Following up the launch of RAM Records new RAMlife compilation series last year (which saw Loadstar offer up a platter of essential tracks), head honcho Andy C has tapped the man of the moment, Audio, for the second edition. 

Ordering an all-out assault on our eardrums, Audio collects 27 tracks from the likes of Optiv & BTK, DC Breaks, Ulterior Motive, Noisia, Bad Company, June Miller, Mejus and more, binding them together with the vicious RAM attitude that has helped the label dominate drum & bass. The album also features today's premiere 'Heavy Bettie VIP', an unstoppable cut from Neonlight, that is just as weighty as its name suggests!

Audio Presents RAMlife Drum & Bass is set for release February 22nd, head over to the label store to pre-order your copy: https://www.ramrecords.com/shop/download/rammlp21d

And if that isn't enough Audio for you, RAM have just announced the man himself will be playing a RAMlife set on Saturday 7th March at Oval Space, London as part of the Ram Weekender. Early bird tickets have already sold out so head here to grab yours quick: https://ramrecords.ticketabc.com/events/ram-weekender/

Tracklist: http://datatransmission.co.uk/news/exclusive-premiere-neonlight-heavy-bettie-vip/

Neonlight - Heavy Bettie VIP

Drum&BassArena 2015 features my exclusive track with https://soundcloud.com/viniciushonorio aka BTK & https://soundcloud.com/optiv - 'Footprint'
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BTK, Maztek & Optiv - Footprint  (Drum&BassArena Exclusive)

Today we’re lucky enough to be premiering what someone in the office just referred to as a ‘serious nugget.’ Yeah, OK, so that person was me. And yes, I did say it to myself, in my head, after listening to it over and over again; but the fact remains and it is what it is. The Critical Music signed drum & bass producer, Emperor’s'She Said VIP’ – which will be exclusively available from the Critical store this Monday – is superlatively frenetic, heaving it’s way out of the rousing build up introduction with the sort of lurching industrial bassline that’ll set most dancefloors afire. The full Into Black EP will be released on vinyl and digital this coming Monday, but we’re toasting the publication of the EP’s pre-order link here today because it ties in nicely with the fact that we recently announced the next Critical Sound date (10th July) where you’ll be able to witness Emperor going B2B with The Upbeats.

Advance tickets: http://www.fabriclondon.com/club/listing/1101

Critical Shop

Emperor - She Said VIP

Yay, my Remix for Icicle's Dreadnaught will be released 28th of June! :]

Official Shogun Audio Press Release:
The 'Entropy Remixed EP' project draws on the talents of some of Icicle’s favourite producers to bring their own take on music from the album and due to popular demand we have also included Phace’s deadly remix of ‘Dreadnaught’ in the package - another essential addition to the Shogun Audio artillery.

Pre-order Vinyl: bit.ly/EntropyRMXVinyl

*Order Icicle - Entropy Remixed (Vinyl) from the Shogun Shop and receive Icicle & Mefjus - Isolation (Proxima Remix) free in the MP3 download.

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Icicle - Dreadnaught (Phace Remix)[Shogun Audio]

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What do you do when youre playing at one of the biggest festivals on the planet, Tomorrowland? 

Well, if youre Steve Aoki you re-enact a scene from Titanic, if youre David Guetta you play your cover of a well-known nursery rhyme, and if youre James Marvel and D&B Award nominee for Best MC, MC Mota you debut your brand new single live on stage.One of the D&B scenes most respected record labels and a firm Zane Lowe favourite, AudioPorn, snapped up James Marvel in 2013, thanks to his fresh take on the genre. 

Having remixed both Dub FX and Xilent to huge effect recently, causing riots on 170+ bpm dancefloors across the globe, now its James Marvels opportunity to destroy dancefloors with his own original music.And so the story of two artists going to war with emotionally bland music begins. Way Of The Warrior is not only D&B at its finest and most energetic, its also drum & bass at its most experimental. Fuelled with MC Motas off-key spitfire raps and James Marvels uncompromising, head-splitting bass, this is a battle weapon thats set to cause havoc when it is unleashed via AudioPorn on 11th September 2015.

Completing the single is Outlife, a distinctly different cut that showcases a mellower, softer side to James Marvels production. Undoubtedly, James Marvel is not a name to watch; with music this good hes a name to listen to.

Buy on Beatport

James Marvel Ft. MC Mota - Way Of The Warrior

Out now via Viper Recordings on all digital platforms and vinyl!
Beatport: http://bit.ly/vpr080bp
Spotify: http://bit.ly/vpr080spot
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/vpr080
Triple Vision: http://bit.ly/vpr080tv [VINYL]
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Google Play: http://bit.ly/vpr080gplay 

InsideInfo & Mefjus
Pulsation / Talisman
1. Pulsation
2. Talisman

Label: Viper Recordings
Cat: VPR080
Genre: Drum & Bass
Format: 12" Vinyl (full artwork) & Digital
Released: 9th October 2015
More Info: http://bit.ly/vpr080info

MEFJUS ONLINE:
https://www.facebook.com/mefjus
https://twitter.com/martinmefjus
https://soundcloud.com/mefjus
https://instagram.com/martinmefjus

INSIDEINFO ONLINE:
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https://twitter.com/paulinsideinfo
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InsideInfo & Mefjus - Pulsation

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It hasn't taken long for Document One to define their own niche among the Technique Recordings roster. Brimming with multi-genre experience, this team has come well-equipped with a fresh and clean production style, overt musicality and uncompromising levels of funk. This release reasserts their commitment to the dancefloor while showing off yet more colours from their palette.

“Run the Block” takes the tough but smoky sound that Document One has made their own and adds a layer of East Coast hip-hop flavour. The rap-along vocal, that trademark upright and synthetic bass fusion, the popping drums and live-instrument arrangement combine to make this tune a definitive statement of Document One's musical heritage. And of course, that means it has that jazzfunk dancefloor energy in abundance.

Then “Small Steps” flips the script, darkening things up in a way you might not be expecting from these guys. The intro is the sound of approaching menace, as military drums call the dance to order. An eerie dialogue sample ratchets up the tension, before a building kick pattern is deployed as a call-to-arms. Then the drop is all about those twisted tendrils of bass, snaking around techstep drums and ghost-in-the-machine stabs. This is what happens when musicality meets aggression on a hell-bent mission to mash up the rave.

So, as well as keeping a firm grip on their low-down dancefloor funking credentials, this release has proved that Document One have a love and talent for all sides of this music. As their track titles declare, they “Run the Block” in the funk neighbourhood and they're making “Small Steps” into the shadowy technoid realm. Now they've shown they can kill the dance in both, it's clear the Document One operation doesn't believe in boundaries.

Tracklisting:

 1.	Run the Block
 2.	Small Steps

For interview requests and further information, contact:

info@techniquerecordings.co.uk

More info: www.techniquerecordings.co.uk

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Pre Order

Document One - Small Steps [ Friction Premiere]

TC - Interstellar - out now everywhere
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TC - Interstellar

S9 delivers the second release in his Quarters EP Series for Titan Records with this heavyweight "Aperture" leading the way.

Massive!

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Quarters EP (Part 2)

S9 - Aperture [Bassrush Premiere]

Emperor - Begin (feat. Georgia Yates)

Based out of Linz, north Austria, Martin Schober is a singular protagonist at the forefront of this beguiling game we call drum & bass. He likes hip-hop, skateboarding, schnitzel, Leibniz biscuits and long walks in the sunset, but he’s most respected for how he traipses across electronic music’s wildest terrains with total boundary abandonment… And is regarded as a leading influential new-gen figure in the genre. 

From his agenda-setting halftime twist of ‘Sunday Crunk’ to his rolling, emotional collabo cameo on Camo & Krooked’s acclaimed album ‘Mosaik’. From his entrance into the Fabriclive mix hall of fame with a mix album comprising entirely of his own productions (‘Fabriclive 95’) to his Drum&BassArena Award-winning debut album ‘Emulation’, Mefjus’s signature sound has been felt across the furthest expanses of the genre since he emerged in the early 2010s. 

Now working closely with Vision - the label run by kindred studio spirits Noisia - Mefjus continues to fine-tune his musical syntax, technical dexterity, eye for detail and deft groove sensibilities. The latest chapter to savour this on-going flux of development is his second album ‘Manifest’.

Released April 2018, ‘Manifest’ is the sound of Mefjus 2.0. After several years in the studio wilderness, exploring the dark science of song structure, musicality and textural contrasts, ‘Manifest’ captures a new mindset for Mefjus. Raw, energetic, playful and subversive, ‘Manifest’ is the most personal, diverse and daring body of work to date. Not so much as reminder of why he occupies such a unique position in drum & bass but a straight-up statement of intent.

So now you know. And knowledge is power. Thanks for reading.