#90s drum and bass

[naotasmoon]

LTJ Bukem & MC Conrad @ Alsos, ATHENS (1996)

smashing it in the spaceship

[doggirlnarcolepsy]

Man fuck this capitalist hellhole. I'm packing my shit up and moving to a 90s Ambient Jungle/Drum n' Bass compilation YouTube thumbnail

[natsumipocket]

My new song 'Nectaria' is Out Now!!💿 (｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝‧₊˚ ⋅✧ ▶︎၊၊||၊|။||||||။၊|။

[thisisrealy2kok]

Various - Jungle Tekno 4 (Intelligence + Technology) (1994)

[arcadebroke]

[systemst91]

- 90s Cybercore PS1 mix - (Sample #1)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ebKCY4z0FGE

https://on.soundcloud.com/U7fYoRrdyPE4bxvB8

[disease]

I THINK I'M CRYSTALLIZED [DUB] GARBAGE x THE CRYSTAL METHOD [12" PROMO SINGLE, 1998]

[frumpydress]

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

I have seen the demon's face I have heard of her death place I fall down on my knees In praise of the... Horrible things that took her away

And death climbs up the steps one by one To give you the rose That's been burnt by her son

Point me to the sky above I can't get there on my own Walk me to the graveyard Dig up her bones

𝔐𝔦𝔰𝔣𝔦𝔱𝔰 – 𝔇𝔦𝔤 𝔘𝔭 ℌ𝔢𝔯 𝔅𝔬𝔫𝔢𝔰

[codyvondell]

Thrifted Y2K Fits + Illustrator & Photoshop 💫

[randomvarious]

1990s Drum n Bass Playlist

Back to the Sunday night electronic playlist-posting mines for the next good while. This week I've got a little update to my 90s drum n bass playlist, with something that's very dark and something that's much, much lighter.

The dark one comes courtesy of a guy from the UK called Ambush, whose career only consisted of a couple 12-inches and an album between '96 and '98, and is not to be confused with *The Ambush,* which is an alias of German electronic music legend Oliver Lieb. Ambush made his debut with a 12-inch called Gain on Possible Records, a dark dnb label that was founded by Mick Harris, who was the former drummer in famed death metal band Napalm Death.

Taking up the A-side on Gain is a tune called "Tracking," which would later find its way onto a Possible double-disc comp called Sonics Everywhere in 1997. "Tracking" is this steadily burrowing piece of filthy subterranean grime, with this constant no-give snare hitting on every other beat while a simply demonic, distorted sub-bassline rumbles mercilessly beneath it 😈; potential theme music for the single-most evil entity in the universe. Only has ~1,100 plays on Spotify.

And for the yang to "Tracking"'s Yin, we have something pretty dang unique. UK future jazz-funk band RSL are not known for making drum n bass, but it appears that, three years prior to their debut release, they first appeared on a South African compilation in 1998 called ReRooted: Beatz From Da Ground Up, with "Elungelo." This is a song that appears to be sampling soulful traditional African folk vocals and then pairs them with beats—first, a nice and chill-grooved, bare-bones trip hop one, and then a sudden shift to dnb. And to be honest, I kinda dig the trip-hoppy portions more on this one, but if something has a considerable amount of drum n bass on it, then it automatically gets categorized as a dnb tune; those are just the rules. Around 9,100 plays.

Ambush - "Tracking" RSL - "Elungelo"

And for the YouTube version of this update, I was able to add those two songs to it too, but I also added another one that can't be found on Spotify as well. And this is another dark one, from a master of those dark dnb arts himself, Technical Itch. In '98, this Birmingham, UK native applied his craft with a remix of Manchester, UK act Perfect Combination's "Remember." Scratchy and blown-out snares, wormy bass squelching, and an occasional eerie synth to remind you where you are, which is a place that you really need to escape from, pronto 😰. This remix has appeared on a double-12-inch called Partisan Volume One, one of the first releases in the catalog of Partisan, an ultimately short-lived label that was launched after a group of staffers acrimoniously split from dnb juggernaut Moving Shadow. Song has a little over 4,800 plays on YouTube across a few different uploads.

Perfect Combination - "Remember (Technical Itch Remix)"

And this playlist is on YouTube Music too.

So this update now brings us to 13 songs that total 84 minutes on Spotify, but over on YouTube, we're now at 30 songs that total 191 minutes! There's just so much more great, obscure 90s dnb in that YouTube one, including a handful of cuts from a compilation that's not even listed on Discogs called Now What Kind of Music Do You Call That?

And if you want something shorter, I've also got a couple dnb playlists that are specific to a certain year from the 1990s:

1997 Drum n Bass: YouTube / YouTube Music 1998 Drum n Bass: YouTube / YouTube Music

Next week, some breakbeat!

Enjoy!

More to come, eventually. Stay tuned!

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[thegirlintheblackdress]

Young Carcass

[chelseajackarmy]

[mugenfinder]

The Amiba-style Drum and Bass Break

[thisisrealy2kok]

Technical Itch - Generation/Viking (1999)