For a long time, the tag “drum’n’bass” had negative associations for me. It felt like the more polite and polished cousin of jungle, and who wants that? In the late nineties, in particular, there were a bunch of dinner-party-friendly albums in the genre, and my youthful spirit rebelled against such things. Well, that was a […]
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This record from D Tiffany (Canadian DJ and producer Sophie Sweetland) and Roza Terenzi (Australian DJ and producer Katie Campbell) takes us on an entertaining journey, from a kind of IDM-ish ambient techno, through a meaty section of rave-inflected trancy tech-house (did I ever mention that I’m crap at genres?), dipping briefly into something breaksier […]
If I told you that Mosillator is my very favourite Indian drum’n’bass artist, you’d probably think I was damning with faint praise, or trying to be clever. Well, how about if I say that this EP is about the best drum’n’bass record I’ve heard all year, and one of the best dance music records full […]
Bit of a mixed bag this one. There are some up-tempo drum’n’bass jobs which range from good fun (Neutralize) to irksomely overblown (Hypervelocity, whose pretentious pseudoscience gets my goat). There are a couple of down-tempo almost trip-hop jobs which do nothing for me (Superimposed). There are some mid-tempo atmospheric filler jobs which are nicely produced […]
dogrando writes about some records 