Limited Edition USB + T-Shirt + Digital → https://found.ee/New_Energy_Vol3
Shop Critical → https://shop.criticalmusic.com/store
Critical Bandcamp → https://criticalmusic.bandcamp.com/

New Energy Vol.3 is the final edition of Critical's very special compilation series, capturing the label’s sound and community at this moment in time. Across 19 tracks, the release brings together a broad cross-section of the Critical roster, from long-standing contributors to new voices entering the fold. Alongside a focus collaboration from Kasra, Enei and SOLAH, the compilation features tracks from artists including QZB, En:vy, Waeys, SMG, Sabre, Samurai Breakz and more.

Spanning dark rollers, vocal-led cuts, jungle-influenced rhythms and club-ready tools, New Energy reflects the breadth of the Critical sound.


USB / Digital →

En:vy & SMG - AF!

This is a 2-hour odyssey through Critical Music’s 2025 sound, a relentless journey into the deeper, darker, more aggressive side of drum & bass. Helmed by Kasra, Critical has been pushing underground sonics since 2002, forging a reputation for uncompromising beats, cutting-edge production & a roster of boundary-shaping artists who redefine what heavy D&B can be.

This mix captures that ethos perfectly: weighty rollers, neuro-tinged hits, tough grooves & impactful hard-hitting lyrics all woven together with precision. Expect sharply engineered double drops, raw energy that cuts through the speakers & moments built for both the headphones & the floor, cinematic tension one minute, club-ready impact the next.

From shadowy atmospherics to drive-forward peaks, this set is a tribute to a label that never sacrifices integrity for trend, a label that thrives on depth, texture & sonic intensity. Critical Music in 2025 is about punch, presence & pure adrenaline, & this mix is that in full effect.

Tracklisting:

1. Calyx - Deadly
2. Break and SOLAH - Short Stuff
3. Enei - Be The One
4. Kasra - Electronics
5. QZB - Cope
6. Kasra - No Mention
7. Simula - Afraid
8. SMG and VISLA - The Voice VIP
9. Enei, Kasra, YAANO and VISLA -  RAKKA (latesleeper Remix)
10. VISLA - March!
11. Waeys - Backhanded Wobbler
12. VISLA - Bones
13. Waeys - Let Off
14. Waeys - If Not Me
15. SMG - Halogater
16. Calyx - Forever
17. En:vy - Silver Riff
18. Enei - Axis
19. Kasra - Waterfall x
20. Lavance - Renegade
21. Enei - Runaway With You
22. Lavance - Hollow
23. Kasra and Chimpo - Outta Control
24. Lavance - Hitbox
25. Enei - Nobody Else
26. Enei, Kasra, YAANO and VISLA - Roadblock VIP
27. Enei - Breathing
28. QZB - Just Like
29. Calyx - Gully
30. En:vy - Stan It
31. Enei and En:vy - Death Sprint
32. Fade Black - Metal Heart
33. Enei - Black Bear
34. Waeys - Arrivata
35. Enei and En:vy - Badboi 
36. Kasra and Enei - Sonic Energy
37. Enei - Checks Up
38. En:vy - Damaio
39. QZB - Haste
40. VISLA - Ultraviolence
41. Enei and En:vy -  Elixir
42. Enei - Answers
43. Simula - Count 10
44. Enei, Kasra, YAANO and VISLA - Transmitter (En:vy Remix)
45. QZB - That's Basically It
46. Kasra and Enei - Plan
47. SMG, PVC - Lang
48. QZB - Can't Resist
49. VISLA - Engage!
50. Waeys - Dredge
51. Calyx - Repercussion
52. En:vy - Admire
53. Kasra and Chimpo - Funktional
54. Enei - Cartier
55. QZB - Satellite
56. Enei and En:vy - Hard Ship
57. Skantia - Foreshadow
58. Enei - Set It Off (No Surrender)
59. Kasra - Hydrogen
60. QZB - Out For Blood
61. Enei - Meesage
62. Skantia - 3rd Kit
63. VISLA - Uhwork
64. QZB - Downforce
65. SMG - Cloaked
66. SMG, PVC - Draw The Line
67. VISLA - Everytimeuluv
68. Break and SOLAH - Raise Your Hands
69. En:vy - Red Hot Fight VIP
70. Lavance - Side Eye
71. SMG - Suku

Please like, share, follow, comment & check out Critical Music's incredible catalogue.

Amen Brothers & Sisters

Q P Jesus - Focus On: Critical Music 2025 - Drum And Bass Mix

Too many good drum & bass tunes released this month so I put together volume 43 of REWIND and included some classics in the mix as well - enjoy!

San Holo - Always On My Mind (feat. James Vincent McMorrow & Yvette Young) (Halogenix Edit) - Self-Released
DJ Marky - Star Trippin' - Innerground Records
T>I - Anti Lag - Critical Music
Mystic State - AGK - Flexout Audio
Molecular - One Dub - 1985 Music
Minor Forms, Kublai - Super Chaos - Sofa Sound
Levela - Blowfish - LVL
Telm & Wilson - Droplet - Phase Records DNB
L-Side - Vibes Dem - V Recordings
>>>DJ Die - Play It For Me - V Recordings
Boston - For Grace - Symmetry Recordings
Seba, Paradox - Move On - Hospital Records
Krome & Time - Ganja Man (S.P.Y. & Total Science Remix) - Streetlife
Voltage - Barbera 2026 - Low Down Deep
Disrupta - Inside The Rider (TC & Original Sin 2000's Remix) - Crucast
Total Science - Defcom 69 - Metalheadz Platinum
Crystal Clear - Overlook (feat. Riya) - V Recordings
Brain, Speaker Louis - Riot Funk - Yamatai Records
HLZ - Cyclops - Rebel Music
Re:growth - Mover - Transparent Audio
Yannons - Culture - Love For Low Frequencies
Teej, Umbra - Take You Away (feat. Ellis Esco) - Sofa Sound
L-Side - No Stress - V Recordings
Minor Forms, Kublai - Warp Speed - Sofa Sound
Calyx - Are You Ready? (Hive & Gridlok Remix) - Moving Shadow
Lavance - First Contact - Overview Music
Re:growth - Untitled Analog - Transparent Audio
Kasra - hydrogen - Critical Music
HLZ - Agent Zero - Rebel Music
Clipz - Transition - Self-Released
GIVĒON - Favourite Mistake (Halogenix Edit) - Self-Released

REWIND: DRUM & BASS SESSIONS VOL. 43

Stream / Buy / Limited Edition Vinyl → https://found.ee/Axiom_Intuition
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Simula teams up with Kasra on for a two track release with ‘Axiom' and ‘Intuition’, fusing Simula’s modern take on minimal jump up with Kasra’s signature approach to production.

Available to stream, download and a limited edition 10" solid white, lathe cut vinyl → https://found.ee/Axiom_Intuition

Simula:
https://soundcloud.com/simula
https://www.instagram.com/simulauk/

Kasra:
https://soundcloud.com/kasra-critical
https://www.instagram.com/kasracritical/

Axiom / Intuition

Stream / Buy 

Simula & Kasra - Axiom

Stream / Vinyl

Simula & Kasra - Intuition

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Three years deep into his Critical Music tenure, VISLA opens 2026 in typically emphatic style, launching the first in a series of singles for one of drum & bass’s longest-running labels.

Linking up with Bristol-based duo circumference, the hotly anticipated ‘Hello Goodbye’ showcases everything VISLA does so well; an irresistibly tense, stepping groove locked beneath a rasping, roaring bassline that stretches and shifts with malevolent intent.

VISLA goes solo on ‘Stab Tool’, setting his formidable sound-design skills loose an ear-testing rinseout that twists and turns onwards, before the devilish drumwork of the final drop delivers the knockout blow.

Stream / Buy

VISLA & Circumference - Hello Goodbye

VISLA - Stab Tool

Part 2 of my livestream from 2.25.26. Recorded live on Twitch@ twitch.tv/noxdnb

Particle - Business Techno (InsideInfo Remix)
Ikiryo - Blood Kanji
Ephyum - Holy Pole 
Myselor - Discovery
Maddy V - PTSD (Glitch City Remix)
Revan, Primitive Instinct - The Vault 
Yaano, Rueben, Ground - Geiser
Xtrah, EBSA - Da System (Something Strange)
Brook - Bark VIP
Visla - Rattlesnake
Ephyum - Shrine
MVRK - Featherweight
Zombie Cats - Dream Tech
RMS - Botched
Snack - Hydrostatic
Subtension - Tween Wave (Matens Remix)
Division - Monastery
Evolved - Do You
Teej - Silencio (Northern Road Remix)
Extraction, Jestah - Covert
Forum feat. Lameduza - Mesmerize
Hightech - You-Me
Monrroe - Echo Habit
Yaanons - Real Place
Snapback - Feel Me
GZY - That Funk
DKN - Had Enough
Gui - MK2 
K A G E - Search History
EN:VY, SMG - AF! 
QZB - Riot Gear Romance
Gifta - Lose Yourself
Submarine - Back Then
Marvellous Cain, DJ Choppah - Nod Ya Head
DJ Hybrid - Dutty 
Theoretical - How We Roll 
The Sauce - Drippy Fresh (Genic Remix)
Posij - Blood
L-Side feat. MC GQ - Deep In The Trenches
Harley D, DJ Zent - Mudflood
Dub Elements - Tonite
Grinder - Away VIP
Enei - Want It
Diagnostix - Run For Cover
Average - Storm
QBZ & Visla - Streetwise
Defatted - Head Shaking
High Contrast - Make It Tonight VIP
DKN - Eraser
Spektiv - Vox Chain
Millbrook - Rituals VIP
Harley D - Checkone
Gifta - Gang Tactics
Failover - Stand Tall
Signs - Obsession
L-Side - Vibes Dem
Monyu - Trinocular
KM 27 - Loose
Jamezy - Hit The Floor
C-DU - Double Agent
Sam Binga feat. Rider Shafique, Magugu - Get Down Low (EN:VY Remix)
Higrade - Gangsta 4 Life 
The Upbeats - We Don't Lie
Wood Packa - Shake Ya Waist
M:FX, Iamdoomed - Dutty Dogs
Gifta & Ominous - Keep It Tuned VIP
Felix Raymon - Optics
Enei - Acid Shot
Blix - MMS
Anais feat. Levi - Tekkers
Emperor - Pranged Out
Andy C, Shimon - Night Flight (Shimon Remix)
Brook - Do Me A Fava
So-Low - Jungle Law
Potential Badboy, Uncle Nuts - Wa Dadda Deng
AZO - Manta 
Rift - Sinners 
Alibi - Greed
Jamezy feat. Sweetie Irie - Badman Step
Chase & Status feat. Avo & Horrid1 - On The Block
Diagnostix - Cooked
Omen - Move
Survival - Up In The Dance
Levela, Trex - Obey
Operate feat. MadRush MC - One By One (Visla Remix)
Phace, RUINNA - Apple Driver
Soltra - Purgatory
ASHFLO - One By One
The Upbeats - Octo
Break - Headshot (Alibi Remix)
Dillinja - Hard Noize (Break Remix)
Electron-C - 3 Kilos
Hyn - Yeah
Friction feat. Stylo G - Bring It Back (Tantrum Desire Remix)
Icicle - Nostalgia
Klippee - Reset
Liveon - Funker
Stay-C - Dope Business
The Upbeats, Halogenix - Earache
Minimalist - A'mahero
Teddy Killerz - Hype
John B feat. Lameduza - Ventil-8 (VIP)
Ink, BTK - Cold Flow
Gifta - The Captain
Amber Mark - Way  Back (Metal Work Bootleg)
I Wannabe, Forgiven Soul - No Other Way
Noisia - Incessant (IMANU Remix)
Metrik feat. Rothwell - We Got It (S.P.Y Remix)
Rizzle - Neck Oil
TENS - WTF
Xsetra - Amok (Rue (UK) Remix)
Agro - Hold It Up
Mila Falls, Sota, Circadian - Mesmer
Mythic Image - Like This
Yen - Dustup
Acid Purr - Money Talks
Calyx - Pull Up
Dubsluts - Bricks and Mortar



2-25-26 - Deep/Minimal/Rollers/Jungle - 4 Channels - Live Recording

Stream / Download → https://found.ee/Alert_VIP
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Austrian producer En:vy steps back from his usual drum & bass territory for a high-voltage VIP of his 140bpm monster ‘Alert’ for Critical Music.

‘Alert VIP’ twists the mangled funk of the original even harder around neat drum edits and a scattering of smart samples, with an endlessly oscillating bassline that harks back to the golden era of the original south London dubstep sound.

En:vy online:
https://www.instagram.com/envy.music_/
https://soundcloud.com/envydnb
https://www.tiktok.com/@envy.music_


En:vy - Alert VIP

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Taste. 
CLUB S**T
Resident DJ at Blind Barber, Chicago
Subtle 2nd Tuesdays 7-8 PM CST
For booking and inquiries: soundarkitek@gmail.com
For full DJ schedule: soundtek.chi on IG

A/R at NeuroPlague Music

DJ'ing since March 2022
Drum and Bass nerd 24/7
I just want to make people smile and play tunes I love.  I hope they bring you even an ounce of the joy they bring me.  Live at Twitch.tv/noxdnb every Monday and Wednesday at 6pm Eastern US, so come through and say hello!

Contact: noxdnb17@gmail.com

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Drum & Bass Curator, Selector & Storyteller

Q P Jesus is a London-based DnB connoisseur with a deep passion for the soulful, the timeless & the powerful. Through carefully crafted mix journeys, he explores the roots, evolution & emotional core of the genre, from the liquid warmth of labels like Soul:r to the textured depth of The North Quarter, & from homage to icons such as Calibre & Lenzman to the harder, darker drive of Critical Music.

Each mix is more than a set, it’s a narrative. Whether it’s a History of Soul:r mix that honours the legacy of Marcus Intalex & the label’s impact on liquid drum & bass, a tribute to the legends of the scene, or a deep dive into a year, or catalogue, of powerful releases from forward-thinking labels & Producers, Q P Jesus blends emotion, technical skill & head-nodding drive into every selection.

Rooted in respect for the culture but unafraid to push listeners through peaks, textures & transitions that reward attention, his mixes are made for headphones & sound systems alike, a space where groove meets depth, impact meets feeling, & every journey tells a story.

Follow him for explorations of drum & bass in all its forms, soulful, liquid, weighty & visceral, with a perspective that honours the past & looks to the future.

For booking enquiries please message via Soundcloud or Instagram (link below).

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