Drop The Hammer: Crate-Digging Bass Music Mixes

<a href="http://sonicrampage.org/blog/2008/10/pearsall-presents-drop-the-hammer-1/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Pearsall presents Drop The Hammer 1</b></a>&#13;
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Mixed in Edinburgh, June 2003&#13;
(64:13, 101.44 MB, APX VBR MP3)&#13;
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Style: drum n’ bass from the mid to late 1990′s&#13;
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Tracklisting:&#13;
01. P-Funk – P-Funk Era (diz1iz4yasoul) (Frontline)&#13;
02. DJ Red – Uprise (Trouble On Vinyl)&#13;
03. Adam F – Circles (Andy C Remix) (F-Jams)&#13;
04. Nemesis feat. DJ Kane – System (Renegade Hardware)&#13;
05. Gang Related &amp; Mask – Dictation (Dope Dragon)&#13;
06. Ganja Cru – Can’t Handle The Streets (Fear Mix 2) (Frontline)&#13;
07. Special K – Pressure Roll (Proper Talent)&#13;
08. A-Sides – Punks (Rewind Selector Mix) (Strictly Underground)&#13;
09. Tekniq – The Riot (Formation)&#13;
10. Mobb Deep – Shook Ones (DJ Zinc D&amp;B Remix) (White Label)&#13;
11. Technical Itch – Rough &amp; Tough (Moving Shadow)&#13;
12. Capone – Massive (Hard Leaders)&#13;
13. Adam F – Lighter Style (Section 5)&#13;
14. Dillinja – Deadly Deep Subs (Remix) (Razor’s Edge)&#13;
15. Genotype – Extra-Terrestrial (Renegade Hardware)&#13;
16. Shogun – Together (John B Remix) (Renegade Hardware)&#13;
17. DJ Krust – Warhead (Ram Trilogy Remix) (V Recordings)&#13;
18. Nasty Habits – Shadow Boxing (The Remix) (31 Records)&#13;
19. Doc Scott – Tokyo Dawn (Earth)&#13;
20. Ed Rush – What’s Up (No U-Turn)&#13;
21. Cybotron feat. Dillinja – Light Years (Prototype)

Drop The Hammer Mixes

Drop the Hammer 1 (Drum n' Bass)

http://sonicrampage.org/blog/2014/03/pearsall-presents-drop-the-hammer-10-the-dubstep-remixes-edition-deep-dubstep-mix/

I decided to dig into my crates and do a mix that is 100% dubstep and 100% remixes and that is mixed from 100% vinyl, using remixes by legendary artists like Skream, Loefah, Kryptic Minds, Benga, Caspa, Distance, Kode9, N-Type & many more!

Mixed in Berlin, January 2014
100% Vinyl!
(51:35, 118 MB, 320 kbps MP3)

Style: 100% Dubstep Remixes

Tracklisting:

01. The Others – Bushido (Caspa Remix) (Dub Police)
02. Von D – Truth (Tes La Rok Remix) (Black Acre)
03. Pinch & Moving Ninja – False Flag (Kryptic Minds Remix) (Tectonic)
04. Search & Destroy – Candyfloss (Loefah Remix) (Hotflush)
05. Dubkasm – Hail Jah (Jakes Remix) (Sufferah’s Choice)
06. Evergreen & Landlord – Jah Rain feat Dan Man (RSD Remix) (Ranking)
07. Benga vs G-Squad – Assumptions (Benga Remix) (Ringo)
08. Marc Ashken – Roots Dyed Dark (Skream Remix) (Leftroom)
09. Pinch – One Blood, One Source feat Rudey Lee (Distance Remix) (Tectonic)
10. Skream – I (Loefah Remix) (Tempa)
11. Caspa – Cockney Flute (Rusko Remix) (Dub Police)
12. Distance – Night Vision (Skream Remix) (Planet Mu)
13. Sub Scape – Screw Up (Matty G Remix) (Dub Police)
14. Ray Keith – Something Out There (Benton Remix) (UFO/Wheel & Deal)
15. The Bug – Skeng feat Killa P & Flow Dan (Kode9 Remix) (Hyperdub)
16. DVA – Bullet A Go Fly Feat. Badness, Riko, Flow Dan & Killa P (Dusk & Blackdown Remix) (Keysound)
17. Badness – Nightmare (Coki & Cotti Remix) (No Hats No Hoods)
18. The Bug – Poison Dart (Skream Remix) (Ninja Tune)
19. Lemon D – Dead By Dawn (N-Type Remix) (Valve)
20. Silkie – Cyber Dub (Skreamix) (Disfigured Dubz)
21. Donae’O – Riot Music (Skreamix) (Digital Soundboy)
22. DFRNT – Tripped (Synkro Remix) (On The Edge)

Drop The Hammer 10: The Dubstep Remixes Edition

For my latest edition of my Drop The Hammer series of crate-digging bass music mixes, I dug into my crates to pull together some of my favorites from the last couple of years, covering everything from grime to dubstep to electro to house to juke to future jungle, all wrapped up in a big bowl of bass. Enjoy!

http://sonicrampage.org/blog/2015/03/pearsall-presents-drop-the-hammer-11-bass-music-mix/

100% Vinyl!
Mixed in Berlin, March 2015
(46:04, 107 MB, 320 kbps MP3)

Cover image: S-Bahnhof Südkreuz, Berlin, January 2015

Style: Bass Music

Tracklisting:

01. Kingdom – Hood By Air Theme (Night Slugs)
02. Wen – Spark It (Keysound)
03. Jon Convex – Vacuum States (Nonplus)
04. S-X – Woooo Riddim (Butterz)
05. Scuba – M.A.R.S. (DJ-KiCKS)
06. Trevino – Tweakonomics (Revolve:r)
07. Trusta – Hypnotic (Swamp 81)
08. Boddika & Joy Orbison – Tricky’s Team (SunkLo)
09. Girl Unit – Club Rez (Night Slugs)
10. Addison Groove – This Is It (Tectonic)
11. Wen – Galactic (Keysound)
12. Special Request – Cold Blooded (Houndstooth)
13. Special Request – Ride (Special Request)
14. Dismantle – Broke (Terrain)
15. Untold – Stereo Freeze (R&S)
16. Royal T – Music Please (Butterz)
17. Addison Groove – Melody Maker (50 Weapons)
18. Skream – The Epic Last Song (Tempa)

Drop The Hammer 11 (Crate-Digging Bass Music Mix)

Recorded live for the After Dark Radio Weekender, this set dives deep into the atmospheric side of drum & bass—flowing breaks, expansive textures, and immersive rhythms built for late-night transmission. A contribution to a marathon weekend of sound with 22 DJs across two days_

AfterDarkRadio.org

After Dark Radio Weekender | TheComplexCurve - Atmospheric Jungle & DNB

Third instalment of our InSession series.

Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea (Paul SG & SoulStructure Remix)
Blade - High Frequency <Dub>
Renegade - Terrorist (Madcap Re-edit) <Dub>
Carlito - Hold Me Tight <Liquid V>
Hyper On Experience - Half Stepper (Madcap Remix) <Kniteforce>
SoulStructure & Blade - Cosmic Groove <Dub>
Surreal - BMO <Jazzsticks Dub>
Paul SG - Pail White Boy <Beatalistics>
Addiction & L-Side - Life <Dub>
Blade - Ghetto Music <Dub>
Jazz Cartel - Blue Haze (Rowpieces Remix) <Creative Wax Dub>
Surreal & Motiv - Like You Should <Jazzsticks Dub>
Viewer & Weedow - Untitled <Smooth N Groove Dub>
Soulmatic - Self Belief <Good Looking Records>
Subsid - Time Flies <Smooth N Groove Dub>
Paul SG - Know You <Jazzsticks Dub>
SoulStructure & Blade - Untitled <Dub>
LTJ Bukem - Rhodes to Freedom <Good Looking Records>

InSession 03 : SoulStructure

https://www.hardscore.com/?p=1380

01 The Prodigy -G Force – XL Recordings
02 A Guy Called Gerald – Anything – Sony
03 Desired State(s) – Turn On – Karma Records
04 I.C.P. – Free & Equal (Bonus Beats Mix) – Raiders Records
05 LTJ Bukem – Delitfol (A2) – White
06 Sys’tem X – Wind It Up (Bumpy Instrumental Mix) – Subversion Records
07 Break The Limits – Paranoize – Break The Limits
08 New Era – New Era – Great Asset
09 D’Cruize – I Believe – Boogie Times Records
10 Goldfinger – No Sell Out (Defender Mix) – Blaag Records
11 Toxic – Club Quest – Contagious Records
12 Desired State – Dance The Dream (George Kelly Dub Mix) – Dance Wax
13 Masters at Work – Just a ‘lil’ Dope – Cutting Records
14 Low Noise Block – Rave In A Bedroom
15 The Witch Doctor – Sunday Afternoon – Mutant Records
16 Project One – Smokin’ – Rising High Records
17 Isotonik – Different Strokes – Orange

This mix was recorded on Jungletrain, 8th July 2007 [EXT064]

DJextreme - 1991 Hardcore Vol.4

Venom - Roller Express Classics Mix (1994)

Love Dove Jay is back on 8205 with two excellent 94-95 tracks that never made it out back in the day.  “Assassinator” is a crazy ragga jungle tune full of thundering amens, relentlessly chopped and processed alongside booming bass and massively timestretched vocals. On the flip, “Peace Within” is a much more laid back tune:  classy think break, gated vocals and a sweet melody. 
To be released on Friday August 1st, 12pm on https://8205.bandcamp.com. 
Available on black and clear/orange marbled vinyl

[8205-025] A Love Dove Jay - Assassinator (clip)

Warlock BBD - Distant Memory - https://mettasonic.bandcamp.com
Chronicle - Higher Limits - https://chronicle.bandcamp.com
arcologies - many universes - https://arcologies.bandcamp.com
Trident - Psychosis - https://omnimusic.bandcamp.com
Future Engineers - Scratch in the Surface - https://transferencerecordings.bandcamp.com
Newtype - Static in the Rain - DUB
Kodama - What Divides Us - Forthcoming AGN7 Audio	
Silence Groove - Unworthy Species - https://makeorbreak.bandcamp.com/	
Mutant_Limit - Arcane Drift - https://bitwisemusic.bandcamp.com
CITIZENS OF EARTH - CITIZENS OF GANDAHAR - DUB	
Derek Lee - The Chase - DUB	
K3Bee - The First & The Last - https://k3bee.bandcamp.com
Photek - The Forge - Photek Music	
Woken Balance & Trident - Void - https://codenamercrds.bandcamp.com
Evil Ape - Echos From The Canopy - https://evilape.bandcamp.com/	
Duburban - Late Cruising - https://duburban.bandcamp.com
Suburban Architecture - After All - https://suburbanarchitecture.bandcamp.com
Human Synthetics - Reality Function - https://dreamschemesaudio.bandcamp.com
Eusebeia - Flow - https://mindgamesfiles.bandcamp.com
Shadow Club - Phaedra 4 - https://echochambersound.bandcamp.com
Pixl - Galaxy Dub - https://loopprogression.bandcamp.com
Ricky Force - Lock Up - https://creativewaxrecords.bandcamp.com
Tursio - Faller (Original Mix) - https://www.beatport.com/label/hi-fi-jungle/126582	
Submerse - Nobody Knows	Visit - https://futureretrolondon.bandcamp.com
Human Synthetics - Renegade - https://dreamschemesaudio.bandcamp.com
STUNNA + CALCULON - DIME PIECE - https://www.beatport.com/release/instrumentals-ep/5161228	
The Meditator & Ben Kei - Diggin' Deep - https://whodemsound.bandcamp.com
Buex - Foundation - DUB

Unrivalled Sounds #67 @ Jungletrain 09/08/25

1. Krugah - New Time Bangarang - Self-release/Bandcamp
2. BC Rydah - Murderous Ting - Yeska Beatz
3. Opius - Trust The Process - Ballpark Recordings
4. BC Rydah - Reason To Kill - Yeska Beatz
5. Krugah - You 2 Me - Self-release/Bandcamp
6. Fundamentals - Break Free - Unreleased
7. Fundamentals - Bring It Back - Unreleased
8. Opius - Tight Grace - Rigatoni
9. Jordan Williams - Spring Cafe (Krugah Fall Came Too Soon Remix) - Rigatoni
10. R Hawk - I Wanna Rock (Krugah's Funky Entendre Remix) - XPresha Records
11. BC Rydah - Lik Up Di Place - Yeska Beatz
12. Opius - Version Live - Ballpark Recordings
13. Opius - Untold - Ballpark Recordings
14. Quaad & Fundamentals - Underground Sound - Unreleased
15. BC Rydah - Dawn's Calling - Rigatoni
16. Krugah - Choppa Skank - Self-release/Bandcamp
17. Fundamentals - Moody Flutes - Rigatoni
18. BC Rydah - Ganjahman - Yeska Beatz


Atmospheric Jazz 54 (All Opius/BC Rydah/Krugah/Fundamentals) mixed by Jordan Williams

TRACKLIST 

Funk Alchemist 

Tursio - Electric Storm
Dubruban, Peeb and Pixl - Only You
K Super - Basic Understanding
Champa B - Torment
Sully - Amor (Digital Remix)
Radicall - Oddity
Adam F - Circles (Fez&#39;s Amen Mix) (Dub)
Equinox - Lonely
Greekboy - Mythology
Ricky Force - Been a Long Time
Need for Mirrors - Pagans
Funk Alchemist - Rebirth
Da Ruff - Nee Naa
Sully - Amor (Digital Remix) (Reprise)
Funk Alchemist - Metal Plate (Dub)
Orca - Sympathy
Krash Dubs - Mayday (Dub)
Sweetly - The Zone
Samurai Breaks &amp; Tim Reaper - Bandits (You Know What It Is)
Funk Alchemist &amp; Zeldin - Drunk (Dub)
Loqum - Free Fall
Arcane &amp; Weighty Jungle - Glass Moon
Rinse 3000 - Your Power (Dub)
Artificial Red - Somthin&#39; I Know

Dan Dara 

Sheba Q + Nectax – Asterix
Dark After Light – Have Another (Dub)
Damian’s Ghost – On The Mist
FTL – Rude One
Harmony – Rage (Ricky Force Remix)
DJ Trax – 20,000 Beats Under The Sea
Nebula &amp; Tim Reaper – Without Fear
Pugilist &amp; Tamen – Limerick
Kola Nut – Dream World
Icon Roller – Wide Awake
ASC – Crystal Flash
Nine Windows – Mirror Image
Nebula – Fantasia
Suburban Architecture – New Horizons (DJ Crystl Remix)
FTL – Odyssee
Suburban Architecture – Solar Winds
Tim Reaper – Lanterns VIP
Fracture &amp; Tim Reaper -Lickshot (ft. Blackeye)
Artificial Red – The Killing Joke (Dub)

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Syncopated Percussive Rhythms w/ Dan Dara & Funk Alchemist - 16/09/2025

“My Music” by Army of Ghosts is taken from the forthcoming album Totems. A collection of 90s-inspired drum & bass tracks focusing on positivity and respect. Each track is an ode to either a style or a producer that moved or inspired us during the early to mid-nineties.

Totems is a passion project that aims to channel our creativity and spread joy. It pays respect to labels and artists whose originality and creativity inspired us and generations of electronic music fans and producers.

It seems fitting to begin this final Army of Ghosts project by returning to how it started – a collaboration with John from Foul Play.

I met John through Twitter after discovering he was still making music under the name Johnny Halo. Like many of us at the time, he was interested in creating music at a slower tempo than drum & bass, but his love for jungle remained.

We began discussing collaborating, and he sent over stems for a track called Red (or it might have been Redd). Dominic and I sifted through the parts to find our favourites, programmed a chunky broken beat, and then added vocal samples to give it character.

Dominic and I produced the track in my front room and titled it “Deep Redd”. One of many nerdy references we would make in our music to classic horror films that Dom and I have a passion for. We later recorded music together under the names Argento and Romero, referencing two film directors whose work we admire.

The artist name Army of Ghosts comes from recording that track as John also produces under the name Skeleton Army, while Dominic mainly uses Sonar’s Ghost as his artist name, and I also go by the name A Hungry Ghost, due to the name of the blog I used to run.

Army of Ghosts has a fluid line-up, although Dominic or I are the constant members, we don’t always work together on the tracks and other producers have also worked with us, especially on this album, all under the name Army of Ghosts.

“My Music” is a collaboration between Dominic and John, a tribute to tracks that would have been played at clubs like Speed & Swerve in the mid-nineties.

Soulful and uplifting, “My Music” is the perfect way to launch the Totem project.

Army of Ghosts - My Music

Intrigue with Ben Soundscape & Conrad Subs - 26 October 2025

Happy Halloween!

For your audio enjoyment, please find enclosed 15 fantastic tunes from that period in UK rave music from 1993 to 1994 where darkside hardcore was beginning to morph into jungle, where chopped-up breakbeats co-existed happily with stomping four-to-the-floor kickdrums, and delirious pianos and Essex ravebird vocals snuggled up to dread-heavy darkside ambience ... and, of course, everything was underpinned by heavy heavy bass.

Want to hear this stuff on a big-ass system in a dark room? 

Yes, of course you do!

Therefore you must (simply must!) come along to Parallax at St Georg in Berlin on November 28th to join myself, @vali_nmeclick, @yencee and Scheckkartenpunk for a whole night of vintage jungle, hardcore, and UK rave music. Fun for all the family!

More details: https://www.facebook.com/events/853744074724184/

More info on this mix: http://sonicrampage.org/blog/2015/10/pearsall-presents-drop-the-hammer-12-the-jungle-tekno-edition/

100% Vinyl!
Mixed in Berlin, September 2015
(43:56, 100 MB, 320 kbps MP3)

Style: Darkside Hardcore and Early Jungle

Tracklisting:

01. Nookie – Give A Little Love (Reinforced)
02. Skanna – Nightstalker (Sublogic)
03. Doc Scott – Rage (Reinforced)
04. Essence Of Aura – Floodlite (Sublogic)
05. Bizzy B & Cool Hand Flex – Come Back To Me (Brain)
06. Doc Scott – Drumz VIP (Metalheadz)
07. LTJ Bukem – Enchanted (Good Looking)
08. Desired State – Killer Beat (Ram Records)
09. DJ Crystl – Inna Year 3000 (Force Ten)
10. Dillinja – Deadly Ceremonies (Deadly Vinyl)
11. Lee & Tango – Solutions (Legendary)
12. DJ Spinback – In Effect (Remix) (Legendary)
13. Ed Rush – Bludclot Artattack (Lick 1) (No U-Turn)
14. Nookie – T-Three (Reinforced)
15. Trip-One – Snowball (Remix) (Kniteforce)

Drop The Hammer 12: The Jungle Tekno Edition

OK, so this missed Halloween by almost two weeks, but sometimes life gets in the way. In any case, I am pretty excited to revive my long-running Drop The Hammer series of crate-digging bass music mixes with this 13th edition; one that is devoted to the original mid to late 90's sounds of techstep / neurofunk drum n' bass, or just darkside if you prefer. 

This was recorded in one take with no practice and no prep, just raw rave-style selecting and mixing ... enjoy!

Blog: http://sonicrampage.org/blog/2019/11/pearsall-presents-drop-the-hammer-13-too-late-for-treats-but-not-for-tricks-fierce-techstep-beats/

More Drop The Hammer mixes: https://soundcloud.com/sonicrampage/sets/drop-the-hammer-crate-digging

More techstep mixes: https://soundcloud.com/sonicrampage/sets/techstep-darkside-drum-n-bass

Mixed in Berlin, November 2019
100% Vinyl
(74:55, 171 MB, 320 kbps mp3)

Tracklisting:

01. Optical - To Shape The Future (Remix) (Metalheadz)
02. Jonny L - Piper (XL Recordings)
03. Mampi Swift - 2nd Strike (True Playaz)
04. Decoder - Twister (Tech Itch)
05. Zenith - Immortal (Frontline)
06. Ed Rush - Density (Metalheadz)
07. Dom & Roland - Swarm (Dubs from the Dungeons)
08. Cybotron feat. Dillinja - Light Years (Prototype)
09. Roni Size & Reprazent - Share The Fall (Grooverider's Jeep Style Mix) (Talkin' Loud)
10. Trace & Nico - Replicant (Idiosyncratic)
11. Trace & Nico - Amtrak (Nu Black)
12. Elementz of Noize - Other Side of Town (SOUR)
13. Technical Itch - The Virus (Moving Shadow)
14. Desired State - Invasion (Ram)
15. Dillinja - Armoured D (Metalheadz)
16. Dylan - Virus (Droppin' Science)
17. Future Forces Inc - Symetrix (Renegade Hardware)
18. Dom & Roland - Parasite (Moving Shadow)
19. The Limit - Get Stoned (Emotif)
20. The Specialist - Drop It On The One (Dread)
21. Stakka & K-Tee - Andromeda (Liftin' Spirit)
22. MTS - Hard Disk (Juice)
23. Bad Company - Brain Scan (BC Recordings)
24. Source Direct - Enemy Lines (Science)
25. Dom & Rob - Distorted Dreams (Moving Shadow)

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Drop the Hammer Mixes

Drop the Hammer 13: Too Late for Treats, but not for Tricks (Old Skool Techstep Drum n' Bass)

45 minutes of deep and funky beats from Pearsall, featuring tracks by Roska, MJ Cole, Boddika, Ikonika, DJ Zinc and many more! &#13;
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Tracklisting:&#13;
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01. Cooly G - Love Dub Refix (Hyperdub)&#13;
02. Roska - Squark (Rinse)&#13;
03. Ikonika - Idiot (Altered Natives Remix) (Hyperdub)&#13;
04. Hard House Banton - Sirens (Spoilt Rotten)&#13;
05. Emvee - Glitch Dub (Wireblock)&#13;
06. DVA - Ganja (Hyperdub)&#13;
07. Roska - Holograph (Fantastic Four)&#13;
08. Lil Silva - Night Skanker (Night Slugs)&#13;
09. DJ Zinc - Nexx (Bingo Bass)&#13;
10. MJ Cole - Volcano Riddim (Prolific)&#13;
11. Roska - Time Stamp (Rinse)&#13;
12. DJ Zinc - 128 Trek (Bingo Bass)&#13;
13. L-Vis 1990 - United Groove (MJ Cole Remix) (Cheap Thrills)&#13;
14. Cosmin TRG - Twilight Riddim (Tempa)&#13;
15. Lil Silva - No Hooks (Night Slugs)&#13;
16. DJ Zinc - Wile Out feat Ms Dynamite (Bingo Bass)&#13;
17. Ikonika - Aqueous Cream (Hum + Buzz)&#13;
18. Boddika - Boddika's House (Naked Lunch)&#13;
19. Zomby - Rumours &amp; Revolutions (Brainmath)&#13;
20. Modeselektor - Art &amp; Cash (SBTRKT Remix) (50 Weapons)

Drop The Hammer 9 (UK Bass)

American in Berlin! I've been a dj since 1997, playing across a wide range of dance music genres, as you can see from the variety of mixes. I love it all! 

Want recommendations? Drop me a DM and I'll hook you up. 

I sometimes play at Berlin clubs, but mostly I am a hardcore vinyl collector and bedroom mixer. Check out my blog at www.sonicrampage.org/blog

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