D&B - Tech / Minimal / Dark / Neuro - part 5

Sticking to what we know best and thats big breaks and bass lines, shining a light on that classic drum and bass sound.

As always massive thank you to everyone supporting ! 

LTD lathe cut vinyl on clear or white plates

Ray Of Light

--Bandcamp (8/24) - http://ow.ly/QNeL5
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Translation Recordings journeys into the dungeon once again with the sinister, subterranean sounds of Bassment Beats Vol. 2. Up first, Red Army’s “Yergacheffe” kicks off with rising dub-wise stylistics and a surging bassline that ripples sonic energy across the soundscape. On “The Hippies”, Brat Leeks serves up a twisted cocktail of mechanized beats and FX mixed with psychedelic synths and wavy sub frequencies. Dyl and Paragon continue the journey to depths unknown with “Abraxas”, where eerie strings and cavernous drums build into a menacing doomsday stomper of a track that crushes everything in its path with bassweight. Cid Poitier delivers the final blow with “Ramping”, whose deceptively stripped-back intro sets up a leviathan drop guaranteed to test the limits of any sound system. Bassment Beats Vol. 2 faithfully carries the torch for the series, showcasing producers from across the globe that are on the leading edge of the darker, more experimental, side of the drum & bass spectrum.

Cid Poitier - Ramping

Tim Wright has been operating at the fringes of the electronic music scene since the early 90s. Narrowly avoiding a relationship with Warp Records by missing the train to Sheffield in 1992, he signed a multi-album contract with the disaster prone General Production Recordings as GERM in 1993. A flurry of critically acclaimed releases ensued before GPR collapsed and Tim’s career was halted while he struggled to wriggle free. Deep bass driven anarcho-house techno project Tube Jerk was to rise from the ashes of GERM. Albums for PIAS and Edinburgh’s Sativae Recordings ensued and as Tube Jerk, Tim performed live at clubs and festivals all over the world, but mainly in Germany. A remix of Cristian Vogel’s Whipaspank brought him to the attention of Mute Records who subsequently released his first material under his own name. 

He is currently writing film music for cult Russian horror director Andrey Iskanov and works as a composer with celebrated Japanese choreographer Saburo Teshigawara with major pieces recently performed by the Ballet de L’Opera de Paris and Gothenburg Opera Dance company.

Tim Wright
Twitter : @timgerm
Instagram : timgerm


Tim Wright - Can't Stop (Craig Richards Remix)

THE EGG - SYHDA MUSIC PODCAST 003

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The Egg

The Egg - Syhda Music Podcast 003

Terra Firma's first compilation, a collection of 6 fresh cuts, is ready to shake waves in the DnB scene.
Outer Mass return straight off the back of their acclaimed debut double-track release King / White Lies with 'Forge A Weapon', a vicious belter of a tune sending satisfactory shock waves down your spine. Next up Telomic provides us with the sublime 'Speculate'. The tight percussion and rolling basses equates in a standout liquid roller. Rising Dutch stars Low5 & Orbin collaborate on the dark and flowing neuro number 'The Basement'. The expert use of dynamics will keep you bouncing up and down throughout.

Vol 1

Low5 & Orbin - The Basement  [Terra Firma]

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Hugh Hardie’s smooth moving, funk and soul-spirited drum & bass has been making waves since he signed exclusively to leading D+B imprint Hospital Records in 2014. The Cambridge-born turned Bristol-living producer has been a busy man since his popular ‘City Soul’ EP. Now his growing repertoire is only getting bigger with his highly anticipated debut long player ‘ColourSpace’ that’s filled with liquid rollers, jazzy riffs, and feel-good flavours.

Staying true to that funk and soul delivery are tracks ‘Love Troubles’ and ‘She Moves’ – featuring up and comers GLXY – with rising drums and full-bodied basslines. Another collaborative effort comes from Shogun Audio signees Pola & Bryson in ‘Emerald City’ with sweetening doubled-up melodies and lush liquid roll-outs.

Diving into deeper D+B spaces, ‘Talk The Talk’ and ‘Closeness’ bring a cosmic energy to the mix. ‘Camera Obscura’ ft Maverick Soul highlights Hugh’s passion for percussions in parallel with ‘Shades Of Blue’ that touches on micro funk movements with clicky drums bringing a more minimalistic nature than Hugh’s regular rhythms.

For several years, Hugh has been making regular appearances across Europe and the UK for the world-renowned events brand Hospitality and is no stranger to lighting up packed dance-floors no matter the venue size. This summer you can catch him drawing from his collection at Glastonbury festival, Secret Garden Party and Sun & Bass, to name a few.

Hugh Hardie
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https://www.instagram.com/hughhardie/
https://twitter.com/HughHardieMusic

Hospital Records
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https://www.hospitalrecords.com/
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Colourspace

Camera Obscura (feat. Maverick Soul)

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Survival links with Break on future classic 'Catalyst', exclusive to the 'Take It Back' album sampler on Dispatch. Get it here: http://bit.ly/DISSULP001SDW

Survival:
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Survival - Catalyst (ft. Break)

Prototype

Fields of Vengeance (Original Mix)

Taken from CBR030 - Vromm- For The New Dawn - 3 Track EP

Forthcoming Cosmic Bridge...

Vromm - Stargazing (feat. Om Unit)

With the completion and release of Blocks & Escher’s debut album for Metalheadz, the duo turn their attention firmly back to their own label and kick off a stream of releases for 2018.  

Narratives is proud to present this single from one of Blocks & Escher favourite artists, SB81. Shaun Bateman aka SB81 has released on labels across the Drum and Bass scene, in most recent years on the Metalheadz camp and crowned an amazing 2017 with his remix of J Majiks seminal classic “ Your Sound”.

AA - SB81 - Who Are You - Narratives Music [013]

Cosmic Bridge Podcast series continues with Vromm

Vromm "For The New Dawn" out on 6th July 2018

Bandcamp >>> https://vromm.bandcamp.com/album/for-the-new-dawn

Tracklist
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1. ???
2. mako - Let the Truth be Heard
3. Kid Drama and Skeptical - Run Deep
4. Vromm feat. Om Unit - Stargazing
5. ???
6. Vromm - Restart
7. Oliver Yorke - Silver River
8. Om Unit - Ulysses Return
9. Blocks & Escher - Gulls
10. Concealed Identity - Third stone
11. Om Unit & Sam Binga - Never Been to Berghain
12. The Untouchables - Fibreglass
13. Vromm - Odisea
14. Vromm - ???
15. Lemna - Knot
16. @John Rolodex - Keep on Truckin (Morphy Remix)
17. Seba - External Reality (Om Unit Remix)
18. DBridge - I've Seen (Vromm Unofficial Remix)
19. Kid Drama - Whole train
20. Overlook and Mono - Ritual
21. Skeptical - Enjoy this Trip
22. ???
23. Vromm feat. Agama - For The New Dawn

For The New Dawn

CBR Podcast 03 // Vromm

Bass-driven rhythms from the East London artist. 

Download and tracklisting: https://www.xlr8r.com/podcasts/podcast-566-forest-drive-west

@forest-drive-west

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XLR8R Podcast 566: Forest Drive West

The Gemini Principle

Seven Year Itch

... the voices in my head told me to face the future ...

The story of this mix dates probably back to 2014, but I've lost track. Having recorded my previous studio mix I was wondering where I should take things next. The obvious next step from a DJ perspective would have been to record something harder, to showcase the side of my selection that hadn't received its spotlight. Maybe get a booking or two off the back of that. Then I decided to do the exact opposite! I picked the side of drum & bass that most promoters steer clear of, but that resonates with me the most - Autonomic.

... the voices in my head told me I'm not good enough ...

Can't count how many times I've scrapped the tracklist ideas I've had for this mix whenever I'd acquire a track that I felt NEEDED to be featured. Those tracks always ended up changing the direction of the set. Or I'd play back the combos I already had picked and realised they weren't all that good. That led me to believe *I* wasn't that good if I can't piece a mix together (and believe me, that shit really goes to my head, I'm an ambitious motherfucker). I would give up working on it for a week or even a few months. As time flew by, I had even more tunes that in turn kept changing my initial concept... well, you get the picture!

... the voices in my head told me to stop looking back ...

Until one day I finally decided to just say: "fuck it!" and get that final draft of the tracklist. Still took me a good few evenings piecing the idea together and I had no clue whether it would flow as well as I would imagine it to be until I'd actually have a go and actually record it. But then another thing dawned on me. I've put over 131 tracks on the list (137 if you count the teased ones) and the entire thing would take 5 hours or more to mix. Well, shit.

... the voices in my head told me to stay true to myself ...

That raised a whole new level of self-doubt. Who would even listen to a mix that long? We live in an age of an ever shortening attention span, people stop listening to mixes in favour of single tracks (hell, I myself find myself listening to less sets than I used to because "I don't have time"). But then I remembered why I wanted to record this in the first place - for myself and myself only. And if I would end up the only listener who would take the time to travel the entire journey and take the story in from beginning til end, then so be it. Thankfully some of your responses to my doubts on FB encouraged me as well. If you were part of those few voices outside my head, thank you. A special shout-out goes to my man CrissNSA of Dungeon Beats for letting me use his 3-deck setup. That definitely helped me push myself even further, as well as shorten it to 4,5h.

... the voices in my head told me it's time to let go ...

And that's exactly what I did, finally. I recorded this mix over a year ago and I still wasn't sure if it's good enough. I had a couple of people test-listen to it for feedback, but most of all I needed to have that one final internal dialogue (monologue?) to make the final decision and leap of faith. It may be "just a mix" to some, but by the time I scrapped yet another tracklist and started putting together the final one, the intent of this being my opus magnum was very strong. 

Did I succeed? Time will tell. But it's also time to stop being so precious about it.

TL;DR - This is a mix that took me a good 4-5 years to put together, for all the reasons mentioned above and more. There's more to it than just Autonomic of course, it bridges the gap between that side of DNB as well as its roots and other bits and pieces that just fit the story well. I hope you take your time to listen to it in one sitting, one day. The music deserves it.

(tracklist: https://www.mixesdb.com/w/2019-12-25_-_Alegria_-_Voices_In_My_Head )
((artwork created by EXID of Dungeon Beats / Lucysfear, all rights reserved))

Out Of My Head

Alegria - Voices In My Head (studio mix)

Reprisal

Force of Habit

R&S / Over Shadow / 31 Recordings / Critical Music / The Nothing Special / Cosmic Bridge
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Fields of Vengeance (Original Mix)

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