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Out Now:Technique Summer 2016 Album
Full tracklist & info: bit.ly/Summer2016News
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All Stores Technique.lnk.to/Summer2016
Technique Store bit.ly/Tech2016LP


Technique’s annual summer compilation has become one of the highlights of the label’s release schedule and this year’s edition is no exception.

Technique Summer 2016 features 37 tracks from across the drum & bass spectrum hand picked by Drumsound & Bassline Smith.

The label bosses themselves roll through with the fluid jungle of the Solah-laced “Cover Our Eyes”, the no-holds-barred funk of “Rise of the Black Panther” and their epic dubwise collaboration with Digital, “First World Problem”.

And then there are the big name cameos from artists not normally seen under the Technique banner. Brookes Brothers and Danny Byrd team up with the uplifting drive of “Climb High”, matched in hands-in-the-air power by the euphoric piano of The Prototypes’ “Don’t Let Me Go”. J Majik recruits 78° and Louie Cabrera for “Day I Left” and “Elastic” respectively. And the mighty DJ SS drops an emotively claustrophobic killer in the form of “Expression”.

Of course, the regular regiment of Technique soldiers are present and correct too. Tantrum Desire delivers the tech atmospherics of “Tesoro”, while Kronology subverts the big-room sound with the unpredictable twists and turns of “Everyday”. L Plus backs up rumbling bass and popping beats with entwined chord patterns in “Invincible”. Plus Document One show two different sides to their character, with the jazz funk vibe of “Klaxon” and the paranoid sci-fi of “Say What”.

And we’re nowhere near covering everything this album has to offer. From the jungle tear-out of Brian Brainstorm’s “Badman Selector” to the minimal magic of Oder’s “Mesmerize”, via the liquid purity of Salaryman’s “He Knows”, this is a journey that needs to be experienced. Any selection that takes you straight from Fade’s “Disco Ball” into Conspire’s “Glare of Brass” then to Salaryman’s “Synthesized Melancholia” is making a statement about the strength in depth of the D&B genre right now.

If all that wasn’t enough, all the tracks are featured on two continuous mixes by Kronology.

The first album sampler features Drumsound & Bassline Smith’s “Rise of the Black Panther” and is available now exclusively in the Beatport store and from the Technique shop from June 10. The second sampler includes Document One’s Klaxon and you can get your hands on in from June 24 in the Technique shop. The full album is released on 1 July but you can pre-order it now on iTunes and all other stores.


J Majik & 78 Degrees - Day I Left [Friction Premiere]

Our latest exclusive comes courtesy of Swiss powerhouse Demand Records! Taken from the second volume of their rather tasty 'Requisites' EP series, Bulgarian producer Robustus serves up a wicked roller combining melancholy piano leads with rolling breaks and just enough grit in the bassline for that sweet spot of edge and soul. 'Requisites #2' is out on Friday; hit up the Demand Store to grab a copy on vinyl and keep your eyes on the usual digital outlets for the virtual copy. 

Buy → demandrecords.databeats.com/vinyl/req002

Robustus:
Facebook → facebook.com/robustus.fanpage
SoundCloud → soundcloud.com/robustus
Twitter → twitter.com/robustusdnb

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SoundCloud → soundcloud.com/demandrecords
Twitter → twitter.com/demandrecords

Robustus - NYC [Premiere]

Out Now Technique.lnk.to/Summer2017so
51 Tracks & 2 Continuous Mixes By DJ Muffler
Released Friday 2nd June 2017

Living in the UK, you quickly learn that you can't trust the weather to indicate the arrival of summer. For DnB heads, though, there's a far more reliable signal to gear up for festival and holiday season. And now it's here. Yes, Technique's Summer 2017 LP has dropped, and it's done so with Richter-troubling force.

For a start off, it's a monumental fifty-one tracks deep (with two continuous mixes from Muffler thrown in for good measure) featuring contributions from all corners of the drum 'n' bass scene. For example, Viper bosses Matrix & Futurebound pass through, with the insane 8-bit video game riffs of “Scatterbrain”. Brookes Brothers deliver the stripped-back R&B-flavoured “Good to Me”. Invaderz underpin jazz keys with rolling beats in “Gruisin”. And, who would have predicted the appearance of two cuts from the mighty Aquasky?

Plus, of course, the regular Technique roster are out in force. New signings T-Phonic & Deadman give us an instant-classic junglist workout, complete with thundering breaks and savage Reese bass. We've got MaxNRG doing crazy things to melodies in “Soul Fever”, two pieces from Document One, Tantrum Desire's “Gravitate”, L Plus's dancefloor bubbler “Going Away”, tracks from Spectrem...and that's before we even get onto the contributions from label bosses Drumsound & Bassline Smith themselves.

This album covers the full spectrum and then twists the dial a few notches more.

It might say Summer on the cover, but this is far more than a collection of festival tunes. From shadow to sunlight, Drumsound & Bassline Smith have curated a collection that displays the full gamut of what DnB has to offer in 2017. Just dive in, they're about to take you on a journey.

1. Drumsound & Bassline Smith – Take a Chance 
2. Brookes Brothers – Good to Me 
3. Fliwo – Run Away 
4. Muffler – Snowflakes 
5. Tantrum Desire – Gravitate 
6. Salaryman – Roller Forever 
7. Kronology – Star in a Jar 
8. Tapolsky & VovKING –88
9. T:Base – Through the Night 
10. L Plus – Going Away 
11. Matrix & Futurebound – Scatterbrain 
12. Revaux & Subdivision – Everything (feat. MC Subliminal) 
13. Tweakz & Emtee – Tell Me 
14. Javano – United As One 
15. Aquasky – Your Love
16. Document One – Same You 
17. MaxNRG – Soul Fever 
18. Tapolsky & VovKING – Needle 
19. Drumsound & Bassline Smith – Holdin On 
20. Casey Jones – False Truths 
21. Invaderz – Gruisin 
22. Murdock – Arrival 
23. Zen Dub & Vision – Frozen 
24. Schematic – Have You Ever Wondered 25. Spectrem – Distance 
26. NC-17 x Des McMahon – Dubminded 
27. Genzo – Wait No More (feat. Pat Heym) 
28. Ill Truth & Defex – Too Late 
29. AudioSketch & Surplus – Not Again (feat. Critical Event) 
30. Document One –Uh-Huh 
31. Salaryman – Live a Better Life 
32. Oder – Points of View 
33. Danny Wheeler – Walking Away (feat. Kemi Ade) 
34. Stereotype – Mile High Club 
35. Schematic & Polaris – So Long 
36. Zen Dub – Dawning 
37. Akomplis & Atomik Tags – Reminisce 
38. Spectrem – Luxury 
39. Conspire – Pending 
40. T-Phonic & Deadman – The Sound of Now 
41. Tapolsky & VovKING – Primitive Jazz 
42. Dan Guidance – I Dream of You 
43. Stereotype – Got it Twisted 
44. SKMA – Forever 
45. Aquasky – I Like the Way (You're Doin It) 
46. Schematic & Hungry T – Lay You Down (feat. Grimm) 
47. Conspire – Whirlwind 
48. Brian Brainstorm – The Trophy 
49. Living Plastic – She 
50. War Machine – Detector 
51. Consouls – Flares

For interview requests and more information, contact:

info@techniquerecordings.co.uk

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Fliwo - Run Away

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Taken from BCee's second long player, 'Lost & Found' - Released on Aug 25th 2013.

BCee - Speak To The Sky - Mastered

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