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Best in 2019

Every summer since 2016, Technique Recordings have been bringing us an epically ambitious album project, combining multiple flavours and sub-genres of drum 'n' bass into a perfect soundtrack for the season. And, just glancing down the tracklisting of 2019's instalment, with its blend of battle-hardened veterans and next-to-blow new generation artists, it's clear that we're in for yet another DnB heatwave from Drumsound & Bassline Smith's label.

For one thing, there's the strength in depth. Scene originators like Aquasky and Ellis Dee, the latter making a victorious return to drum 'n' bass after taking some time away, rub shoulders with newcomers like Technique Music Academy student Delphi. Technique regulars like Tantrum Desire and L Plus line up alongside label debutants like Chrizz0r, Mindloader, and MIAVO.

And then there's the music itself. We've already heard the glorious single “Forever” by Smooth, and that beautiful essence of musicality runs through the LP. Tapolsky & VovKING deliver their typically twisted take on summer melodies, we've got atmospheric euphoria from Muffler, and there's the dark-tinged jazz vibe of Gradual's team-up with Deuce & Charger.

But there's more. A Technique Summer album isn't just music for chilling with, it captures those high-energy festival and all-day rave moments too. Tracks like Drumsound & Bassline Smith's “Time to Let Go”, Zeal & Exile's “Seeing Shapes”, and NC-17's “True Grit” add a touch of toughness to the sunlit sounds. Tracks from this album are going to find a place in sets everywhere.

In years to come, this just might just be seen as an era-defining compilation. Undisputed legends sharing a tracklisting with some of the most promising up-and-comers in the scene right now, to deliver a multi-dimensional summer drum 'n' bass experience. Across thirty-eight tracks, there's a whole treasure trove of DnB to discover right here.

Own It Now

Technique Summer 2019

New & hot: Drum & Bass

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Ian Carey Project - Shot Caller (Matrix and Futurebound remix)

Check out my new remix of 'Embrace' by Goldroom﻿
/freedownload/:  http://tiny.pl/qm94s (Extended Mix)

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Support by: Pendulum, Camo & Krooked, Danny Byrd, TC, Friction, Brookes Brothers, Fred V & Grafix, Dexcell, Drumsound & Bassline Smith, Smooth, Feint, Metrik and many more!

Maduk - Kings & Queens [Out Now!]

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Xian - Feel (Boxplot Remix) [FREE DL]

Solo Dancing

Feint - My Sunset (Original Mix)

Trainwreck 1979

John Newman - Love Me Again (Skilla DnB Remix)

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TwoThirds & Feint - Epiphany (feat. Veela) [CLIP] [OUT NOW!]

The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So

DC Breaks - Breathe Feat. Dave Gibson

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Release Dates:
- Beatport exclusive: 8th April 2016
- General & Vinyl: 22nd April 2016

The sanctity of the rave has been broken - an ill form of audio has infiltrated the dance, sliding seductively across eardrums and spilling down spines to deliver a vision of a future saturated by fear. The DYSTOPIA EP has landed, delivered by Russian trio GYDRA and set to compel restless kinetic nights under its foreboding and sinister influence.

Title track DYSTOPIA sets an unnerving tone with an epic cinematic opening full of dark awe, before delivering a crushing amen barrage. Despite the overwhelming strength of the overlords,
INSURRECTION delivers a powerful gut-punch to the system, the product of the illusive plans of the SECRET SOCIETY skulking into the dance with heads down and emitting enticing pulsations.
The gates of the MEGAPOLIS will fall in the face of the uprising and the pure might of their low frequency weapons, making way for A NEW DAWN of hope, built on firm neurofunk foundations.

BAD TASTE RECORDINGS are on a run of pure fire in 2016, so far having delivered hard-hitting and already acclaimed releases from rising entities Malux and Agressor Bunx.
With their 3rd release of the year, they issue a vision of the future with undeniable intent – the site of this revolution won’t be quickly forgotten.

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Dystopia

Megapolis

Gydra - Megapolis

Our 28th free download is available now courtesy of longtime label favourite Underspawn, a track he completed some years ago and we just felt it was criminal for it to sit in the vaults, pure dirt this one, enjoy

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Underspawn - The Chase [TESRECFRD028] FREE DL

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Chris Lake - I Want You (1991 Remix)

Out now on Liquicity Records!! Available on Beatport, iTunes and all the other online stores:)

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Tony Colman (London Elektricity) - "Very Nice. Hospital Podcast material"
Neonlight - "Real Liquid!"
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Smooth - "Good lovin is THE one!"
Chris Muniz (KMAG) - "Huge set of tunes for the liquid crew! I'm really feeling the Maduk remix perfect summertime vibes."
Futurebound - "A guy everyone needs to keep an eye on!"
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Maduk - Take You There

This remix is the grand prize winner! Thanks everyone who supported and voted! Will be released on Viper Recordings, 19-08-2012!:)

My entry for the remix contest by Matrix & Futurebound on Beatport! 

http://play.beatport.com/contests/matrix-and-futurebound-all-i-know-feat-luke-bingham/4fe8d1d0753a0d4107000363

Matrix & Futurebound - All I Know (Maduk Remix) [Grand Prize Winner!]

Own It Now: technique.lnk.to/Forever

Now a fixture of the DnB calendar, the Technique Summer album has been lighting up the scene with its combination of freshly-discovered talent and certified vets since its 2016 debut. In 2018, one of the biggest tunes from the LP was Smooth's “All Over the World”, which got heavy rotation on Radio 1 and 1Xtra, as well as in raves everywhere. So, it makes sense that our first taste of Technique Summer 2019 comes, once again, from man like Smooth.

“Forever” opens with a pure dose of euphoria. Loose, live-sounding drums, match with uplifting keys and pitch-shifted vocals to combine elements of the old skool with flavours of anthemic dancefloor liquid.

As the tune builds and drops, Smooth flexes his junglist's instinct for break programming, with layers of percussion melding and morphing over warm, enveloping bass tones. Simultaneously high-impact and melodically mellow, this is the definition of summertime drum 'n' bass.

But that's not all. You're going to want to let this one run. There's a beautifully constructed breakdown made of little flecks of vocal and chords that subtly shimmer and build back towards the energy-release of the second drop. Vibes guaranteed.

So, looks like Smooth's done it again. He's delivered another Technique Summer classic but, let's not forget, this is just the first sampler from the album project. Every year there are surprises, new artists to discover, and new music from old favourites. The standard has been set, and now we can't wait to check what the full album has to offer.

Forever

Smooth - Forever (Technique Summer 2019)

We are pleased to introduce you 'GIANT VIP' by State Of Mind premiered over at @renelavice's BBC Radio 1 show!

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Taking a step back, the inventor looked upon his creation with a mixture of pride and awe. Above him towered a clockwork golem with blood of fire and skin of steel, a protector of that which he had ordained worthy of protection. It’s profile displayed the raw strength of the forges from which it had been wrought, actualized by the servos and motors which drove its mighty body forwards in lumbering motion. Atop its head roared a constant blaze, its uncontainable life energy surging forth from any available outlet in a ferocious display of raw vitality. In a contemplative moment, the inventor then looked upon himself, diminutive and weak by comparison to the champion he had created. He thought of its purpose, shedding a momentary tear for those like him who might fall under its wrathful gaze, but then shook his head with renewed resolve. “It must be done” he said to himself, “They have not the STATE OF MIND necessary to rule this world”. Turning his eyes back to the golem, the inventor set his titanic creation forth on its grim path with naught but a single nod.

With a bellowing roar of the blaze within its skull, the golem emerged from the forest of its creation in a moment of stark contrast as it began to take its creators vengeance upon the city that lay before it. It was itself a city of steel and flame, which tore relentlessly at the lands around it in an exploitative & all consuming hunger. Jets of flame shot forth from the golem’s maw as it tread upon the inferior structures beneath it, reducing that built of this hunger to the component parts it so wantonly consumed. As it stood within the inferno, the golem itself began to feel its own gnashing teeth, the heat of the flames slowly stripping its steel skin to the bone. With a final titanic roar the golem reached a point of criticality, exploding in a massive gout of flame and molten shrapnel which leveled all that remained of what had once been the great city. Watching from high within the forest, the inventor nodded his head in a farewell to his creation, assured by it’s ultimate cry that this land was safe once again from those who would do it harm.


STATE OF MIND returns to EATBRAIN with four reimaginings of their past tracks by themselves and others within the harder side of Drum & Bass. Receiving a flip by Italian neurofunk trio IHR is the notorious collab with label boss Jade 'HIGHLANDER', which features the addition of a motive & fluid reece bassline atop the track’s already driving drumbeat for a dancefloor devastating sonic combination. STATE OF MIND themselves present a VIP of GIANT, which smashes forth on massive drums accentuated by simultaneous bass stabs in a titanic sprint beneath detuned tonal sprites. BYPASS is remixed by MOB TACTICS, whom bypass nothing as they push the track into overdrive in a flurry of furious basses, frenetic arpeggios and brief moments of levity provided by snippets of vocals. Closing the EP is the SYNERGY remix of TIME SLIP FT. KRYPTOMEDIC, which rides the MC’s narration upwards in an ever intensifying crescendo towards a distorted realm of metallic basses that rocket out above their electrified companions and an unstoppable drumbeat. In all, the STATE OF MIND REMIXES morph some of the prolific duo’s most powerful track on EATBRAIN into monstrous new forms, setting them up for further dominance on future dancefloors.

State Of Mind Remixed

State Of Mind - GIANT VIP (Rene La Vice BBC Radio 1 Premiere)

Own It Now: technique.lnk.to/Summer2019

Every summer since 2016, Technique Recordings have been bringing us an epically ambitious album project, combining multiple flavours and sub-genres of drum 'n' bass into a perfect soundtrack for the season. And, just glancing down the tracklisting of 2019's instalment, with its blend of battle-hardened veterans and next-to-blow new generation artists, it's clear that we're in for yet another DnB heatwave from Drumsound & Bassline Smith's label.

For one thing, there's the strength in depth. Scene originators like Aquasky and Ellis Dee, the latter making a victorious return to drum 'n' bass after taking some time away, rub shoulders with newcomers like Technique Music Academy student Delphi. Technique regulars like Tantrum Desire and L Plus line up alongside label debutants like Chrizz0r, Mindloader, and MIAVO.

And then there's the music itself. We've already heard the glorious single “Forever” by Smooth, and that beautiful essence of musicality runs through the LP. Tapolsky & VovKING deliver their typically twisted take on summer melodies, we've got atmospheric euphoria from Muffler, and there's the dark-tinged jazz vibe of Gradual's team-up with Deuce & Charger.

But there's more. A Technique Summer album isn't just music for chilling with, it captures those high-energy festival and all-day rave moments too. Tracks like Drumsound & Bassline Smith's “Time to Let Go”, Zeal & Exile's “Seeing Shapes”, and NC-17's “True Grit” add a touch of toughness to the sunlit sounds. Tracks from this album are going to find a place in sets everywhere.

In years to come, this just might just be seen as an era-defining compilation. Undisputed legends sharing a tracklisting with some of the most promising up-and-comers in the scene right now, to deliver a multi-dimensional summer drum 'n' bass experience. Across thirty-eight tracks, there's a whole treasure trove of DnB to discover right here.

Delphi - Gold (Technique Summer 2019)

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Taking a step back, the inventor looked upon his creation with a mixture of pride and awe. Above him towered a clockwork golem with blood of fire and skin of steel, a protector of that which he had ordained worthy of protection. It’s profile displayed the raw strength of the forges from which it had been wrought, actualized by the servos and motors which drove its mighty body forwards in lumbering motion. Atop its head roared a constant blaze, its uncontainable life energy surging forth from any available outlet in a ferocious display of raw vitality. In a contemplative moment, the inventor then looked upon himself, diminutive and weak by comparison to the champion he had created. He thought of its purpose, shedding a momentary tear for those like him who might fall under its wrathful gaze, but then shook his head with renewed resolve. “It must be done” he said to himself, “They have not the STATE OF MIND necessary to rule this world”. Turning his eyes back to the golem, the inventor set his titanic creation forth on its grim path with naught but a single nod.

With a bellowing roar of the blaze within its skull, the golem emerged from the forest of its creation in a moment of stark contrast as it began to take its creators vengeance upon the city that lay before it. It was itself a city of steel and flame, which tore relentlessly at the lands around it in an exploitative & all consuming hunger. Jets of flame shot forth from the golem’s maw as it tread upon the inferior structures beneath it, reducing that built of this hunger to the component parts it so wantonly consumed. As it stood within the inferno, the golem itself began to feel its own gnashing teeth, the heat of the flames slowly stripping its steel skin to the bone. With a final titanic roar the golem reached a point of criticality, exploding in a massive gout of flame and molten shrapnel which leveled all that remained of what had once been the great city. Watching from high within the forest, the inventor nodded his head in a farewell to his creation, assured by it’s ultimate cry that this land was safe once again from those who would do it harm.


STATE OF MIND returns to EATBRAIN with four reimaginings of their past tracks by themselves and others within the harder side of Drum & Bass. Receiving a flip by Italian neurofunk trio IHR is the notorious collab with label boss Jade 'HIGHLANDER', which features the addition of a motive & fluid reece bassline atop the track’s already driving drumbeat for a dancefloor devastating sonic combination. STATE OF MIND themselves present a VIP of GIANT, which smashes forth on massive drums accentuated by simultaneous bass stabs in a titanic sprint beneath detuned tonal sprites. BYPASS is remixed by MOB TACTICS, whom bypass nothing as they push the track into overdrive in a flurry of furious basses, frenetic arpeggios and brief moments of levity provided by snippets of vocals. Closing the EP is the SYNERGY remix of TIME SLIP FT. KRYPTOMEDIC, which rides the MC’s narration upwards in an ever intensifying crescendo towards a distorted realm of metallic basses that rocket out above their electrified companions and an unstoppable drumbeat. In all, the STATE OF MIND REMIXES morph some of the prolific duo’s most powerful track on EATBRAIN into monstrous new forms, setting them up for further dominance on future dancefloors.

Jade & State Of Mind - Highlander (IHR Remix) (Eatbrain083)

NRPNK002 Receptor vs. Gydra
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Gydra ft. Messy MC - Manifest (cut)

Noisia Radio this week: Additional Posij in the shape of ‘Chasing’ and more music taken from Solids_3, this time by ChaseR, out now on our imprints. Buunshin is our weekly Noisia Radio Reload, voted in by our Patreon supporters. #Airhorns

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Posij - Chasing [DIVISION]
ChaseR - Kernal Panic [INVISIBLE]
Waeys - Pressure (Skantia Remix) [OVERVIEW]
Kasra - Cold Wave [CRITICAL]
Alix Perez - Deep Six [1985]
Workforce - Setting Traps [MUST MAKE]
Disprove - Stratos [METHLAB]
Talkre - Skynet [DISPATCH]
Eazy Baked - Headspace [BASSRUSH]
Septal - Holdfield [CITRUS]
Volatile Cycle & Kyrist - Rolex (Creatures Remix) [LIFESTYLE]
Phace & Noisia - Micro Organism (Buunshin Remix) [NEOSIGNAL] [NOISIA RADIO RELOAD]
Thook - Bags [DOME OF DOOM]
Bassment - No Light [DUB]
Jayline - Ango Saxxon [LIONDUB] 
Nausika - Buried Within [BARE BONES]
Mr Carmack - Ay Chico W Tommy [FORWARD THINKERS GROUP]
Prolix & Black Sun Empire - Savages Ft. Virus Syndicate [BLACKOUT]
Fascad - Wong [LISTENER SUBMISSION]
Paige Julia - Thesselate [SOUNDCLOUD]
HumaNature - Upside Down (Zero T Remix) [ATMOMATIX]
Mefjus - Far Too Close [NEODIGITAL]
Christoph De Babalon - Harakiri [BANDCAMP]

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Gridlok - Opera			
Maztek - Ultrafunkular	
IHR - Ceres (AKOV Remix) 	
Culprate - Beat Down			
State Of Mind - Giant VIP				
AKOV - Hot Flush	
Hybris - Garbage Truck (Misanthrop Remix)	
AKOV - U Want It  Feat. Urso & MC Multiplex 	
Audio - Headroom VIP	
MBeat, General Levy, Misanthrop - Incredible Deadlock Mashup		
Icicle, Mefjus - Efficient 
AKOV - Growing Pains
Gydra, Receptor - Keep On
Shyun, Cruk - Wreckage
Teddy Killerz - Reptile		
Gydra - No Kidding				
AKOV - No More (DUBPLATE)				
Culprate - Dawn 		
AKOV - Abraxas		
Smooth - Eraser 	
AKOV - Symbiosis	
Signs - Warthog 	
Optiv & BTK - Shredder (IHR Remix)		
Drumsound & Bassline Smith - The Truth 	
AKOV & The Clamps - Games With God				
Gydra - Trojan				
AKOV - The Initiation		
Mefjus - Sinkhole
AKOV - Blind (Moon Mix) 	
IHR - Them				
AKOV - Space Bears		
A.M.C & TURNO - Icecold VIP				
Divide & Conquer - What So Not (Noisia Remix)	
Monuman - Sasquatch 			
Pendulum - Tarantula Feat. Mc Spyda & Dj Fresh (AKOV Bootleg Remix)	
Kursa - Unknow						
Mean Teeth -  Dust To Dust						
Fa11out, Optiv & CZA - Bleed Like Us	
The Upbeats - Alone feat. Tasha Baxter (Fourward Remix)	
Mefjus - Sizzle Fizzle (Manifest)	
The Upbeats - Joyrider (Agressor Bunx Remix)	
Misanthrop - Blurred (Original Mix)					
Mean Teeth - Leviathan (Mean Teeth Remix)				
Pendulum - Hold Your Colour (Noisia Remix)		
Inward,Hanzo&Randie ft. Merikan - Delta Invariant (Maztek Remix)		
Merikan	- Compulsive Behaviour			
AKOV - Full Control				
Inward,Hanzo&Randie- Bloom (Gydra Remix)				
AKOV - Talk To Me 	
Culprate - Fester			
DC Breaks - Gambino (InsideInfo Remix)	
AKOV-  Full Circle		
Gydra,Fatloaf - Sphere				
Chase & Status, Irah - Program (Original Mix)		
MeanTeeth - Blaze(Vowel.Remix)				
AKOV - HOSTILE HORIZONS (Dubplate)	
AKOV & DubApe - Wooly Mammoth		
Noisia, Teddykillerz - Shaking hands  (STEELAN MASHUP)	Steelan	
AKOV - Interstellar Feat. Multiplex

EATBRAIN Podcast 090 by Akov

Vosko & AudioSketch - Secrets (Technique Summer 2019)

Own It Now: technique.lnk.to/Summer 2019

Every summer since 2016, Technique Recordings have been bringing us an epically ambitious album project, combining multiple flavours and sub-genres of drum 'n' bass into a perfect soundtrack for the season. And, just glancing down the tracklisting of 2019's instalment, with its blend of battle-hardened veterans and next-to-blow new generation artists, it's clear that we're in for yet another DnB heatwave from Drumsound & Bassline Smith's label.

For one thing, there's the strength in depth. Scene originators like Aquasky and Ellis Dee, the latter making a victorious return to drum 'n' bass after taking some time away, rub shoulders with newcomers like Technique Music Academy student Delphi. Technique regulars like Tantrum Desire and L Plus line up alongside label debutants like Chrizz0r, Mindloader, and MIAVO.

And then there's the music itself. We've already heard the glorious single “Forever” by Smooth, and that beautiful essence of musicality runs through the LP. Tapolsky & VovKING deliver their typically twisted take on summer melodies, we've got atmospheric euphoria from Muffler, and there's the dark-tinged jazz vibe of Gradual's team-up with Deuce & Charger.

But there's more. A Technique Summer album isn't just music for chilling with, it captures those high-energy festival and all-day rave moments too. Tracks like Drumsound & Bassline Smith's “Time to Let Go”, Zeal & Exile's “Seeing Shapes”, and NC-17's “True Grit” add a touch of toughness to the sunlit sounds. Tracks from this album are going to find a place in sets everywhere.

In years to come, this just might just be seen as an era-defining compilation. Undisputed legends sharing a tracklisting with some of the most promising up-and-comers in the scene right now, to deliver a multi-dimensional summer drum 'n' bass experience. Across thirty-eight tracks, there's a whole treasure trove of DnB to discover right here.

Delphi - Gold (Technique Summer 2019)

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