Stay ConnectedWelcome to the official Drum&BassArena Podcast, hosted by The Risky (founder of Drum&BassArena). Every week he selects the biggest upfront drum&bass tracks from the worldwide drum&bass scene. Plus there’s a weekly competition, classic tracks from the vaults and unsigned artists get an airing. Essential drum&bass listening!
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Highly rated new producer Soulpride and MC Rhymes team up to drop a fresh new Music Mafia mix for our next podcast. Buckle up tight for a rollercoaster ride through the realms of jump up.
B Cee guides you on a 60 minute journey through the latest sounds from the likes of Spearhead, Industry & Rubiks Records featuring artist such as Lomax, Hold Tight, Kubiks & Lenzman.
Early is not a word often used in the music industry, but early it had to be to catch 1Xtra's DJ of the year, Hype, before he disappeared off to Bordeaux, as he runs through the mixing and making of this chart topping, heavy weight mix album from Drum & Bass Arena. The mix includes exclusives such as Hazard's Busted (Hype special mix), TC Ft. Jakes Raising the Roof (Hype Special mix) and unreleased material with Lynx's Disco Dodo, Dillinja's Tunnel Grinder, Friction and Nu Balance's Robocop (Taxman Remix) along with the biggest and best tunes that define a huge year for Drum & Bass.
Head Honcho Mr Silver, owner and founder of Nemesis Recordings and Science Fiction Records (and also from one of the best duos in DnB: Accidental Heroes / Sonic & Silver) teams up with one of L.A.s rising stars of the DnB scene; MC Dino. Silver and Dino have been rocking clubs all across the California state and the L.A. area. This mix boasts plenty of unreleased music from the Nemesis Camp. Introducing new producers such as DJ Origin, Target, Audio Unit and many more...
Mutated Forms are certainly making their mark on the UK scene with a string of strong releases on labels such as Formation, Low Down Deep, World Of Drum & Bass & Zombie. Rolling out the next chapter in our weekly podcasts, the trio showcase their versatility alongside MC Coppa with a high-speed journey through their dance floor friendly sound from wobbly liquid through to techy jump up this crew have got it all.
Representing Brooklyn, NY, by way of the UK, Russell Knight and Edward Parker are currently signed exclusively to the Horizons Music Group. One of the leaders of the new skool they have been gaining major support from A-Listers such as Fabio, Grooverider, LTJ Bukem and Flight amongst others for a host of top-notch releases over the past year. Check out the Saburuko sounds for yourself on our latest D&B Arena Podcast.
After three and half years as a Swerve resident, Aaron Jay is about to launch a new label in the new year; ‘Influence Records’. The label will be showcasing a deeper side to the drum and bass spectrum whilst also pushing new artist from around the globe. Artists already signed to the label are studio partner Lynx (Soul:r, Creative Source), ICR from Hungary, Kjell (Creative Source) and new boy Brother. Other artists expected to grace the label are RawQ (New York), Mixmaster Doc (New York, 31 Records), Naibu (Paris, Creative Source), Soul Intent and Eveson (Creative Source, 31 Records).
Firmly at the forefront of Neurofunk's evolution, Phace is comprised of two long time friends Florian and Nicolas both twenty seven years of age, they hail from South-West Germany. Since forming in 1999, they have been dedicated, some would say addicted, to refining their unique sound. The very definition of cutting-edge music.
Since establishing Defcom Records in 1999 Kryptic Minds & Leon Switch have been at the forefront of the deeper & darker side of Drum & Bass, renowned for their consistently high quality output and unique sounds. Now in 2007, Defcom continues its quality string of releases and recently saw the release of the duo’s critically acclaimed debut LP, ‘Lost All Faith’. This breathtaking epic had everyone from Adam F to Paradox talking and was hailed as one of Drum & Bass’s defining albums and a future classic. Meanwhile Defcom’s fledgling sister label, Osiris, continues to go from strength to strength with new skool artists such as Sabre and Survival leading the charge. In this exclusive Drum & bass Arena Podcast Kryptic Minds & Leon Switch guide listeners on a journey through the Defcom & Osiris sound, showcasing forthcoming cuts from the labels alongside some of ‘Lost All Faith’s’ highlights and Defcoms biggest releases.
"F*ck off" heralds a new era for bounce records. It's the first release since signing Roughcut exclusively to the label and serves as a warning of things to come from the camp. This Podcast showcases Bounce, its diversity, energy and Roughcuts already impressive production credits. Bounce have plenty of new Roughcut and Foxy material lined up and with EP's due from Lomax and Roughcut along with a busy release schedule from sister labels; Jump, Deep and Bounce Digital. Expect big things from the Bounce Records crew in the future.
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