[Wellsy]

Those are definitely some great classic names...

[Fiend]

Full spectrum!! If anyone needed a way to dabble in or sample a bit of dnb.....that is it.

[Fiend]

Some lovely and proper JUNGLE from Tommy The Cat on the wide ranging hard dance label PRSPCT:

https://www.junodownload.com/products/tommy-the-cat-something-mighty-strange-ep/5475109-02/

[Fiend]

Another one for the junglist massif, this is bloody great:

[CapitalistPunter]

Not entirely sure if it comes under the banner of Dnb but Machine Girl is brilliant

[Durbs]

There's a fair Sheffield people on this thread - just wondered if any of you made it to this?

[SamT]

Yeah - I was there with my lad -  flippin amazing. 
1:44:20 for me - yellow helmet next to wheelie boy - god I wish I could wheelie like that.

The huntersbar moment at 1:47:45 to 1:49:00  was such a moment.  Such a good atmosphere. 

[Fiend]

Good effort SamT, you picked a right wobbly one to be on camera.

[Durbs]

Wicked mate!

How are they to be in? Looks like mild chaos - completely taking over roads in a busy city centre! Are there front-riders clearing the way in front?

[SamT]

It was so chilled.  Such a good vibe.  Everyone really friendly.  99% of traffic was happy to be just sat there, with many bemused drivers joining in.  Only one or two dickheads futily trying to nudge foward.  There was just one cop car that seemed to be holding traffic up at the odd round about, but I get the impression that it wasn't pre organised, just the cops reacting to it on the day.  I lost my lad initially when we joined, (he's 14) and he was it bit preturbed initially, but we found each other again and then he hooked up with a mate and left me to it.  Didn't spot any trouble.  It moves so slowly that its not really that dangerous.  Def get down to one if he's in your area.   There are lots of radio linked speakers front middle and back so it doesn't really matter where you are in the group, but the atmos is def better in and around dom himself, obv.

[Fiend]

I don't have any techno tips at the moment but as always drum and bass and jungle are full of exciting stuff.

This time it's the follow-up to Presha's excellent RATS EP on Samurai, one of my favourite releases of last year, with one of my favourite tracks Mainliner.
https://presha.bandcamp.com/album/rats

He's released not one, not two, but THREE remix EPs for this with a variety of artists related to the roster, and the jungle remix ones are great:
https://presha.bandcamp.com/album/rats-infest-1
https://presha.bandcamp.com/album/rats-infest-2

In particular the Homemade Weapons remix of Mainliner...


...and the Last Life remix of Vendetta...

...are heavy as fuck. Proper deep dark and expertly crafted business 

[crzylgs]

I'm only one minute into 'Homemade Weapons remix of Mainliner' that you linked above. Wow. Solid tune. Not a genre I typically listen to (I'm basically stuck in a 90/00s Trance loophole...) and not one I can listen to in large quantities but that really is mighty! Definitely getting added to a 'Hype / Fuck some shit up' playlist - cheers!

[Fiend]

Just wait till you get 2.15 minutes in 

Cheers crazylgs  Samurai have carved a really strong niche of properly uncompromising half-time-dubbed-out-chopped-breaks modern jungle and DnB. I've got loads in their back catalogue.

Since you mentioned trance, you might like the sounds in this:

[lagerstarfish]

this might be worth a listen - history of drum and bass

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0clxkpt

[crzylgs]

@Fiend - Another solid recommend nice one!

[Fiend]

I got a nice wad point a while ago from crzglgs for deepest darkest and heaviest DnB recommendations, so well, here we go again, the latest comp from Samurai and it's as good as usual:

https://samuraimusic.bandcamp.com/album/samurai-hannya-ii

Quite a broad spectrum here from methodical technoid plodders from Mako, minimal tribalism from The Untouchables, serious industrial jungle presha from Presha, and proper fucking nightmare fuel from Artilect.

[Fiend]

Okay this is a real slice of personal history for me. I'd been into jungle / dnb for a couple of years and was pretty much loving it, but then I heard this track on John Peel in the late 90s, was listening to the first bit and thought "yeah this is pretty cool". Then.....halfway through.....the 2nd drop (needs speakers / headphones). That was it. Pretty sure I'd always be into DnB in some form after that.

[Fiend]

Some great stuff on Over/Shadow recently - https://over-shadow.bandcamp.com/music - a vague resurrection of the legendary Moving Shadow records, with a similar high quality ethos and a good varied of refined, mostly jungle-tinged, released. A personal favourite being this excellent new one from Dom and Crystl "Stimulant" with a lovely blend of soaring melodies and tones like the cry of avian aliens, militant drums of a victorious army, and bass pulses direct from the earth's core:


https://domandroland.bandcamp.com/track/stimulant-2

Also, I've been loving this track from a couple of years ago by Sully (who also has a release on Over/Shadow), a bit of top old skool / nu skool jungle, with a proper uplifting chopped up breakbeat work out, 1:42 should put a grin on anyone's face.


https://sullyuk.bandcamp.com/track/swandive

[Falling Down]

Massive!

https://metalheadz.bandcamp.com/album/back-to-school-ep

[Fiend]

The most consistent producer in DnB is a back with an album on Over/Shadow and this magnificent (not hyperbole - that's as much "genre" as praise!) track. However loud you usually listen to DnB, add 10% and imagine yourself walking out to the wall in an IFSC final to this.

[Fiend]

https://rdgs.bandcamp.com/album/samurai-outliers-004

The most consistent label in DnB is back with an EP from RDG and it's a head spinner of mercilessly mechanically precise tribal-industrial post-jungle experimental breakbeat rhythm workouts. Yup it's got drums, and bass, all at a classic 170bpm tempo, but this won't get mainstream radio airplay.

[stone]

since it's Chrimbo, this needs a listen (I do every year) 

[Fiend]

Samurai on point yet again with a great EP by Hoji, this track in particular is a fantastic blend of haunting hypnotic soundscapes and cascading jungle percussion. There's a reason that this thread is called F-ing Amazing Drum'n'Bass and there's a reason that I still bloody love this music, and tracks like this are the reason...

[TheRealBeech]

Samurai on point yet again with a great EP by Hoji, this track in particular is a fantastic blend of haunting hypnotic soundscapes and cascading jungle percussion. There's a reason that this thread is called F-ing Amazing Drum'n'Bass and there's a reason that I still bloody love this music, and tracks like this are the reason...

I’d reccomend the 3 albums tech itch dropped recently,  covert one, two and three .

[Fiend]

Finally got around to checking those out, I got Covert:One on the basis of this extremely proper track:



I have mixed feelings about Tech Itch, as much as I like a lot of his music. I get a bit annoyed with his constant over-pricing on bandcamp (£18 for a DIGITAL album?? Compared to a CD usually being <£15?? No thanks I'll stick to £7:50 at Juno), the associated delaying Juno releases for months, the trendy artist anonymity despite most of them probably being Tech Itch himself, and also bailing on Bangface with no reason given whatsoever.

Still, that's a bloody good dark roller....