anyone got any recommendations for Drum & Bass music? this frequency response chart from my hearing test today suggests that I should get really into Drum & Bass music
serious inquiry

thanks everyone for all the replies! this is a lot to sort through, but I'll try to give everything a listen <3

also I put all the youtube recommendations into a playlist, should anyone also be interested https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgu3yoT27_nImks9FxdnwYrulZzVqcKW_

[drum, base, and other] recommendations from fedi

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i've got the amen break stuck in my head now lol
@aeva also listen to the track the loop is from. it's fantastic.
The Winstons - Amen Brother

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@aeva now you can work on recognizing think, impeach the president, hot pants, apache, soul pride, rock dirge
@cancel already got think down
Dieselboy - Beyond The Black Bassline (Full Mix) [HD]

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"How It's Done" Official Lyric Video | KPop Demon Hunters | Sony Animation

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@aeva http://www.dojoe.net/mixes/ I‘ve been listening through dojoes sets recently
dojoe's DJ sets

@aeva anyways reading that post got https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hMSrIrSdPo stuck in my head for some reason
Momoiro Clover Z - Lost Child (El Poco Maro Remix)

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@aeva oh also, you can listen to a lot of Venjent now, so that’s great. I particularly like https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tDWEpYGPHv4 even though it doesn’t come with as funny a video as most things
Venjent - The Worst Is Already Over [Music Video]

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@halcy this is all fantastic <3 ty

@aeva This got my attention due to the Rou Reynolds feature on it
*waves hands in the air*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBauB5GRVUQ

Hedex & Rou Reynolds - Dance Dance Dance (Music Video)

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@aeva I randomly found this today and have been listening to it as I work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOXI0k4wZEg

GREENCORE | Liquid DnB / Jungle Mix

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@aeva Pendulum got me to appreciate the genre
@aeva Now you're talking my speciality, what would you like, some melodic / liquid dnb, something more heavy like some neurofunk, or something even heavier like crossbreed?
@wasabi I am sticking my nose in here but I have never heard of crossbreed and would like to, please and thank you!

@MrDOS Hello, crossbreed is a weird middle ground between heavy dnb and hardcore, with usually some inspiration from Punk and Metal music, often with clear political messages (antifa, anticapital, etc), the most popular artists of this subgenre would be Sinister Souls, Counterstrike and Hallucinator.

A few of my all time favorites would be "FCKN Hostile" by Sinister Souls : https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=dXS4NLrFrRs&si=0A9d5t-b1lk51s13

"Raise Your Middle Finger" by Hallucinator and Isacco Pattini : https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=hv_OVth05yg&si=L41l7RwscW5b9o0-

"Black Skies" by Gridlock, Maztek and Verse : https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=nsa6yDFdOQk&si=yVPlV1uKd8IQipj6

I hope you'll enjoy this subgenre 

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@wasabi This is great. Thank you for the detailed explanation!
@MrDOS Glad I could share! I've been in the Dubstep and DnB community for years, helped some event organisators in Paris, met a ton of DJs, and learned a lot, so I'm always happy to talk about those genres and share my experience, if you have any question or want some recommandations based on stuff you like I'm always down!
@wasabi a bit of everything

@aeva For the melodic / liquid dnb, I highly recommend the Liquicity playlists and albums to find artists you'd enjoy, one of my favorite in this category would be Feint, he does stuff like this : https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=FKouzkSYwkI&si=9CiZvltEhWiw6fM6

I would also recommend Fox Stevenson, he also does some dubstep and rock too, and he likes to combine genres together, he also has a cool singing voice ! Here's my favorite from him : https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=N4rPHS2rdb8&si=5lFlmj_cP26t9LoV

Honorable mention, Luude, I love the vibe : https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=HRwYixLzpOQ&si=pML1sW5f4dsaYG0I

Then you have Dancefloor DnB, it's kinda like liquid DnB but usually with more synths, it's also a great vibe, if you enjoy driving a car at night under the rain, it's amazing, here's Sub Focus : https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=4VywybNzXkE&si=lDf3kh1bW7lpluRx

Honorable mention, if you catch Wilkinson, Dimension, 1991, or Metrik, they have some similar vibes, they're cool too, here's my favorite from Metrik : https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=mGvx-tpbv8c&si=ZKR15RMvNAI-h8LL

Now I also recommend checking Rene Lavice, he goes a bit harder, he also hosts a show on BBC Radio One, worth checking out! And my favorite from him would be this one : https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=4PX_c7ucR34&si=LdlED_0q6enKie6G

Similaresque vibes, a bit further on the neurofunk side, you can check Gydra (who's collabing on the Rene Lavice track I sent), Pythius, The Clamps, Mefjus, Qo, Trilo, here's an example : https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=48W2kYc3hCU&si=-0hQk-3gnWazXP0B

And finally, you might have heard about those, but some of the classics you can also check out would be Noisia, Pendulum, The Prodigy, The Prototypes, Culture Shock, Tantrum Desire, etc.

I could send so many more but I think it's a fair start, I hope you'll find something you like that will make you want to discover more!

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@wasabi this is great, thanks!
low poly water mix™ - [Ambient, Jungle, DNB, VGM]

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@aeva

Underworld's "Second Toughest In the Infants" is one of the best albums ever made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UCI-3xLewc&list=OLAK5uy_n87_tujzscISac_VLcYLnR6-Ay-q05M_U&index=3

Juanita: Kiteless: To Dream Of Love (Remastered)

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@aeva All my favorite Drum & Bass tracks are .xm files lost to the sands of time.
LEVEL SELECT, by Pizza Hotline

11 track album

Pizza Hotline

@aeva decent overall selection here for starters: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5UCD2PjrQuAZQc93y5bmJD

Personal Playlist made of all the dnb tracks I’ve “liked” on Spotify (so this is my taste, ymmv): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1FmBetgBuLrtwM3ie0Uf5u

Iconic Drum and Bass

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John B - Starburst 1.1 (1997)

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@aeva Gosh where do you start... I got into D&B around 1997, so my tastes are quite oldskool.

Dom & Roland - Deckard's Theme
https://youtu.be/Pg0WfdaKGOQ?si=3gEiP5XDPg2fo9to

Digital & Spirit - Phantom Force
https://youtu.be/81Gq3qJ0azM?si=FVX8eXxcEea1pUZ0

Ed Rush & Optical - Gas Mask
https://youtu.be/Rn8HLKl6ptk?si=YUaJcXPbvM_MFJnc

Grooverider - Charade
https://youtu.be/2SC8H_5sO8w?si=zbAw8_bBCYZdYMa-

Dom & Roland - Deckers theme (Deckard's theme)

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@aeva definitely. Check out:
winslow (hits after about 1m): https://winslowxyz.bandcamp.com/track/sandalwood-nights
degs: https://degsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/hang-up-the-mic

Also can't go wrong with Pendulum (e.g. Hold Your Colour album), London Elektricity (e.g. Syncopated City), or Ed Rush & Optical (e.g. Travel the Galaxy).

Sandalwood Nights, by winslow.

from the album Sandalwood Nights

winslow.
@aeva Second disc of this album's one of my all time faves in the genre: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAsGMGFGrzojRi-YBWnL1wy3mRsI2V6gX
4hero「Two Pages+Reinterpretations」【11+9+10】(1998)(1999)

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@aeva Mitch Murder, who is normally a synthwave artist, has recently started to put out some nice atmospheric DnB, and I'm all for it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYkKhgh2vXg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lffi1eEge4o

Also just yesterday I've remembered about Bustre, they're great at melodic stuff: https://bustre.bandcamp.com/track/calamity-part-1

Mitch Murder - Hurricane

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@aeva UKF on YouTube is a guaranteed way to find some good stuff of all subgenres.

I also keep a huge playlist of D&B here. mostly mainstream club and liquid stuff, some neuro.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2WJWZyIXd06cscBagEjK9J

D&B All The Time

Playlist · polynomial · 3290 items · 37 saves

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@aeva a snapshot of the playlist from last year is also available as a JSON blob here, in case you don't want to interact with Spotify

https://github.com/gsuberland/dnb/

(I should really update this repo)

GitHub - gsuberland/dnb: Track suggestions and erroneous track reporting for my drum & bass playlists.

Track suggestions and erroneous track reporting for my drum & bass playlists. - gsuberland/dnb

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@aeva oh and I run a script that pulls the UKF Drum & Bass Top 100 playlist every hour and turns it into a cumulative playlist containing everything that's ever been in the top 100 chart.

the official UKF playlist itself deletes all entries and re-adds them every time it's updated, so it all ends up with the same added timestamp and you can't tell what's new, so I made this to get around that issue.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3eV8DEw5Sm4dgzEZHy26lI

no external JSON export available on this one unfortunately.

UKF Drum & Bass Top 100, but cumulative

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@aeva and some recommendations for big crowd pleaser tracks / interesting stuff:

Calyx & TeeBee - Long Gone
Dimension - Generator
Sub Focus - Airplane (Culture Shock Remix)
DJ Fresh - Gold Dust
Tom Finster - The Hole
CLIQUES - Are You There?
Camo & Krooked - Good Times Bad Times (Document One Remix)
Justin Hawkes - Better Than Gold
Vibe Chemistry - Loca (Document One Remix)
UK Apache, Shy FX ft. IRAH - Original Nuttah '25 (Chase & Status Remix)
Aaron Smith, Luvli - Dancin' (Kara DNB Bootleg)

@aeva and some awesome remix / bootleg stuff:

1991, Subsonic, Ian Van Dahl - Castles In The Sky
Chicane, Bryan Adams - Don't Give Up ft. Bryan Adams (Grafix Extended Remix)
Campbell x Alcemist, - Would You Go To Bed With Me (blkout. remix)
Mason, Princess Superstar - Perfect (Exceeder) - 1991 Remix
Alice Deejay, Savage - Better Off Alone (Savage Remix)
The Prodigy, Mefjus & Camo & Krooked - Breathe (Mefjus & Camo & Krooked remix)
Luude - Down Under
The Cardigans - Favourite Game (Ozma Remix)

@aeva Lamb mixes various genres but is certainly DnB adjacent. Most of their tracks have prominent vocals but here's a fun instrumental track I really like (it evolves a lot over its duration).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1M2hfDMJHU
Ear Parcel

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@aeva A few artists I like in particular:
- Pendulum (probably the most famous DnB band, bordering on Alternative / Metal)
- Camo & Krooked, Mefjus (a bit "artsy" and experimental)
- Venjent (this guy can turn any random sample into a real banger)
- Koven, Fox Stevenson (actual lyrics there)
- Chase & Status, Sigma, Rudimental (for the true UK sound ;)
- various others: Feint, Friction, Maduk, Murdock

For a specific track recommendation, that's gotta be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oSxF0cNlNM - a true hymn!

SHOCKONE - LIGHT CYCLES (WITH PRELUDE)

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@aeva my favorite atmospheric DnB tracks recently:
- the Sensorium EP by arcologies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb4bARgep3E
- So old, but so gold: Inner-Vation - Key 2 Creation (1999) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2kEg6ng30s

I heard it first in one of the FIREWALKER many mixes, it was mentioned previously.

SENSORIUM EP :: Atmospheric DnB & Jungle

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