Parisian d&b artist Naibu has been a firm favourite for a while now. Creating stunning liquid tracks, he’s a true crate digger who utilises the sampling techniques close to our heart while adding beautiful melodies of his own, laid back pads and infections basslines to juxtapose the past and the future. Dusty crates meet space [...]
With his debut album Machines coming on Critical on the 12th November, the Russian heavyweight of all things bass is set to cement his mark on a d&b scene that he’s taken by storm with his gut wrenching steppers over the past few years. From the beautiful and serene to the all out warfare inducing, [...]
One of the often sung, but generally unseen, heroes of d&b, Break has been testing speakers with gut wrenching basses and tear out beats ever since his first release back in 2003 and is a man on a mission who doesn’t look set to let up any time soon. With a massive variety of sounds, [...]
A bit of a mammoth new in the bag this time round with loads of new bits for the d&b heads. Enjoy! Protect Audio- The Protection Ep: Another young label, Worcester based Protect Audio have recently put out their second release, an EP with tracks from Congress, Mono, Homemade Weapons and Marukomu. Starting off dark [...]
Spectrasoul- Lights in the Dark Ft. Terri Walker/Shadows Ft. Fox: As a build up to their forthcoming album (something a lot of heads have been looking forward to for a very long time!) on Shogun Audio, Spectrasoul are dropping a single twelve from it. It’s a massively anticipated album, and these two tracks give you [...]
D&B’s firing as per and we can barely keep up at the minute, but here’s our quick pick of the latest and greatest wax on (or just coming onto) the market. Critical- Sequence One Ep: Always ones to put their fans first, Critical come with a massive Christmas cracker of an EP full to bursting [...]
Break & Survival/Survival- Your Time Will Come/Harsh Language: This twelve is both Breaks first since his recent LP ‘Resistance’, and Dispatch’s first since ‘Transit One’, so it was interesting to see what both parties had been holding back. Survival joins Break on the a-side and goes solo on the b. ‘Your Time Will Come’ showcases [...]
R-Evolution Ep Part 1: St Petersburg based label Respect Recordings has come strong for it’s second release, a three tune 12″ featuring Implex, Despot and Enei. Although I’m not too much of a fan of the dancefloor based sounds of ‘Lightyears’, by Despot and Enei, which features spacey electro guitar and a funky bassline for [...]
I’ve been on a massive Vinyl binge recently, you know the ones… the binges where you get so involved and absorbed in what you’re doing, you end up embarking on a self indulging one man parade. I was the parade and D&B was the music. Here’s what’s in my bag recently. Break- Resistance LP: With [...]
Welcome to the first of our weekly ‘New in the Bag’ features. It’s basically a weekly spot light of what vinyl’s we’re feeling, whether they be newly released or stuff we’ve gone back to. For places to pick them up, we recommend Chemical Records, Juno, Kaizen, BM Soho, Redeye Records, Suspect Packages, Intense Records and [...]
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