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

Meanwhile by mere mortals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPBCpv6iId4

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-we0z-F8RrY

Finally for now, what Doc Scott says on Twitter, will be the last ever version of Shadowboxing, "unless Serrick May ever fancies having a go". Old school amen tearout business

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79wEMtsmrVY

Been a great month for the genre!!

Derrick, obviously

i like that Machine Girl

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

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Odd one that, a vaporwave version of late 90s lounge D&B. I wasn't really that into it TBH, though I was warming to it a little by the end

RIP Tenor Fly - https://twitter.com/GROOVERIDERDJ/status/743831973769121793

This FBD Project come back tune from this year is pretty great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9L5r6lfugw

Though not as brilliant as "She's So" or "Gesture Without Motion" obv.

Another 2 minute Soundcloud snippet of an upcoming tune I heard recently. I really like the drums on this one. Sometimes I feel like drum lines on dnb tunes are simpler these days than they were in the 90s, and then something like this comes along and it really hits the spot for a minute. And of course, it's from Brazil.

Speedwagon - "Good Old Days," to be released on All Street Recordings b/w "Forgive Myself"
https://soundcloud.com/allstreetlabel/speedwagon-good-old-days-forthcoming

thread playlist updated

Bumper Month for DBridge, still showing 'em how it's done...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RFbnkUkxfo

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NleSA4Spck

plus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9QF5UjZI4o

Reinforced 1994 flavour on this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjQKP6z9Diw

And in a semi-retro jump up fashion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94GySqOFlG4

This wasn't spectacular on first listen but has really grown on me over the summer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBR11H2Hho8

Playlist updated; 50 tracks and 4 1/2 hours o' tracks

ILM's Rolling Drum & Bass Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

Can anyone get this to embed? Can't find it on his soundcloud when I click through

https://thump.vice.com/en_us/track/kimyan-law-yore-dub-stream

Some retro-ish lovers jungle from Seekersinternational, maybe it goes on this thread?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_jtJ25HEzY

Some atmospheric d'n'b ala Logical Progression era Bukem, Dan White - Precognitive Dreams:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1MSHfmoiTA

Really like that Seekersinternational track, good find. The Dan White is nice enough too, though seems out of place outside a club setting (suppose lots of D&B does)

A club night for new d'n'b taking off from this style - a rare thing.

Neurofunk? is it anything like Braindance? jkl;)

https://cylob.bandcamp.com/album/the-quantum-loonyverse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28rjdmi9Yao

Om Unit (who currently can do no wrong) + DJ Krust (who never has done any wrong).

This is an chugging episodic monster...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sc44nF2dxw

And something altogether more simple but beautifully executed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP3ZkfTmge4

Finally some super synth work on this

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

While I'm here, can I post this? It's not new but it's fucking brilliant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_UceUF4YFU

Urbandawn just released a full-length (named Gothenburg Cluster) on Hospital Recordings. I haven't listened yet but it's high on my to-do list. I heard one track from it in a mix and it was excellent.

https://keithfullertonwhitman.bandcamp.com/

some of the tracks here remind me of Hrvatski material from the late 90s.. haven't waded through much of these KFW tapes, but heard some alternate versions of Hrvatski tracks--suppose you'd classify is as jungle/d&b-type music?

Just updated the Youtube playlist - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1fmqf9vwPIkskLHY0QdE4MHWTmijn7-3

So, I've finally gotten around to checking out the Urbandawn LP (Gothenburg Cluster) and yes, it's really good - up there in my albums of the year after a couple of listens. It's got that mix of variety and inventiveness that's generally lacking from D&B LPs. So, posting a few tracks here, why not?

This is one of a few tracks which manages to incorporate jazz without it turning into one of those godforsaken loungecore LPs from the late 90s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeT4AruJcRg

This one is hard, aggressively funky, slightly melancholy, cheesy vocal samples, lots going on generally

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjG0nE9rw_o

Ok, one more from the Urbandawn LP (thought there is plenty more) - not sure how it will go down as it includes a lot of the euphoric / melancholy trance elements which people seem to find cheesy, but posting as I think it's just beautiful.

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

Come to think of it, there are a lot of elements on the LP which more tasteful UK producers would leave out - sci-fi vocal samples, session soul singers, etc. - but perhaps the message hasn't got through to Brazil? If so the lack of self-consciousness is refreshing.

This is pretty dope. Very Photek-y, and I like the half-time clave feel in almost all of the tracks.

https://soundcloud.com/samuraimusicgroup/sets/homemade-weapons-negative-space

Now I'm looking up videos of Daniel Baeder (the drummer that's my favorite part of those Urbandawn tracks) and he's ridiculous

Seems this is from 2015, but anyway, some very pleasant prog-jazz-D&B

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

This one is the ripest of all sci-fi-D&B cheese, delicious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NhKMFMs9Us

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