind of in order of early doors through tear-out: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4IKIunrynAHYh1qt0SemKW?si=279cfd568a664070

I don’t even know what a banger is anymore. Thanks for the list tho.

Dom (of & Roland fame) straight up stanning for Jordan Peterson

Yeah if you check his Twatter (don't) you'll see Photek also stanning JP. Probably not the most embarrassing thing on there tbh.
Ugh...

That's a shame about Photek. Never cared that much for Dom and Roland though.

Thanks for that Blu Mar Ten link above.

I'm liking a lot of the retro stuff that's about - Tim Reaper and Co, Rupture Records, even stuff on Omni who are hit and miss but seem to release 4 or 5 EPs every month. Even enjoying some of the Tik-toky pop jungle from Nia Archives and Pink Panthress.

If you want straight face melting bangers, Grid Recordings still putting out some fun stuff which I guess would be classed as jump up but done in a non-obvious anti-anthemic kind of way. Check out Yatuza, Muzo, Nick the Lot for example

Also good recently: Sl8r - Temptation, Need for Mirrors - Dozy, Blocks and Escher - This One (On R&S). Also liking Myth, Fluidity, Fanu and the always reliable Break.

I go to Junodownload new releases every Monday and it's 95% shite but dnb still produces a few gems so I can't let it go as a genre

Cheers to you!

From here this actually looks like a good jumping off point for a new thread…feeling a little sleep deprived, thanks neighbors. But this is what I’ve got — I feel like I’m forgetting something:

Rolling thread of the HARDCORE CONTINUUM from 2022 into the future (jungle, drum and bass, uk garage, dubstep, bass music, funky, halfstep &c)

Any suggested fixes?

Just call it Rolling Ravey Bangers

Or just add "breaks" to it. I'm really into throbby bassy breaks with a bit of a garage flex atm

Beat you to it ROLLING RAVEY BANGERS / HARDCORE 'NUUM

Aha ok. Don’t you think it’s kind of helpful to have a somewhat more descriptive title? Is the goal just to keep all discussion here safe from the prying eyes of any outsiders or maybe even newcomers?

Anyway Don I was gonna say ‘Dozy’ is tremendous! I was under the impression Need for Mirrors was just another stadium d&b act. I should pay more attention to R&S records also…I checked out Omni Music, like you said it’s a low signal to noise ratio there. The same could be said of Juno sadly, I know there is plenty of quality there if you dig for it. Too bad cause they used to have that top notch blog thing going on.

it's 95% shite

What you said. Rupture is great, all the usual suspects there…going back to 2013 tho! I’ve been so deluded for so long ;_;

Last post: if any of you are on Twitter I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter. I’m @danielviborg but mostly just shitposts tbh.

Aha ok. Don’t you think it’s kind of helpful to have a somewhat more descriptive title? Is the goal just to keep all discussion here safe from the prying eyes of any outsiders or maybe even newcomers?

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