Inspired by catching a special late nineties set by Dillinja a number of years ago, where he played dipping in and out of different styles, together with my continued love of old One In The Jungle rips, this is the first in a new series journalling my favourite drum & bass tracks, across all shades and sounds of the genre, including but also beyond the usual big tracks that come up in most history style mixes... Blue Note style. More focus on the blends here rather than heavy editing, although some tracks just make cameos rather than get decent airtime.

Dj Krust - Soul In Motion
Codename John - The Warning
Matrix - Double Vision
DJ Krust - Blaze Dis One
Doc Scott - Blue Skies 
Dillinja - Promise
Dj Rap & Voyager - Abyss
Marvellous Cain - Everyday
Jonny L - This Time (Cool Dub)
Alaska And Nucleus - Project Two
Jonny L - This Time (Jonny  L & Roni Size Mix)
Studio Pressure - Presha III (Pay Keith Dubplate Version)
Unit 1 - Atlantic Drama
DJ Rap - Digable Bass (Heaven Remix)
Wax Doctor - Kid Caprice
Adam F - Circles 
Roni Size - Dayz
DJ Die - Achilles Heel 
Jonnie Blaze - Strumming Dubs VIP
DJ Die - On Time
DJ Die - Autumn
Scorpio - Trouble
DJ Zinc - pranksters
IQ Collective - Mode One
Mask - Better World
DJ Kane - The Wrath
Adam F - Metropolis [Doc Scott Remix]
Doc Scott - Drumz '95 (Nasty Habits Remix)
Rollers Instinct - The Mutant
MC Fats -  Don't Take The Shit
Ed Rush & Nico - Mothership (Dom & Roland Remix)
Boymerang - Mind Control
Source Direct - The Cult (The Initiation Test)
Source Direct - The Crane
Nasty Habits - Shadow Boxing

High Dynamic Rage - Part 2 (a selection of my favourite drum & bass)

House of Black Lanterns is the latest artistic guise of Dylan Richards (formerly known as King Cannibal when working on Ninja Tune and Zilla on Warp Records).

Championed by the likes of Mary Anne Hobbs, hand-picked by Björk to work on her recent ‘Biophilia’ project, selected by Liam Howlett to remix the Prodigy, invited to compile retrospectives of the Warp and Ninja Tune catalogues as Zilla and King Cannibal respectively and DJ Mag Best of British 'Best Mix CD' award nominee, Richards is no stranger to critical recognition when it comes to twisted, layered soundscapes.

House of Black Lanterns delivers a defined change in vision and style with the material already receiving widespread support. The debut album 'Kill The Lights' on Fabric's imprint 'Houndstooth' retains the earlier influence of DJ Krust’s sprawling drum & bass soundscapes, House of Black Lanterns sees Richards develop his sound to incorporate the dub-inflected techno textures of Rhythm & Sound whilst nodding to the catchy, yet bleak floorfillers of Trax, all inspired by the modern noir visual style of Michael Mann.

In between sets at both Berghain and Panorama Bar, The Roundhouse, Boileroom, Fabric and Melkweg, remixes have been traded with Breakage, Dave Clarke & Mr Jones's _Unsubscribe_ project, followed by a  EP on Hypercolour and a release for Doc Scott's 31 Records. His new conceptual album piece ‘You Were Telling Me of Mountains’ has just been released, backed up with a hefty run of more dancefloor orientated tracks across Creme's new Jericho One imprint, Darkroom Dubs and coming soon, EPM.

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