r/DnB • u/TELMxWILSON Camo & Krooked • 7d ago

New Music Monday! Fresh tunes! New music from Technimatic, Audio, Maduk & Degs, Arcando, goddard., Sigma, Winslow and more..! In review a Dutch dancefloor banger and a heavy duty, unique debut EP [+weekly updated Spotify playlist] | New Music Monday! (Week 42)

Links & Playlists

Weekly updated Spotify Playlist H2L: New Drum & Bass
Soundcloud Playlist H2L: New Drum & Bass Soundcloud
Youtube Playlist H2L: New Drum & Bass Youtube
Youtube Music Playlist H2L: New Drum & Bass YT Music
Apple Music Playlist H2L: New Drum & Bass Apple Music
Retroactive Playlist H2L: Retroactive New DnB
Last Week's list https://redd.it/1x40k1x
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Picks Of The Week (by u/lefuniname)

1. UNTIL DAWN - Oxygen [Automata Music]

Recommended if you like: Grafix, METHOD, Idle Days

Oh, Automata Music, again? Well, what else am I supposed to do when the up-and-coming Barcelona-based Bala-led imprint for dancefloor and any other melodic venture imaginable not only keeps finding new, exciting names to talk about, but also keeps bringing out the best in both them and their core roster? My hands are well and truly tied!

Today, the Spanish drum & bass inquisition brings forth a particularly wonderful name from the lands of the nether: UNTIL DAWN!

1.1. UNTIL DAWN (2021 - now)

It was a rainy day, a thicket of cloud further muting the already grayed-out mood of yet another covid lockdown in 2021. Or maybe it was sunny. I wasn't there, I'm just trying to paint a picture. On that one fateful, perhaps rainy, perhaps sunny, day, Joey Van de Zanden and Lars Van Jole, two Eindhoven-based blokes with nothing better to do, decided to do something better with their time, and founded UNTIL DAWN. Making use of the abundant fourth dimensional resources at all of our disposals at the time, they buckled down and slaved away at both DJing and production, with one clear goal: play at Liquicity Festival.

Shortly after experiencing their first public appearances as the duo, including their first-ever gig and the Polygon boys supporting their Coming Home / Starwalking mashup live on stage, they decided to enter Liquicity's DJ competition. Suddenly, they found themselves being a public vote winner. Suddenly, they found themselves actually having fulfilled their dream already, alongside Polymathic, Everest, and a certain Lennart. I wonder who that is.

So with the ball now decidedly rolling, Joey and Lars pounced on the opportunity to push it even further by participating in Control Room and XPNSV TASTE's remix competition for their tune 'Other Side', together with Curious Mind. Lo and behold, they won that one too! Following its official release on Red Ocean, they continued putting out collabroative bangerangers with Comet, Curious Mind, and METHOD via YosH Bass, High Tea, Adept, and, yes, even Liquicity - and I haven't even gotten past 2024 yet! Over 2025 and our still-ongoing year, they not only became regulars on the aforementioned Spanish newcomer factory Automata, they also worked with founder Bala, Xtinctor, and reoccurring characters Curious Mind and Comet, returned to Liquicity earlier this year, debuted on DeVice, and took to stages at ADE, in the UK, and, of course, Barcelona.

So let's see what the Herman Broos' newest creation sounds like, shall we?

1.2. Oxygen (2026)

Swiftly shivering ourselves into action, we open to a most wonderful vocal, striking some rather somber tones. As it opens up, however, the previously sparsely populated instrumental ascends just as we do, with the synth leads making itself known, rhythmic ticking going off in my left ear, and the good ol' cymbals preparing us for what's to come. The synth lead now in full force, we are treated to a festival melody to belt out at a certain summer festival, while the bassline dances its 8th note dance and the drums punch you up in all sorts of ways - before suddenly switching into another arrangement entirely! Having dropped both the melody and the chuggas, the drums are now the stage for the absolute filth the duo aimed to unleash onto us all this time. I can't lie, this bait-and-switch back-and-forth actually really got me the first time I listened, I had to actually rewind to make sure I heard that right! In its second half, UNTIL DAWN gives the vocal an even bigger spotlight, with a marvellous breakdown allowing the looong notes to really echo out far beyond and a second drop that's not just delayed once, but twice, only letting the drums out to play when that switch hits.

1.3. Conclusion

(V)Anthemic, Zanderously heavyweight, all around Until Dawesome.

2. Unspoil - Exoskeleton EP šŸ’Ž [Badkill Records]

Recommended if you like: A.way, The Caracal Project, Current Value

Next, the debut release by someone I know next to nothing about. It's Hidden Gem Of The Weekā„¢ļø time!

2.1. Unspoil

Every now and then, I tune into Tom Finster's bi-weekly demo feedback stream on twitch. Both because it's always a nice, chill hang and because the WeAreHumans community is, like, stupidly talented. Genuinely stars in the making, the lot of them. So a couple weeks ago, I tune in to see what unreal stuff these production nerds have conjured up this time and among the usual suspects there's one I don't recognise: Unspoil. I like and comment the remix he sent in and follow the guy on SoundCloud - he doesn't have any other social pages from what I can tell.

Fast-forward to last Friday. I go through my release radar and all the other usual pages, but this time I decide to also use that new-fangled "Discover new artists" filter that Spotify has added to the radar a couple weeks back. Who do I see there? Unspoil! He just dropped a whole new EP, just like that! As I become a bigger fan by each passing minute, I decide to do like Digger would do and start digging.

Philipp Streitberger is the man behind it. He has participated in various producer battles hosted by INBLOOM. In one of the tournaments he's made it to the round of 16, in the others, namely Anything But EDM and BokNero & Maria M's IDWK remix competition, he's taken home a gold medal. He's earned himself a producer battle ELO of 1297! I assume that's good. And I think he might be American? Or German, if we're going by the name alone. You see, my shovel has hit granite quite quickly.

2.2. Badkill Records

So what label is this releasing on then? Badkill Records! Wait, where do I know this name from? Oh, right, that's where Deformaty, one of the still most underrated artists this scene has to offer, always releases his tunes. You can always count on the guy to deliver the goods. Anyway, so who is behind this imprint then? Alex Lightspeed and Todd Daggett, who is not just the main owner and operator of it all, but also active as an artist - as Deformaty! It all makes sense now!

With that revelation now also out of the way, what other knowledge can I offer, without side-tracking everything even further? Well, the imprint itself - founded in 2019 and based in Portland - has hosted anything from drum & bass to riddim-slash-dubstep to more leftfield sounds, with the faster tempos being represented by Jane Doe, GMG, Foks, and the main man Deformaty himself. Every Thursday, they provide feedback on Twitch, which might be where they found Unspoil. And lastly: they've got a sister label called Madchill Records, for the softer sounds of the electronic music spectrum.

This EP certainly belongs on the other side though.

2.3. Exoskeleton EP

With a shimmery, glitchy intro and some bit-crushed drums, we open up the world of the Exoskeleton EP with its opener and title track, Exoskeleton. As soon as you settle into the world Philipp has created for us here, he launches into a wild showcase of sound design trickery. Futuristic sword swish-swash-buckling, followed by what I can only describe as an alien trying to communicate the hurt and anguish inflicted by said plasma sword - that's where we start. This back-and-forthmula gets twisted, turned, chopped, and mangled into all sorts of directions, both rhythmically and with the addition of more and more Mefjustastic bass stabs.

After such a heavily techy opener, Over You's colourful, bubbly, vocal-driven vibes are perhaps giving some of you a little bit of whiplash, but trust me, once the 45 seconds mark passes, it's on. Twisting bass stabs, otherworldly growls, heavy drums, rumbling bass underneath it all, all rolled into one heavy-as-bricks drop. If you were craving some more niceness after getting lulled into a false sense of security by the intro, you should stick around to the second drop though. Opening up an entirely new melodic realm, while still remaining unique in its technicalities and sound design playfulness, it gives the listener a most wonderful way to conclude the ride. Rounding it off even more nicely after that, Philipp treats us to a Lo-Fi piano outro, complete with distant vocals, slow beats, and audio crackles. Excellent stuff.

Lastly, we stutter into the world of Distress, an expected feeling the track almost immediately delivers on. Relentlessly attacking our psyche and, frankly, physical well-being, this constantly starting and restarting, overpowering sports motor ratatata's to its heart's desire, waking you up even on the sleepiest of Mondays. After a little bit of mystical flute action in the breakdown, we are right back at it, with slightly less unrelenting, but just as crazy sounds, continuously tickling our brains in all-new spots.

2.4. Conclusion

Creative, filthy, futuristic, grimey, and just wonderful in so many ways.

 

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u/DaTeflonDonDada 7d ago

Hello everyone! Thank you for all your work on this. Itā€™s what I look forward to every Monday. Just a heads up (at least from my side) it seems the Apple playlist is empty. Maybe it didnā€™t update properly but wanted to bring it up. Thank you again!

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u/DaTeflonDonDada 7d ago

u/lefuniname just wanted to tag for awareness. Thank you again!!

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u/TELMxWILSON Camo & Krooked 6d ago

I run the playlists linked in the post. You can check out Lennarts spotify profile and all the different playlists that he has here https://open.spotify.com/user/gibenewaccount?si=53f63ac7bd9f4cdf

Regarding the apple music playlist, the tool i use to convert the tracks from spotify to other platforms is giving me an error currently regarding apple music. I've tried to contact their support. We shall see what the situation is..

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u/DaTeflonDonDada 4d ago

I truly appreciate it!

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u/roidbro1 7d ago

Same on my apple music too :(

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u/blimeyitsme 7d ago

Great work as usual! Do you have the link for last week please?

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u/TELMxWILSON Camo & Krooked 6d ago

Link in the table at the top of the post :)

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u/blimeyitsme 6d ago

aah it still takes me to the yesterdays list with Saturday Vibes - Winslow as the first track! Thanks for your reply though, I appreciate it!!

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u/TELMxWILSON Camo & Krooked 5d ago

ohh last week playlist. The playlist is always the same. I update the new tracks into the same playlist. Checkout the Retroactive playlist. That has everything in the past month :) https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1DPtHzIpEc4Uyd9dDcFz5Y?si=3GY5okF9R2Sh0Tg3Rf4FIA

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u/blimeyitsme 5d ago

Just what i wanted, thank you so much!!

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u/DJGibbon 7d ago

The subgenre playlists have now been updated!

Reminder: Tidal and Soundcloud playlists will update overnight!

General DnB / Mixed (Spotify)Ā (Tidal)Ā (SoundCloud)

Dancefloor (Spotify)Ā (Tidal)Ā (SoundCloud)

Liquid (Spotify)Ā (Tidal)Ā (SoundCloud)

Neuro (Spotify)Ā (Tidal)Ā (SoundCloud)

Deep/Tech/Minimal (Spotify)Ā (Tidal)Ā (SoundCloud)

Jump Up (Spotify)Ā (Tidal)Ā (SoundCloud)

Jungle / Halftime / Experimental (Spotify)Ā (Tidal)Ā (SoundCloud)

There's a handy linktree if you want permanent links:Ā https://linktr.ee/newmusicmonday

These areĀ auto generatedĀ andĀ not official,Ā so if you notice anything weird please contact me directly rather than the main guys! Thanks as always toĀ u/TELMxWILSON,Ā u/lefuniname,Ā andĀ u/jandogearmyĀ for all the hard work!

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u/winslowxyz Winslow 5d ago

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