Big DNB Album Releases for 2011

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I'll start this thread just so old ones with dead youtube links don't keep popping up. Around here as well this is one of those genres where people will flirt with it a little bit....sure...but it doesn't usually get discussed much unless I'm spearheading the conversation or sometimes even force-feeding the conversation . So, I thought this would be a least a bit more of a bearable way to bring if forward.

I caught this off of Instra:mental on facebook, looks really solid:

http://www.beatsandbeyond.com/News/d-bridges-exit-recordings-to-release-mosaic-volume-1.html

D-Bridge’s Exit Recordings To Release Mosaic Volume 1
Tracklist
CD 1
1. Scuba - In_2
2. Stray - Pushed
3. Distance - Fading
4. dBridge - Forgot What I Needed to Forget
5. Synkro - Open Arms
6. dBridge - Rendezvous
7. Dan Harbanham - Nu Este Roze
8. dBridge - Decayed
9. Consequence - Splinter
10. ASC - Modular Concepts
11. Croms - Invisible Cities

CD 2
1. Commix - City Section
2. Indigo - Time
3. Mode - Stepping Stones
4. Instra:mental - Scene 3
5. Skeptical - Another World
6. Skream - Motorway
7. Genotype - Further Searching
8. Code 3 - Chasm
9. Abstract Elements - Essence of Time
10. System - Observation Point
11. Loxy & Resound - Vertigo

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ckp717t_xg[/youtube]
(interview background: Stray - Pushed)

Just some of the goodies:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olM7-d3f784[/youtube]
Genotype - Further Searching:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0awDKKBOXwI[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uM2chFnr3Y&feature=related[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyJmZCFFmm0[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpFPQCm_2As[/youtube]


I'll try to post more as I see more - not necessarily on this album but other developments that come into being throughout the year.

Other than that - just enjoy and stay posted .

I like Decayed, that's interesting.

I love d bridge and instra:mental they remind me abit of some Omni Trio
[youtube]http://[/youtube]
This is also a very nice sounding song by D bridge.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3pu_LYBYns[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1aS-hi7h38[/youtube]
thats the video i tried to post.

Prefer one step over to dubsteb myself.

Did this tune ever find a label yet? I know its been floating out on Youtube from hacked sets for quite a while now.

BTW, 2011 seems a bit sad so far, seems like the real peak of the deep/dark revival was back in 2008 and 2009 when guys like Loxy, Icicle, Nymfo, Spectrasoul, Proxima, and Sabre were really making it happen. Breakage was still making dark dnb and it was truly amazing stuff.Last year had a few good releases, but I'm not sure if things are falling back into a dip again? I got real excited last spring about Sabre's Wandering Journal EP, loved what he had on Youtube, but then I realized quickly that I didn't like the mixdowns, had a great ambiance and ideas but it feels like he scorched the mixes, since then it seems like things have been pretty dry.

I suppose I can never say never though - I *think* Rockwell's supposedly working on something new, Icicle is as well but... I think he might be moving more back to IDM and techno with it? I know I'd love to hear a Jubei album, if he does go that route.

Looking around I did just find this, a few good names I already knew (Mindmapper and Genotype), seems properly deep and classy - hopefully these tunes go somewhere on a full listen:
http://www.digital-tunes.net/releases/raise_the_bar_lp/

Have you heard of Silkie he's pretty good and the youtube user who posted it has all the best dubstep songs you can listen to in highest quality too.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EThnJsjBQtw&feature=feedu[/youtube]

Silkie's dubstep, I like that genre as well but I'm hoping to keep this thread somewhat true to its title.

Yeah, I have City Limits v1, still waiting for him to release another full length cd.

There is some great drum and bass out there you just gotta weed through a lot of the crap to find it. Dubstep is dying out as expect with any hybrid style that tries to mix in with dance/pop and trance. As for the darker side of DnB sadly this year hasn't produced much to be excited about yet, hopefully that changes because as much as I love true jungle and drum and bass there are always times when my mind needs to delve into the dark side to center out everything going on around me.

I've always gone for dubstep that hugs more dnb'ish motifs. Phaeleh is good for it, a lot of the crossovers like Current Value and Kryptic Minds bring a lot with them, Breakage did it ok for a while but then he got too commersh. Funny thing is now - you see guys like Skream who said they could never do dnb, doing dnb. That last cd I just posted has a Ruckspin track. I don't think I'd give up on dubstep just yet, but then again I think it will likely start chasing the deep dusky dub techno elements (the 1,3,7 chords, those hisses and fizzing like you're opening a can of pop - plenty of dnb artists have been on that for a while).

As for dark dnb, this is where I think the future really is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd5w2WRCnbM

I don't mean that in the videography, I mean in terms of the tone this particular tune and a few others on this cd are chasing (this is likely the best exmaple though IMO). I think the yet-to-be-done thing that will likely blow up next in dnb will be a very inky but phosphorescent feel, something that makes you feel like a very starry night sky is rippling in front of you, like the universe just winked at you, stuff that pulls on archetypes of... say old Gnosticism...tarot cards...pictures of ancient chambers in National Geographic, really pushing a deep and ancestral kind of energy as well as that midieval alchemical, stilted and Byzantine kind of stucture. The more inky and phosphorescent side of it is a bit like the tune I just shared but going deeper with it, stuff that's very night time but makes you think of all kinds of wild phosphorescent flora in Papua New Guinea, stuff that takes that image but microscopes and expounds on it in ways and with emotions that you may have never thought were humanly possible.

What kills me - lol - I've already written a few tunes like this that really nail what I want, the mixdowns just aren't working out right (and Soundcloud is NO help whatsoever).


I have a standard from 2008 that I tend to go back to when I'm getting disgusted with the new stuff - Loxy Live @ Darkroller 8/31/2008. Very specifically that set, not the 2009 one or any other. I think it's still posted. The first hour, especially between 48:00 and 61:00 is pure magic. Back between 1997 and 1999 I was a big fan of a guy in the US named Dj 3D, he had a very distinct personality to his dark dnb mixes, I missed that later because I, like I think you're saying as well, really like the exploratory aspect of dark. People used to complain "But its dark!" like that's supposed to automatically equal bad, I guess I never understood that mentality - to me it was stuff that had my mind racing across the universe and through unknown pockets of human history or the crevices of my own mind that I rarely ever had a chance to see - to me that's what I live for, probably why I'll likely be 40 driving a mini van with a wife rolling her eyes and thinking I'm immature or still trying to cling to my glory days, not that at all.

As for this year though, its still early and there are still a lot of fresh new names out there.

Dissident is one guy who I think will catch on more, his stuff is pretty interesting. A few others have been well touted - Ena, Kesa, Hybris, and on the Absys as well as that Broken Audio cd I posted a link to there's a guy who kind of blew up off of Shogun Audio's remix contest for Icicle's A Time To Remember, here's something he has on that broken audio cd that I thought was really interesting, techier dnb with a tech-trance flavor: take a listen to CRTN 1 by Amoss and Thorne.

I think for dnb its the naturalness of the flow, the way it slips more like real life and interesting environments rather than being something as metered or mechanical as most of the music out there. With that in mind you can almost bind anything to it and make it work.

Got something else. Icicle's got a full length release on Shogun Audio, don't know the date but the guy definitely rolls deep, I've always liked his taste in atmosphere and basslines:

http://www.undertheice.org/

Have the Icicle release - pretty good, lots of vocals for those who lean that way.

I've also been looking at some of the Fabric Live cds - picked up D-Bridge and Instra:mental as well as LTJ's 09' mix and Zero T's from last year. Additionally this year though, for July Goldie is scheduled for a Fabric Live 2CD as well. I like what he's been doing a lot lately so it should be hot. I'll post it when more press comes out on it.

Looks like this year might just be compilations? Looks like most people are taking a break from LP work . Oh well.

Something else that I just bought:
http://www.digital-tunes.net/releases/i ... book_vol_1

Really good, and I'm liking a lot of what Dub Phyzix and Skeptical are coming up with lately.

Also another really good one, although I notice digitunes has the names mismatched, like the Jubei remix of drowning man which is actually one audio line below what they have:
http://www.digital-tunes.net/releases/dream_thief_2