2016 rolling Drum & Bass / Neurofunk / Liquid / Drumstep / Etc.

has anybody heard the dub phizix fabriclive 84 and is it good? that was the last dnb related thing i thought about buying

Yeah, guess I like hyperactivity, clutter if you want to call it that, and don't really care so much if something is corny - find some of the alternatives posted a little too po-faced and worthy for me on the whole, though agreed that paradox track is very good (and not really corny at all).

The 90s revival stuff can be great (love that green bay wax thing too) but it seems to be a different scene, no harm in posting it of course.

Don't know where to start with the fake jungle thread, sorry!

That Ruffhouse one is good.

has anybody heard the dub phizix fabriclive 84 and is it good? that was the last dnb related thing i thought about buying

― the late great, Wednesday, January 27, 2016 7:01 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

listened to a chunk of this the other day cos I had to write something cursory about him and didn't mind it, found it rhythmically interesting or at least non-obvious for modern d'n'b

the Ruffhouse one is good fake Photek, and the Green Bay Wax stuff is cool for a revival sound.

i like the ones the late great posted too, especially the Addison Groove one, but not sure how i feel about the d&b + half-time feel thing. i get it but it's sort of unsatisfying on both levels. these days, it tends to be other kinds of syncopated or uptempo club music that actually scratch the itch that d&b/jungle used to.

New Om Unit EP out soon, kind of "deep" dnb: http://cosmicbridge.bandcamp.com/album/torchlight-vol-2

Right on for doing this thread Camaraderie! ILM could definitely use more d&b. There was a time about ten years ago when I posted somewhat more regularly here and it felt like I was the only read junglist at the time, but I'm pretty sure Tuomas (and late great?) were around back then, didn't really realize they had junglist leanings as well.

These days I'm frankly not so impressed with the current crop of drum and bass. I was most active with it from 1997-2003 or so but the majority of drum and bass by 2003 was very stale and insular. There was a bit of a renaissance maybe around 2006-2007, and again I found the half-time sound of a couple years back very interesting but since then it just hasn't been living up to the potential.

There was a feature I think in Fact about a month back where one of their writers got the jungle bug up their ass and penned one of those sprawling "See? It's really not dead yet!" pieces with their selections of most forward-looking drum and bass tracks from 2015. I wasn't too impressed, even that Rockwell offering seems tired compared to his masterpieces from previous years.

This was the main selection that really stuck with me (definitely one for the halftime crew):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlPFKZaxoc8

Mikal - If We Become

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUEOVc7WEXE

That's more like it.

Here's a couple of things from 2016 I'm enjoying:

Etch - Technicolor Daydream
Spotify ~ Youtube

The Hospitality 2016 compilation on the Hospital label, which includes a couple of tracks mentioned upthread
Spotify
I'm partial to Ulterior Motive - Oddness ~ here it is in the middle of another mix, which, listening to it now, I think I prefer to Hospitality Youtube

What are the odds that I've embedded this many links w/o screwing up the code?

that Etch is nice. slo-mo breaks!

Yeah, like that Etch track too, though at 8 minutes it's a bit too long.

I'm making a playlist on youtube of everything suggested from 2016, will try to update it weekly - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1fmqf9vwPIkskLHY0QdE4MHWTmijn7-3 - right now only four tracks on there, but will add the Fracture & Deft and Uterior Motive if and when they appear on youtube.

ILM's Rolling Drum & Bass Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

Thanks for the Spotify playlist Forks!

Thanks for the Youtube playlist Cameraderie! I agree, that Etch track goes on a bit longer than it needs to... Also, in case you haven't spotted it yet, here's Ulterior Motive - Oddness on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaZgLRO7Gik

Klax - Ritalin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u5kk9npZCk

Yeah, the chopped-up vocals are nice in that one!

I've heard this a couple times in full and liked it, although it's maybe a little cheesy. I'm a cheesy guy. Soon to be released on Formation Records, so this just a 2 minute sample with watermarks all over it.

https://soundcloud.com/formationrecords/sikka-adam-b-high-roll-dj-ss-ft-wilhelm-burst-into-love-the-sikkist-ep-formation-records

another one for the cheesy but effective pile

https://soundcloud.com/exitrecords/sets/fracture-hype-tracks-ep-clips

Re: Sicka - I'm put off by almost everything here, then the drop kicks in and it's all twisted in a sickly way which I can't resist - don't know how long patience would last though.

Re: Fracture, thought we had that already, dont think that's cheesy, is it? Maybe the vocal sample. I like those low, intricate basslines he uses, reminds me of the best Jungle-era stuff.

Anyway, this is LSB - If You're Here (Luke's Tangerine Dreaming VIP)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnq43zTHQ6o

Posting this one not just because I love it, but also because it shows quite well the trend towards trance-style euphoria, rising chord sequences, heavenly vocal samples, etc., but with this melancholy undercurrent. Listening to mixes and radio shows in the last few years the shoutouts often seem to be along the lines of "thanks for this music, it helps alleviate my depression" and more and more of this music seems to have this in mind.

Thanks for starting this thread, CaAL.

A friend of mine sent this over to me a couple weeks ago, great read: http://www.factmag.com/2015/12/19/drum-bass-2015/

that LSB track is pretty but it also sounds like a cloud rap instrumental with an arbitrary, boring, static double-time beat. i would probably like it better half-time (or with breaks!).

The beat is my favourite part - just the sheer incongruity of it with that going on behind it, breaks would clutter it too much I feel.

So anyway, Roni Size has re-emerged with his first material in ages and afraid it's a bit of a letdown IMO, just sounds like what he was doing in the nineties, but a bit less inspired.

https://soundcloud.com/ronisize/roni-size-krust-formulate-original-mix

RS ranks as one of my all-time live letdowns, though, so I may be still bearing him a grudge 14 years later

In defense of Size and Krust there, that blurb does imply that they're reworking tracks that are at least six years old. I guess I'd be interested to see where they go after this EP comes out. I thought that track wasn't half bad, either, but then I never burned myself out on Roni Size.

Six years old isn't that long ago though. I dunno, guess I just got bored of his sound and was hoping he had something new to offer.

There has been a bit of a fuss recently around the sub-genre of Neurofunk, with Friction saying he found most of the current crop pretty uninspired - here are some screenshots

http://i.imgur.com/sbTuytG.png
http://i.imgur.com/omehdPa.png
http://i.imgur.com/3GkNuCm.png
http://i.imgur.com/umfvXAi.png
http://i.imgur.com/0P95LWS.png
http://i.imgur.com/JG3WtEM.png
http://i.imgur.com/j7UxONs.png
http://i.imgur.com/EnHoVYw.png

Playlist somewhat updated.

ILM's Rolling Drum & Bass Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

all quiet on the western front here, but i did add the new RS/Krust track. Discussion petered out, eh?

I moved countries and no time to post stuff, but will catch up.

Here is the first two minutes of Eden by Lynch Kinsley, shame it fades out there, but the rest of it will probably be on YouTube or Spotify soon - https://m.soundcloud.com/chrisinperspective/lynch-kingsley-eden

neurofunk? nurofen morelike!

New Total Science EP 'Notes of Blue' is exactly what you would expect from the title. Pretty good though they seem to forget the melody when they bring the rhythmic danger and vice versa. My favourite track is probably this one:

https://soundcloud.com/data-transmission/total-science-man-down

Enjoying the new SpectraSoul EP as well:

https://www.xlr8r.com/reviews/2016/03/spectrasoul-only-you-ep/

Any love for Stray? This was good from last year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL7L2yi5xMM

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nau6bj6vLB0

Om Unit completely rules as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUSBHidw1JE

https://youtu.be/uee0uRuqhek
Last thing I bought was Kabuki and Serum, "Heist Flick." The whole thing is about twice as long but I didn't want to link to Beatport or the V Recordings website, seemed kinda tacky I guess?

The b-side (if you can call it that on a digital release) is also pretty good. "Clash," by just Kabuki.

yeah om unit is my favorite

check out the a-side on this bad boy

http://www.samuraimusicgroup.com/products/nucleus-paradox-videoman-scenario-12-t-shirt-bundle

i'm generally not too impressed with growling angry dinosaur bass noises but this "videoman" track has some great ones

some cool paranoid half step vibes on this one

https://soundcloud.com/nordlabel/survey-spule-clip

Playlist updated for April.

ILM's Rolling Drum & Bass Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

The past week I've been hearing a lot of new stuff from Brazil that's been really good. Just heard this track a few minutes ago, by Urbandawn and Bungle: https://youtu.be/oz8cQhfX5SU

Plus I heard a really great bootleg remix of the Thievery Corporation's "Meu Destino" that sounded awesome. Mixing classic Brazilian tracks with dnb was a great idea and I'm glad somebody has had it.

Royalston - Jungle Gone Down (Kimyan Law remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1WtU_EM-FI

This one is an odd mix of the kind of techstep / cutup end of dnb and st vincent / the knife style indie electro, not entirely successful, but bits of it are pretty astonishing

Rawtekk - Harbour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLTVP4podRQ

Another one on Medschool, this one is, um, fairly full-on

The past week I've been hearing a lot of new stuff from Brazil that's been really good. Just heard this track a few minutes ago, by Urbandawn and Bungle: https://youtu.be/oz8cQhfX5SU

Plus I heard a really great bootleg remix of the Thievery Corporation's "Meu Destino" that sounded awesome. Mixing classic Brazilian tracks with dnb was a great idea and I'm glad somebody has had it.

― Tom Violence, Sunday, 1 May 2016 02:01 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, lots of promising stuff coming out of Brazil, especially Urban Dawn - there's a lot of buzz about his new LP, should post 'Messiah Complex' on here as it seems to be the tune of the moment

So here's Urbandawn's 'Messiah Complex' - it sounds like a bit like a liquid remix of 'Doomsnight' at first, but it does go some interesting places, sort of metallic and crunchy, and sounds like it's constantly falling over itself. I'm not 100% sold on it, there's a bit too much going on for me, but it does sound sort of fresh (though also quite retro) and I'm picking up new things every time I listen to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDS1Hr43ev0

I'm listening to the new Syncopix album, "Benevolence," right now and I am digging it so far. "Who You Are" is an early standout, but it's not on YouTube or Soundcloud. It samples Liam Neeson in Taken, which is kind of fun.

https://soundcloud.com/monitaskeleton/threshold-dont-ask-me-why-audio-clip

love this one, even manages to make a marley sample that couldn't be more cliched sound haunting.

https://soundcloud.com/monitaskeleton/threshold-dont-ask-me-why-audio-clip

love this one, even manages to make a marley sample that couldn't be more cliched sound haunting.

Yeah, would like to hear a full version of that. Seems like a lot of jungle style amen loops this year, but with surprising sounds layered on top.

Placing this here, tho it doesn't really sound like most of what this thread is about.

Machine Girl - Gemini (2015)
https://machinegirl.bandcamp.com/album/gemini

Neon-glo hardcore breaks, reminiscent of Lone's most hyperactive stuff, or a kind of internet-age Squarepusher. Huge breath of fresh air for me this morning

Here we go. The ultimate dnb super-collab has dropped. The combined arsenal of Alix Perez, Chimpo, Fixate, Fracture, Om Unit, Sam Binga and Stray, guided by daddy D-Bridge - Richie Brains "Who is Richie Brains". Every track a winner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB2OXGsRdx8

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

not into any of this stuff you all are posting ... production is too clean, everything sounds super loud and clear, it all sounds like demo track that might come with a new bass synth software or a drum sample pack or something

this is more my speed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA-m99MdejE

^ For a minute I was thinking that was quite pleasant but slightly familiar. Then I realised the rhythm track and swoopy noises are just a straight lift from"The Mystics" by PFM. From 1995.

Sadly, Mark Goodings of Hidden Agenda, the awesome rare groove sampling Metalheadz mid 90s outfit died a few weeks ago.

This is out today and nicely channels their style...

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

is it? i just gave "the mystics" a quick listen and i don't hear it ... maybe i missed the part you're talking about

though of course i concede the larger point, "juice it" is shameless 90s liquid d&b revivalism

speaking of PFM ("progressive future music"!) i have been listening to this comp for the past few days

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Storm-From-The-East/release/9808

it was so much better in the 90s

i heard about mark goodings. really sad news. hidden agenda were always so underrated.

that dub phizix track reminds me that they managed the only good track on the ill fated metalheadz 03 comp (i think that was the point when i realized it was over for metalheadz)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihsHJ7DLKPo

that dub phizix track is really cool, maybe i should pick up that dub phizix fabriclive mix i was talking about upthread

i will also allow that the om unit + krust track you posted was pretty cool

this masterpiece was my favorite hidden agenda track

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

As it's the festive period why not post this here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsKKf-WNtdI

I was thinking about doing a short poll of the year if people are interested, but then I thought nah, they're probably not.

I would have had an uninformed ballot in said poll but eh

Came here to post: http://www.igiveyougive.org/Gift/50/foreign-concept/music-for-aleppo
Some nice dnb supporting Doctors Without Borders. Eight tracks for $4 if you play your cards right, and all proceeds go to a good cause.

^ Ah yes "Progressive Future Music". Terrible name (of it's time, rather like the Storm from the East compilation although I don't backlash that stuff as much as some e.g. Simon Reynolds) but some legendary tracks ("Cruising Detroit", "Danny's Song" and of course "The Western")

I recall once seeing an FBD Project 12" in Fopp, Glasgow on which the store assistant had written out FBD as "Future Beyond Dance". However I had read in the mid 90s rave fanzine Eternity that it actually stood for "Funded by Drugs" because Neil Trix has sold weed to buy his studio. Neil confirmed this was correct many years later when I enquired on Twitter.

In tribute then, I shall post this stone cold classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlNFEsyq5PQ

Some late entries...

Hidden Turn - Not Kill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_ZB7sFEjpg

Quite a bit of Teklife stuff also skirts around d'n'b/jungle territory...

DJ Chap - Float

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzQxhpOL2eY

Taso X DJ Manny X DJ Tre - Bussin

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

Quite a bit of Teklife stuff also skirts around d'n'b/jungle territory...

DJ Chap - Float

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzQxhpOL2eY

Taso X DJ Manny X DJ Tre - Bussin

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

Taso X DJ Manny X DJ Tre - Bussin

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

feel like fresh 86 label had a particularly good year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1AAIxUaeB0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfwVSrK1XOc

another release i enjoyed

Playlist is finalized for the year here.

ILM's Rolling Drum & Bass Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist