the rolls were so good back then. memories!!!!

they weren't calling it neurofunk in these days.. you are to blame for me falling into this!! Thanks!!❤️‍🔥⚡

To this day, this is my favorite Drum and Bass album in existence. I love to put it in my ears and run.

What a story! Thanks for the info behind thid mix.

The Lords never stood a chance. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Following up from his recent single, Jack Boston hits us with a awesome 30 minute soulful mix.
https://fanlink.tv/SYMM045

Jack Boston - Symmetry Mix August 2022

Here is my 60mins Hospital Records's new compilation "Fast Soul Music" inspired mix which was broadcasted on BBC 1xtra on 6th April 2015. I have mixed it with some of my brand new tunes and some of hospitals absolute classics. Enjoy :)

1.A Sides & Makoto - Searchin’ (DJ Marky Remix) 
2.Urban Species - Spiritual Love (Makoto DnB Edit) 
3.Makoto & Danny Wheeler - Midnight Hour 
4.High Contrast - Love Sick 
5.Technimatic - The Golden Section 
6.Bungle - Solitaire 
7.Logistics - Together 
8.London Elektricity - Rewind (Makoto Remix) 
9.Hugh Hardie - Tearing Me Apart (feat. Kyan) 
10.DJ Marky - Funky Train 
11.Makoto - YGMYC
12.Fred V & Grafix - Recognise 
13.Subwave - Start Get Down 
14.Nu:Logic - Morning Light 
15.Nu:Tone - System (Matrix & Futurebound Remix) 
16.Asides - Dreamworld 
17.T-ak & Makoto - Voyager 
18.London Elektricity -  Fast Soul Music 
19.Anile - To Live Without 

Makoto presents 60DNB Fast Soul Music - Hospital Records on BBC 1xtra

Digging deep into the Underground for these🔥

Next one is going to be a euphoric Dancefloor Special ‼️

Kruxer- Heavy Blends 006 | Minimal Deep 182

A true throwback from the early jungle era. Big up all junglist!

Dominate the chill space. © (Back to skool edit)

Here is “The Soldier’s Story”, my first truly original cd for the prestigious American electronic music label Moonshine. For this release I was given complete control of choosing all of the music and really went out of my way to find the best future thinking, unreleased and heavy as hell drum and bass at that time. This one was not just for the dancefloor and really started to establish the way I would approach choosing music for all future mix projects. Some of the key tunes on here would be my collaboration with Technical Itch “Atlantic State”. The bassline was born out of a keyboard glitch and the cool pads in the intro are from a Skinny Puppy sample cd. The name was a nod to the classic 808 State tune “Pacific State” (the Atlantic ocean separates the USA and the UK ;). Jonny L “Bellz” was just a white hot smasher that I loved to death. And “The Stalker” was a weird super minimal tune that eventually became the anthem for my drum and bass weekly “Platinum" in Philly (everyone used to love that track!). For the intro I used a bunch of samples from the videogames Half Life and Quake (I found the sound libraries and broke them up and mined the shit out of them). At one point I was contacted by some people who worked on Half Life and they said they used to play my mix at the office. That was awesome. This mix sounds fast because I mixed it on my home turntables that were modified to play faster than normal. I always thought faster was better. The artwork was done by the late Todd Baldwin of Airline Industries. He hired famous Marvel comics artist Paul Gosier to draw me as a super soldier for the cover. Most people didn’t really think it looked like me ;) Finally, I lifted the title from the movie “A Soldier’s Story”. In the drum and bass scene a “soldier” is a die hard fan of the music. That pretty much sums me up to this day. Enjoy!

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TRACKLIST

Dieselboy - Precautionary Procedure
Konflict - The Beckoning
Usual Suspects + Fierce - Sawn Off
DJ Friction - Photon Remix
Future Cut + Mark Da Intallex - Plastic
Technical Itch - Deception
Technical Itch - Stack
Moving Fusion - Sex Drive
Jonny L - The Bellz
Usual Suspects + Loxy - Stalker
Vertigo - Drained
Danny Breaks - Dissonance
Peshay - Vegas
Kosheen - Yes Men (Decoder Remix)
Technical Itch + Dieselboy - Atlantic State
Decoder - BS9

A Soldier's Story

System Upgrade was my 4th and final mix CD release for Moonshine back in 2000. I was on a roll at this point, given that my last CD “Soldier’s Story” had been released only one year before. I was super motivated by the freedom that I had finally been given to select all of the music in my mixes, and this tracklist reflects a truly diverse selection of really great drum and bass from that era. Being able to kick things off with the remix of “Mindscan” by the legends Ed Rush and Optical was truly an honor for me. At that time stateside artists and DJs were still struggling with garnering respect from the UK. I feel that this mix was sort of a transition for building trans-Atlantic relationships during that unfortunately tense era. Dillinja came through with a beast of a remix for American super producer Hive with “Ultrasonic Sound”. Decoder did serious justice to his remix of my tune “The Descent”. And E-Sassin was one of my favorite artists at the time and straight killed it with tracks like “Symptom”. A true American DNB classic. The rest of the mix was filled out with plenty of great music from the likes of Bad Company (the first time they licensed a tune for the American market), Kemal and Rob Data AKA Konflict and of course Dom + Roland, Tech Itch, etc. Was always super happy with the tunes I was able to get for this one. And yes, this was another mix I did in my pajamas sitting on the floor of my living room in my apartment in Philadelphia. Very classy! The artwork was handled by Justin Fines, otherwise known as Demo Design. I discovered his work on a flier at a rave in Detroit back in the 90s. He was way beyond most flier designers at that point in time. Currently he is killing it in the world of TV commercials here in NYC. Was very lucky to have him on board for this project. The concept of the mix was elevating consciousness through music. This theme played out through the title of the mix, the graphics, the liner notes, and the intro (which was a collaboration between myself and a Mr Justin Geller). Here is a fun story. The rainforest environment FX in the intro were recorded in binaural sound (that means in headphones they should sound like they are in true 3D audio). We also used a sample from one of my favorite new age / synth artists at the time named Steve Roach. Outside of the new age music scene I didn’t think he was well known. Buuut…Moonshine ended up getting contacted by his lawyers for my illegal sampling of his track. I had to forfeit all of my income from the CD to pay Steve Roach back for using his music in my intro without clearance. To this day I am still not sure how he found about it. Long story short, “System Upgrade” is a mix that reflected the vibe of drum and bass at the time and it was a very important stepping stone between what I had previously been doing before mix wise and what I would go on to do with the “6ixth Session” and future mixes. And, to this day, people still tell me that it is their favorite mix. I don’t disagree. I feel like this was an important moment in the progression of the  US drum and bass scene.

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TRACKLIST

Dieselboy - Loading Program
Ram Trilogy - Mindscan (Ed Rush + Optical Remix)
E-Sassin - Symptom
Hive - Ultrasonic Sound (Dillinja Remix)
Biostacis - Brain Hack
Dom + Roland - Can’t Punish Me
Decoder - Road Rage
Future Cut - Overload
Kemal + Rob Data - Konspiracy VIP
Stakka + Skynet - Side Effects
Dieselboy - The Descent (Decoder Remix)
Jonny L - Selecta
Decoder - Dumb
Facs + B-Key - Antics
Technical Itch - Deadline
Bad Company - Sentient 
Absolute Zero - The Code (Usual Suspects VIP)

System Upgrade

My second CD mix! Way way back in 1997 I was just beginning to make my mark as a DJ on a national scale. Still living in Pittsburgh at the time and working as tech support at a dial-up internet company called Telerama, I was spending all of my free time practicing on my turntables and playing whatever random shows came my way. The year before I had released “Drum And Bass Selection USA” with Moonshine Music in the states in combination with Suburban Base Records out of London (a very big label at the time). For this mix I was essentially given a tracklist of tunes by Dan Donnelly at Suburban Base to use. He went out of his way to try and select music that was brand new / unreleased and also stuff that reflected my musical tastes at the time (which was a combination of techy rollers and jump-up). During this period of my life I was living in a cheap ratty apartment and my humble equipment setup consisted of a pair of Technics 1200s and the lowest of the low budget of “dj mixers” - a Radioshack 32-1100A. Go ahead and google it. It was as zero frills as possible for a mixer compared to what exists today. Two phono inputs and a crossfader. No EQ. No bells. No whistles. Questionable sound quality. Most of the music Dan sent me for the mix was on vinyl. But 4 of the tunes were on dubplate - a record-like format that rapidly decreases in sound quality after only a few plays. I didn’t know the dubplate tunes AT ALL, which meant I had to somehow practice mixing with them while at the same time not ruining their sound quality. It was crazy! I think in the end I had to have Dan send me replacement dubplates because the original ones developed skips in them almost immediately and were unusable. Very very stressful. On top of this, I needed to record the mix to DAT which is a very high quality magnetic tape format that requires a special DAT machine. I had to go buy a one of these components from a local store, and when I got it home I opened the box to discover it full of pieces of wood and drywall - someone had previously bought it, took out the unit, filled the box with garbage and returned it. Even more stress. In the end the mix came out pretty decent given the circumstances. I do realize there is at least one slight offbeat mix somewhere in there. But given the low budget mixer, my lack of familiarity with the tunes and those sensitive dubplates…it could have been much worse. Artwork duties were handled by the always amazing Airline Industries out of DC. Oh one more thing - the track “2:01” by Remarc was accidentally left off of the tracklist in the liner notes. Whoops! 

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TRACKLIST

D’Cruz - Landspeeder
IQ Collective - Mode One
Simon + Andy C - Night Flight
Dream Team - Switch
Swoosh - Ya Rockin’
Substance - LF-Ant
Joker - Punx
Ill Figure - Style
Remarc - 2:01
Swift - Twisted
Swift - Analogue
Future Forces - Synthesis
Decoder - Twister
MTS - Instigator

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RESPECT LA! 05/18/2017

Ed:it delivers Bassic Mix #25 as one of the newest additions to the roster.

Synonymous with quality drum & bass, Ed:it has built up a strong following, with versatile releases landing on labels such as C.I.A., Dispatch and Commercial Suicide.

Now London based and working closely with Friction's Shogun Audio, a label that he dropped two EPs on in 2016, Ed:it is without doubt one to watch. His next EP for Shogun is coming later this year with his debut album following close after.

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Break - Promo Mix for Symmetry@Let It Roll 2017

THE HUMAN RESOURCE
EVOL INTENT ASSEMBLES THE MONSTER
a mix by Evol Intent

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Released in April of 2006, the HUMAN RESOURCE was a compilation of musical highlights from my drum and bass label HUMAN IMPRINT. The double vinyl release had brand new exclusive remixes and original music. The double CD release consisted of 12 tracks on CD1 and a great mix of 22 label jams on CD2 by my boys @evolintent entitled “Evol Intent Assemble The Monster”. The entire visual and audio “concept” for the album was based on the story of Frankenstein (hence the mix name). I collaborated on the mix intro with @evolintent and we called it VIVIFY (to animate / enliven). The packaging design was an idea that i worked out with my friend @joelsavitzky. He crushed it. I designed the HUMAN RESOURCE lettering for the front of the release. The inside of the booklet was bright red with an overlay of clear ink that looked like muscle tissue and a quote from the vocal we had made for the intro track - “the switch thrown as raw lightning arcs down the line / violent / consuming the cold form upon the table / within moments the power is diminished / by the glimmer of the half extinguished light / i saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open / it breathed hard and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs”. Lots and lots of thought went into what should have been a simple "Best Of” release. Extremely proud of this one. 

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TRACKLIST

Evol Intent x Dieselboy - Vivify
Infiltrata + Define - Parallel Universe
Mayhem, Evol Intent + Thinktank - Broken Sword
The Upbeats - Piss Fiend
Kaos, Karl K + Jae Kennedy - Moonraker (Gridlok Remix)
Evol Intent, Mayhem + Psidream - Assimilation
Styles of Beyond - Subculture (Upbeats Remix)
Kaos and Karl K (feat. Jae Kennedy) - Xanadu (Stratus Remix) 
Fresh - Wargames
Bad Company - Hysteria (Hive Remix)
Dieselboy + Kaos - Barrier Break 
Dieselboy + Kaos - Barrier Break (Infiltrata + Hochi Remix)
Evol Intent + Ewun – Reality Check
The Upbeats - Le Mammoth
Evol Intent + Ewun - The Rapture
BT - Knowledge Of Self (Evol Intent Remix)
Bad Company - Grunge (Dieselboy, Kaos + Karl K Remix)
Ewun - The Divide 
Stratus - You Must Follow
Stratus - You Must Follow (Dieselboy + Kaos Remix)
Stratus - You Must Follow (Evol Intent VIP)
Tech Itch + Dieselboy - Atlantic State (Gridlok Remix)
Dieselboy + Kaos - Submission
Sasha - Fundamental (Gridlok Remix)
BT - The Great Escape (Alliance Remix)

The Human Resource

The Human Resource - Evol Intent Assembles The Monster

FOUR MEN - ONE MISSION

It happened during the summer of 2000. North America’s most prominent drum and bass DJs joined forces to create the legendary crew known as PLANET OF THE DRUMS. Using their combined muscle to push drum and bass music into the spotlight of the main stage they toured tirelessly for well over a decade, fronted by the vocal rhyme animal known as Messinian. Their incessant drive and motivation helped set the groundwork of the scene that exists today.

Feeling their work completed, the team turned their focus to personal projects and the PLANET OF THE DRUMS program was retired. But as was soon discovered, the drum and bass scene in North America began a slow freefall into underground obscurity.

This could not stand.

Reuniting in 2017, the PLANET OF THE DRUMS crew returned to continue their original mission - celebrating, honoring and advancing drum and bass music. “AWAKENING” represents a retrospective of some of their favorite sounds, highlights and moments from the past year. What always made POTD special was the compelling combination of the boys’ varied styles - AK and his raw motherfucking breakbeats. Dara’s rolling dancefloor vibes. Dieselboy with the heavy cinematic pressure. Three hundred and sixty degrees of futuristic drum and bass business.

THE PLANET HAS AWAKENED!

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PLANET OF THE DRUMS ➤
fb.com/planetofthedrums

AK1200 ➤
fb.com/ak1200official
twitter.com/ak1200
soundcloud : soundcloud.com/ak1200

DARA ➤
fb.com/thedjdaraofficial
twitter.com/daralickt
soundcloud : soundcloud.com/dj-dara

DIESELBOY ➤
fb.com/dieselboy
twitter.com/djdieselboy
soundcloud : soundcloud.com/dieselboy

MESSINIAN ➤
fb.com/messinianmusic
twitter.com/mcmessinian
soundcloud : soundcloud.com/messiniandubstep

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CLICK HERE FOR TRACKLIST >> https://tinyurl.com/yblufllg

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