Aphrodite
Roni Size (with or without Reprazent)
Future Prophecies
Ed Rush & Optical (the godfathers of the genre)
LTJ Bukem (more chill than the others)
DJ Hype (his live stuff is awesome)
Dieselboy
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
pppht. Maybe if you're into little girl music, Feral.
Black Sun Empire is a DJ collective who are pretty much completely fucking rad. Extremely aggressive sounding, fast drum and bass with a big focus on the drums. You can go ahead and also look up literally anyone they've ever collaborated with and find another great artist. I swear by BSE.
Also very good are Neutronic, who straddle the IDM genre but are really too drum centric not to be drum and bass.
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Bodgan Raczynski's Samurai Math Beats is pretty damn good. Squarepusher is one of the standards, although he delved into weird jazz for a bit, meaning that Big Loada, Feed Me Weird Things, and Hard Normal Daddy is really the only stuff that's easily drum 'n bass.
I have some Spring Heel Jack, but it's too repetitious for my tastes. Same with Photek, although Form & Function has some quality work as well as Risc Vs. Reward. Lots of old Ninja Tune fits easily into the drum 'n bass mold with some more interesting things going on, such as Amon Tobin up to and including Permutation. That also includes Funki Porcini's Let's see what Carmen can do EP and Love, Pussycats, and Carwrecks LP.
A fair amount of Meat Beat Manifesto's Actual Sounds & Voices album would fit happily into a drum & bass fan's collection, although earlier stuff is more new-wave and later stuff is more abstract. And Hrvatski's Oiseaux 96-98 is definitely more on the abstract tip, but is probably the only blatant abuse of the amen break that I can stand.
Lots of other stuff doesn't do it for me as it's just the amen break with the same 2-step based patterrns for 7 minutes with some rumbly bass preset noodling about (and sometimes some old movies samples). But since your thread isn't very specific as to what you're actually looking for in the drum & bass genre, I'd suggest you at least check the above albums out. They're all previewable online, either via emusic, iTunes, or bleep.com, I believe.
others I like
Calyx
Ill Skillz
Klute - who went from industrial to drum and bass faster than I could see
Counterstrike - don't know what other albums are out, I have From Beyond The Grave and really like it
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jackfaces
"If you're going to play tiddly winks, play it with man hole covers."
- John McCallum
ewun
limewax
spl (a.k.a sound pressure levels)
noah d
John b. (he varies from super synthed out stuff to funny to hard bassy type tracks)
tza
spor
dom & roland
I saw a kickass D&B show that was comprised of DJ Dara, AK1200 and Dieselboy (I think they do shows like this all the time called "Planet of the Drums").
So there's three artists right there. I also like High Contrast.
Alec Empire is pretty crazy D&B stuff. So is some stuff by Christoph De Babylon.
This is just stuff in my collection, I like drum and bass, but it's not my area of expertise.
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"Damn you and your Daily Doubles, you brigand!"
I don't believe it - I'm on my THIRD PS3, and my FIRST XBOX360. What the heck?
others I like
Calyx
Ill Skillz
Klute - who went from industrial to drum and bass faster than I could see
Counterstrike - don't know what other albums are out, I have From Beyond The Grave and really like it
Actually, I thought there were two Klute's: the Industrial guy and the DnB guy...
Taco Bell does win the franchise war according to the tome of knowledge that is Demolition Man. However, I've watched Demolition Man more then a few times and never once did I see WoW. In conclusion Taco Bell has more lasting power then WoW.
Squarepusher is a great place to start. As someone said, he got a little jazzy later, but I don't view that as a bad thing, his music was just evolving. Big Loada is a great starting place with him. Hard Normal Daddy is also great, but all of his stuff is worth a listen.
The Propellerhead's album Deackanddrumsandrockandroll is good, but it may stray a little from drum and bass and more into just.. dj electronic dance music.
The Venetian Snares. Some people say they're really spastic, but I kind of like it. Songs About My Cats (or something like that) is a good album.
Two other great electronic/drum 'n' bass groups are Autechre and Kid606. Can't go wrong with anything by them. I recommend Confield and Ep7 by Authechre and Don't Sweat The Technics by Kid606. Tadd Mullinix also fits into this sound I'd say, his album Winking Makes A Face is worth a listen.
Some people also consider Dntel and The Postal Service drum 'n' bass, so check them out if you haven't. Dntel is the not-singing half of the postal service. His album is more in this genre than the Postal Service, it's called Life is Full of Possibilities.
I would say Blue Man Group is more pop percussion ensemble rock band than anything else... Not so much drum 'n bass. I personally am not a huge fan.
Finally, I would consider Lamb's first album (self-titled) drum'n'bass. And if not, you should still check it out, because it's just a damn good album. After that one, they kind of lost something, the chick changed the way she sings into this really annoying poppy voice, and the music just kind of lamed out. I could list tracks that are good after their first album if you want me to, though.
Hope that helps. Enjoy.
Edit: Whoops, almost forgot... Does Aphex Twin count? He's incredible. Check him out.
I guess I realized everything I put may not be strictly drum 'n' bass, maybe they're more on the outskirts of the genre, but worth a listen.
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"It's like a pterodactyl from a gay Jurassic Park."
Squarepusher is a great place to start. As someone said, he got a little jazzy later, but I don't view that as a bad thing, his music was just evolving. Big Loada is a great starting place with him. Hard Normal Daddy is also great, but all of his stuff is worth a listen.
The Propellerhead's album Deackanddrumsandrockandroll is good, but it may stray a little from drum and bass and more into just.. dj electronic dance music.
The Venetian Snares. Some people say they're really spastic, but I kind of like it. Songs About My Cats (or something like that) is a good album.
Two other great electronic/drum 'n' bass groups are Autechre and Kid606. Can't go wrong with anything by them. I recommend Confield and Ep7 by Authechre and Don't Sweat The Technics by Kid606. Tadd Mullinix also fits into this sound I'd say, his album Winking Makes A Face is worth a listen.
Some people also consider Dntel and The Postal Service drum 'n' bass, so check them out if you haven't. Dntel is the not-singing half of the postal service. His album is more in this genre than the Postal Service, it's called Life is Full of Possibilities.
I would say Blue Man Group is more pop percussion ensemble rock band than anything else... Not so much drum 'n bass. I personally am not a huge fan.
Finally, I would consider Lamb's first album (self-titled) drum'n'bass. And if not, you should still check it out, because it's just a damn good album. After that one, they kind of lost something, the chick changed the way she sings into this really annoying poppy voice, and the music just kind of lamed out. I could list tracks that are good after their first album if you want me to, though.
Hope that helps. Enjoy.
Edit: Whoops, almost forgot... Does Aphex Twin count? He's incredible. Check him out.
I guess I realized everything I put may not be strictly drum 'n' bass, maybe they're more on the outskirts of the genre, but worth a listen.
You and I would get along so well, in terms of electronic music selection
Kid Spatula's "hard love" is one of my fav IDM/DnB tracks. That guys is amazing, I think he's most known as mu-ziq
Taco Bell does win the franchise war according to the tome of knowledge that is Demolition Man. However, I've watched Demolition Man more then a few times and never once did I see WoW. In conclusion Taco Bell has more lasting power then WoW.
To the OP, there is SO much good shit out at the moment that it's actually pretty rude. Check some of the artists I write about in my weekly "vinyl therapy" blogs on my MySpace (linked below).
What sort of stuff are you into? I could recommend dozens of artists in each particular sub-genre with ease.
others I like
Calyx
Ill Skillz
Klute - who went from industrial to drum and bass faster than I could see
Counterstrike - don't know what other albums are out, I have From Beyond The Grave and really like it
Actually, I thought there were two Klute's: the Industrial guy and the DnB guy...
others I like
Calyx
Ill Skillz
Klute - who went from industrial to drum and bass faster than I could see
Counterstrike - don't know what other albums are out, I have From Beyond The Grave and really like it
Actually, I thought there were two Klute's: the Industrial guy and the DnB guy...
hey thanks
all this time i thought he just went a whole new route
anyway
another dnb guy i like is plug, who is luke vibert, who is also wagon christ and i think he has one more alias
plug is his dnb stuff though
I had thought the same for some time as well, stumbled across that Wiki some time ago. I wasn't much of a fan of his industrial work so I just assumed other people thought he sucked and he went DnB...
Taco Bell does win the franchise war according to the tome of knowledge that is Demolition Man. However, I've watched Demolition Man more then a few times and never once did I see WoW. In conclusion Taco Bell has more lasting power then WoW.
others I like
Calyx
Ill Skillz
Klute - who went from industrial to drum and bass faster than I could see
Counterstrike - don't know what other albums are out, I have From Beyond The Grave and really like it
Actually, I thought there were two Klute's: the Industrial guy and the DnB guy...
Man, you americans really don't know the difference 'tween DnB and regular dance music.
RDJ (or Aphex Twin, or AFX or whatever) has done some stuff in the past that could be considered Drum & Bass. Burt most of it is just regular* electronic** dance, and personally my favourite pieces he's done are ambient piano.
*Well, as regular as he gets, anyhow.
**Yes I'm aware of his analogue stuff like the Analord EPs
They're a fucking rock band. Completely irrelevant to the topic at hand.
heh haven't slept in days.
Checking my playlist I've got some Adam F and Corrupt Souls.
Next time don't post if you haven't managed to read even the subject line of the thread you're replying to.
Also, I saw someone recommending Autechre, who are a lot of things, but very certainly NOT drum and bass. Aphex Twin released a few drum and bass influenced records, but none of them fall entirely into the genre. Drukqs is a really good album that I think everyone should have, but it's a double CD with some really shit tracks towards the end of the first disc and all of the best songs on it aren't actually drum and bass at all. Even the drum and bass esque tracks are more commonly referred to as drill and bass (owing to the ludicrously high bpm of the repetitive drums resulting in them sounding almost like a drill).
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edited March 2007
I love Roni Size. Good stuff.
Railing Pt. 2 = . The one with Method Man is cool too. Ghetto Celebrity.
I'm not too caught up on D'n'B, but I know Beatmania had a decent sampling from time to time. Probably not stuff you'd come across easily though. The Sampling Masters contributed a few tracks here and there.
DnB is a diverse genre. A lot of it has that hip hop vibe to it, and a lot of it has a house vibe to it. I don't like any of that stuff. I like the dark, aggressive drum and bass, like the aforementioned Black Sun Empire (BSE), Technical Itch, Concord Dawn and others. The Killa Bites collections are good, or at least, I have Volume 2 and it's really good. It's mixed by Technical Itch.
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The Killa Bites collections are good, or at least, I have Volume 2 and it's really good. It's mixed by Technical Itch.
I'll have to investigate those.
Dieselboy, mentioned earlier, does not actually produce tracks afaik; but he does make pretty solid mix sets, all sped up and hardified. Project Human and Dungeon Master's Guide are the most recent one's I picked up, they are a good sampling of the darkness. Tech Itch, Raiden, Konflict, Concorde Dawn, Kosheen, etc etc all make appearances.
His website also has some sets on it in mp3 format http://www.djdieselboy.com/ for free; which I am just discovering, and damn that's pretty cool.
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cj iwakuraThe Rhythm RegentBears The Name FreedomRegistered Userregular
edited March 2007
I remember his stuff used in Amplitude... also reminds me of Wildchild(Nitro Narcosis), but I can't remember if they were DnB or not.
Taco Bell does win the franchise war according to the tome of knowledge that is Demolition Man. However, I've watched Demolition Man more then a few times and never once did I see WoW. In conclusion Taco Bell has more lasting power then WoW.
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edited March 2007
I'm going to go ahead an suggest Black Sun Empire, too. Also good are Noisia and Leon Switch + Kryptic Minds (I only have one album by them though, but it is fucking great).
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One of my favorite DnB artists is Big Bud, specifically Infinity + Infinity. It's an extremely chill, atmospheric album. I'm also seconding Pendulum, whose Hold Your Colour album I've listened to countless times.
One of my favorite DnB artists is Big Bud, specifically Infinity + Infinity. It's an extremely chill, atmospheric album.
You know your shit, dude! :^:
Big Bud is a legend and that is my fave atmospheric DnB album of all time! His latest, Fear of Flying, is also really good but in a different way, lots of varied influences (it's 2 CDs btw). There's an album full of other artist's remixes of it coming out soon, I've got a couple of the vinyls and they're the shizz!
For the guys who like the harder stuff, check out this mix of mine. It's from Nov of last year so isn't up on my MySpace (just set it up) but it's definitely my proudest moment thus far...I even manage my first double drop! Wootah!
Tracklist:
00:00 Break - Evil Twin [Symmetry]
06:38 D Kay & Sonic - Feature Creep [Brigand]
10:29 Concord Dawn (ft State of Mind) - Aces High [Uprising]
13:04 Silent Witness - Atlanta [Critical]
17:07 SKC - Butchery [Commercial Suicide]
20:28 Silent Witness & Break - Hollow [DNAudio]
25:13 Subfocus - Swamp Thing [Ram]
27:48 Concord Dawn - Man For All Seasons (Chris.SU & SKC remix) [Uprising]
31:52 Subfocus - Airplane [Ram]
34:48 Subfocus - Juno [Ram]
37:45 ill Skillz - Clownz [Metalheadz]
40:42 Culture Shock - The Bypass [Ram]
44:23 DJ Fresh - Nervous (Subfocus remix) [BBK]
48:03 Silent witness - California [Critical]
50:38 SKC - Alpha Centauri [Commercial Suicide]
54:19 D-Bridge vs D Kay - Nothing Is True [ExitVS]
58:47 Sabre - Language Barrier [Horizons]
1:03:14Drifter & Shanodin - Angel Eyes [Engine]
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Roni Size (with or without Reprazent)
Future Prophecies
Ed Rush & Optical (the godfathers of the genre)
LTJ Bukem (more chill than the others)
DJ Hype (his live stuff is awesome)
Dieselboy
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Black Sun Empire is a DJ collective who are pretty much completely fucking rad. Extremely aggressive sounding, fast drum and bass with a big focus on the drums. You can go ahead and also look up literally anyone they've ever collaborated with and find another great artist. I swear by BSE.
Also very good are Neutronic, who straddle the IDM genre but are really too drum centric not to be drum and bass.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
I have some Spring Heel Jack, but it's too repetitious for my tastes. Same with Photek, although Form & Function has some quality work as well as Risc Vs. Reward. Lots of old Ninja Tune fits easily into the drum 'n bass mold with some more interesting things going on, such as Amon Tobin up to and including Permutation. That also includes Funki Porcini's Let's see what Carmen can do EP and Love, Pussycats, and Carwrecks LP.
A fair amount of Meat Beat Manifesto's Actual Sounds & Voices album would fit happily into a drum & bass fan's collection, although earlier stuff is more new-wave and later stuff is more abstract. And Hrvatski's Oiseaux 96-98 is definitely more on the abstract tip, but is probably the only blatant abuse of the amen break that I can stand.
Lots of other stuff doesn't do it for me as it's just the amen break with the same 2-step based patterrns for 7 minutes with some rumbly bass preset noodling about (and sometimes some old movies samples). But since your thread isn't very specific as to what you're actually looking for in the drum & bass genre, I'd suggest you at least check the above albums out. They're all previewable online, either via emusic, iTunes, or bleep.com, I believe.
get some R.A.W. mixes
others I like
Calyx
Ill Skillz
Klute - who went from industrial to drum and bass faster than I could see
Counterstrike - don't know what other albums are out, I have From Beyond The Grave and really like it
"If you're going to play tiddly winks, play it with man hole covers."
- John McCallum
Steam | Live
EDIT: And if it exists, some bass heavy, not broken beat, easier to dance to stuff.
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They're a fucking rock band. Completely irrelevant to the topic at hand.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
limewax
spl (a.k.a sound pressure levels)
noah d
John b. (he varies from super synthed out stuff to funny to hard bassy type tracks)
tza
spor
dom & roland
all of them quite badass.
So there's three artists right there. I also like High Contrast.
Alec Empire is pretty crazy D&B stuff. So is some stuff by Christoph De Babylon.
This is just stuff in my collection, I like drum and bass, but it's not my area of expertise.
I don't believe it - I'm on my THIRD PS3, and my FIRST XBOX360. What the heck?
heh haven't slept in days.
Checking my playlist I've got some Adam F and Corrupt Souls.
Steam | Live
Actually, I thought there were two Klute's: the Industrial guy and the DnB guy...
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klut%C3%A6
The Propellerhead's album Deackanddrumsandrockandroll is good, but it may stray a little from drum and bass and more into just.. dj electronic dance music.
The Venetian Snares. Some people say they're really spastic, but I kind of like it. Songs About My Cats (or something like that) is a good album.
Two other great electronic/drum 'n' bass groups are Autechre and Kid606. Can't go wrong with anything by them. I recommend Confield and Ep7 by Authechre and Don't Sweat The Technics by Kid606. Tadd Mullinix also fits into this sound I'd say, his album Winking Makes A Face is worth a listen.
Some people also consider Dntel and The Postal Service drum 'n' bass, so check them out if you haven't. Dntel is the not-singing half of the postal service. His album is more in this genre than the Postal Service, it's called Life is Full of Possibilities.
I would say Blue Man Group is more pop percussion ensemble rock band than anything else... Not so much drum 'n bass. I personally am not a huge fan.
Finally, I would consider Lamb's first album (self-titled) drum'n'bass. And if not, you should still check it out, because it's just a damn good album. After that one, they kind of lost something, the chick changed the way she sings into this really annoying poppy voice, and the music just kind of lamed out. I could list tracks that are good after their first album if you want me to, though.
Hope that helps. Enjoy.
Edit: Whoops, almost forgot... Does Aphex Twin count? He's incredible. Check him out.
I guess I realized everything I put may not be strictly drum 'n' bass, maybe they're more on the outskirts of the genre, but worth a listen.
You and I would get along so well, in terms of electronic music selection
Kid Spatula's "hard love" is one of my fav IDM/DnB tracks. That guys is amazing, I think he's most known as mu-ziq
I havn't got anythign to suggest that hasn't been said already.
Amon Tobin.
Are NOT drum and bass! :^:
To the OP, there is SO much good shit out at the moment that it's actually pretty rude. Check some of the artists I write about in my weekly "vinyl therapy" blogs on my MySpace (linked below).
What sort of stuff are you into? I could recommend dozens of artists in each particular sub-genre with ease.
Pendulum (currently HUGE in Australia)
Concord Dawn (Couple of NZ guys)
Black Sun Empire (as already mentioned)
The CD : The Next Level mixed by DJ Friction. A mate picked it up randomly and it's all pretty solid.
hey thanks
all this time i thought he just went a whole new route
anyway
another dnb guy i like is plug, who is luke vibert, who is also wagon christ and i think he has one more alias
plug is his dnb stuff though
"If you're going to play tiddly winks, play it with man hole covers."
- John McCallum
I had thought the same for some time as well, stumbled across that Wiki some time ago. I wasn't much of a fan of his industrial work so I just assumed other people thought he sucked and he went DnB...
Wagon christ++
Wagon Christ has done some work with that duo I mentioned, Lamb, some remixes/collaborations and what not. Check that out also if you're interested.
Amon Tobin! ++++
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory Soundtrack !
among other fine albums he has. probably actually better than the chaos theory soundtrack :P
RDJ (or Aphex Twin, or AFX or whatever) has done some stuff in the past that could be considered Drum & Bass. Burt most of it is just regular* electronic** dance, and personally my favourite pieces he's done are ambient piano.
*Well, as regular as he gets, anyhow.
**Yes I'm aware of his analogue stuff like the Analord EPs
I read it as a joke that they're a rock band who only have drums and bass.
Next time don't post if you haven't managed to read even the subject line of the thread you're replying to.
Also, I saw someone recommending Autechre, who are a lot of things, but very certainly NOT drum and bass. Aphex Twin released a few drum and bass influenced records, but none of them fall entirely into the genre. Drukqs is a really good album that I think everyone should have, but it's a double CD with some really shit tracks towards the end of the first disc and all of the best songs on it aren't actually drum and bass at all. Even the drum and bass esque tracks are more commonly referred to as drill and bass (owing to the ludicrously high bpm of the repetitive drums resulting in them sounding almost like a drill).
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Roni Size - Who Told You
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GP5xtaPjQhM&mode=related&search=
Although... this song has that british hip-hop-esque DnB thing goin'
Railing Pt. 2 =
I'm not too caught up on D'n'B, but I know Beatmania had a decent sampling from time to time. Probably not stuff you'd come across easily though. The Sampling Masters contributed a few tracks here and there.
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I'll have to investigate those.
Dieselboy, mentioned earlier, does not actually produce tracks afaik; but he does make pretty solid mix sets, all sped up and hardified. Project Human and Dungeon Master's Guide are the most recent one's I picked up, they are a good sampling of the darkness. Tech Itch, Raiden, Konflict, Concorde Dawn, Kosheen, etc etc all make appearances.
His website also has some sets on it in mp3 format http://www.djdieselboy.com/ for free; which I am just discovering, and damn that's pretty cool.
Symbion Project dabbled in it, kind of.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng5iG8r9GT8
It's not the best but it's solid.
So very, very wrong
(I'm ianwil1976 btw)
A few podcasts you should be checking out:
Hospital
Digital Soundboy
Liquid Passion
I've got my first Sydney gig on April 24th...slightly fucking excited!
You know your shit, dude! :^:
Big Bud is a legend and that is my fave atmospheric DnB album of all time!
For the guys who like the harder stuff, check out this mix of mine. It's from Nov of last year so isn't up on my MySpace (just set it up) but it's definitely my proudest moment thus far...I even manage my first double drop! Wootah!
Tracklist:
00:00 Break - Evil Twin [Symmetry]
06:38 D Kay & Sonic - Feature Creep [Brigand]
10:29 Concord Dawn (ft State of Mind) - Aces High [Uprising]
13:04 Silent Witness - Atlanta [Critical]
17:07 SKC - Butchery [Commercial Suicide]
20:28 Silent Witness & Break - Hollow [DNAudio]
25:13 Subfocus - Swamp Thing [Ram]
27:48 Concord Dawn - Man For All Seasons (Chris.SU & SKC remix) [Uprising]
31:52 Subfocus - Airplane [Ram]
34:48 Subfocus - Juno [Ram]
37:45 ill Skillz - Clownz [Metalheadz]
40:42 Culture Shock - The Bypass [Ram]
44:23 DJ Fresh - Nervous (Subfocus remix) [BBK]
48:03 Silent witness - California [Critical]
50:38 SKC - Alpha Centauri [Commercial Suicide]
54:19 D-Bridge vs D Kay - Nothing Is True [ExitVS]
58:47 Sabre - Language Barrier [Horizons]
1:03:14Drifter & Shanodin - Angel Eyes [Engine]