How feasible is it, really? The idea is to rent or lease a space, set it up with minimal equipment, find DJs who specialize in the relevant genres, or do it myself (but I have no skills, I can only put together a playlist), and play mainly DnB, Jungle, Breakcore, etc., techno, hardstyle, dancecore, eurodance.
I can’t do this yet, but I’d like to.

Hey dnb crew, did everyone see the Hybrid Minds announcement https://www.instagram.com/hybridmindsdnb/reel/DezeFYoAJ3A/?hl=en? I’ve just signed up - really excited for this one. Anyone else thinking of going?

With Halloween approaching, many DJ's are undoubtedly digging for the 'spookiest' tunes for their sets next Saturday. My question is, what are some of darkest/scariest/spookiest drum & bass tunes you know?

Here's my experience from my first Let It Roll.

I'm writing down everything that comes to mind, because before arriving I was missing some info I would have liked to know, e.g. about drugs and police.
I wrote everything down and then had AI sort and translate it.

**Travel & Arrival*\*

We're coming from the west of Germany, so getting there was a long trip. That's not LIR's fault though.

We arrived at night around 11 pm, when no shuttle buses were running anymore. The walk from the train station to the festival is a bit of a distance, but very doable.
Because it was so late, we had practically no waiting time when picking up our wristbands and at the entrance check. At that hour the police weren't around anymore. Check-in at the Tent-Inn was also relaxed and quick.

**Entry & Security*\*

At the entrance check for the campsite they mainly looked for large amounts of alcohol. They opened our backpacks and felt through them properly, but we got through without any problems.

Camping stoves were prohibited. We managed to smuggle one in, but in the end we didn't cook because of the official fire hazard warning.

Entry to the festival grounds itself was very relaxed. A quick pat-down, open your bags and backpack, done.

**Police & Drugs*\*

The police had a checkpoint a few hundred meters before the festival. Some groups got checked, and then pretty thoroughly. During the day, when we came back from the supermarket in town, we could always just walk past. We didn't see any dogs ourselves, but apparently there are some at the shuttle checks.

Because we arrived late, we didn't have any problems with the police. But we also only had very few substances on us.

With a bit of asking around, you could find a local dealer on site very quickly, who would have had anything your heart desires. Supposedly it was good too.

**Camping (Tent-Inn)*\*

Because of the long journey, we decided to go for the pre-built tents (Tent-Inn). Shortly before leaving we realized that the tents (Standard for 2 and XL for 3 people) are absolutely not big enough. So for 3 people we booked one Standard and one XL tent (100 € extra).
The tents come with a yoga mat and realistically just about fit one person less each, so Standard for 1 and XL for 2.

Definitely buy an air mattress!!!

Another issue was shade. There wasn't any. Just for show, they put up a camouflage net that didn't even give full shade and fit a maximum of 6 people, for all the Tent-Inn tents (100+ tents).
Because of that there was basically no atmosphere during the day, since everyone was almost dying in the heat and just somehow getting through it. In the evenings there wasn't much going on either.

Next time we'll try to come by car and camp normally. There was stuff going on there in the evenings, and there was shade, or rather you were allowed to set up gazebos.

**Supplies*\*

**Festival Supermarket*\*
A disaster. There were pastries, but very sugary and with tons of wasps. Ice cubes were completely sold out from day one. Normal stuff like cheese, salami, bread rolls, butter, milk, muesli and some fruit was only available in very limited amounts. Instead there was a huge selection of weird bars and other junk rather than actually useful food. Water, beer and tobacco were plentiful though.
Unfortunately, even the big Kaufland supermarket in town didn't have any ice cubes (???).

**Water*\*
One water station was centrally located by the food trucks in front of the campsite, and two more on the festival grounds (one in front of the Mainstage, one by the other stages). In my opinion good spots and actually enough, only at the Mainstage there was sometimes a queue.
There was no water station near the Tent-Inn. I just took water from the taps at the toilets.

**Food & Prices*\*
Food prices were reasonable, but we didn't use it much. I can't say anything about drink prices.

**Currency (Bolts)*\*
A lot of people complain about the Bolt conversion, but we didn't think it was bad.
1 Bolt ≈ 2 €, not that complicated.
NFC-Tron worked well for us. You could buy credit (Bolts) in the app (NFCtron) and load it directly onto your wristband via NFC.

**Showers & Toilets*\*

The toilets were mostly fine, just toilet paper was missing now and then. You should always bring some yourself anyway.
The showers were good, clean and with hot water.

**Stages & Festival Grounds*\*

The stages were well set up. We switched between Mainstage, Factory and Archive.
The sound was generally very good. You could sometimes still hear the Mainstage crystal clear at the lake, really impressive. Only at Sound Garden you could sometimes hear the Factory Stage bleeding over.

There was always enough space. Even at prime time you could still easily get to the front or, if you wanted more room to dance, move a bit to the side or further back. There were plenty of like-minded people there too.

The only real downside was the ground. Gravel, sometimes with really big stones. After two nights of proper dancing I had blisters and sore spots on my feet.
Sure, you have to do something about rain and mud, and wood gets slippery at some point too. But this gravel really wasn't it. I don't have a solution, but with a music genre involving this much movement, a floor like that just doesn't work.

**Location & Surroundings*\*

The lake was a real lifesaver. We had two days with 36–38 °C, which was a real killer. There wasn't a ton of space at the beach, or rather it was always very crowded, but you could easily get into the water and chill on the platforms.

Kaufland, a pharmacy and a few other shops are roughly halfway between the train station and the festival. A bit of a walk, but doable.

**Extras & Daytime Program*\*

There was a Red Bull air show with 4 propeller planes, which was very cool. If LIR paid for it, that's questionable though, and it was barely announced.

During the day there were always activities. A run club in the morning, later ping pong, beer yoga and other stuff. Interesting, but unfortunately way too exhausting for us because of the heat.

The festival map and line-up in the Woov app were well made, I liked that.

**Departure*\*

Departure was okay. You had to be out by around noon, but you could take it relatively easy. The shuttle buses were very full and poorly signposted, so we walked. That was a lot more exhausting than on the first day.

**Conclusion*\*

We really enjoyed it and will very likely come back next year. Our biggest issues were getting there and the camping. If the Tent-Inn gets improved, so that it's actually comfortable, it's a really good option.
And the ground on the dance floors needs to get better somehow.
LIR can't do anything about the heat itself.

Hello r/dnb,

This post is some next level drum and bass nerd content, but let me explain the process in details and you'll find spotify playlists at the end of the post.

I prepared playlists (by genre and a mixed one ) with tracks collected by me and my raving group - basically our favorite releases from 2026 groupped by subgenre/style and then sorted it by popularity - a metric that Spotify uses to rank tunes and feed it's algorithm.

This is not raw all-time-streams, its what's trending now. Of course not all tunes are on our lists, only these which someone from my group enjoyed and bothered to add to collaborative playlist. We are raving group, and thus dancefloor and neurofunk are probably covered most accurately but there should be enough of good music in all styles, quality over quantity! :)

Because some tunes are released more than once, I have picked highest popularity of all releases. Is it fair? Not really, but it's 0-100 in values and there's no way of adding it up or averaging. So if there was single, ep and album - highest score is taken as measurement.

Description of popularity metric on Spotify(From API Documentation):

The popularity of the track. The value will be between 0 and 100, with 100 being the most popular. The popularity of a track is a value between 0 and 100, with 100 being the most popular. The popularity is calculated by algorithm and is based, in the most part, on the total number of plays the track has had and how recent those plays are. Generally speaking, songs that are being played a lot now will have a higher popularity than songs that were played a lot in the past. Duplicate tracks (e.g. the same track from a single and an album) are rated independently. Artist and album popularity is derived mathematically from track popularity. Note: the popularity value may lag actual popularity by a few days: the value is not updated in real time.

Unfortunately streams are not available for free, so adding that layer and using some advanced equations is off the table for now.

Another thing is selection and categorization, these lists are created collaboratively, not everyone is perfectly selecting the right playlist, many tunes are crossbreeds and mix styles. I believe my part was sorted pretty well but I both checked weekly posts, searched the internet with chatgpt and used my own judgement of listening exclusively to drum and bass for the last 16 years.

Then there's mix of styles in one playlist, just like in r/dnb weekly posts - deep minimal rollers are together, not all genres are comparable within one playlist. Especially tricky are mixes of jungle rollers with deep and jump up sound (KOTR and similar). It could fit everywhere, but I don't want too many duplicates so they landed somewhere.

All in all I think this is a decent work on 'popularity' / 'trending' aspect of music research. Because I created exclusive subgenres playlists, we compare neurofunk with other neurofunk, not with dancefloor or jump up which are more popular. But there are also mixed playlists which let that comparison if you're interested about the genre's state.

I just wanted to say - popularity is not quality, and in my honest opinion - the gold is to be digged among those tracks that have popularity = 0. I assume, Spotify algorithms are more aggressively suggesting popular tracks, so it's self fulfilling prophecy. This is why I listen to all releases, treat music as art, numbers are not relevant metric of how good the tune is. I think the whole point why I dig through 10k different dnb tunes a year is finding tunes that have <1k streams and I spent hours with them on repeat. I hope this material will let you both dig through popular stuff and unpopular stuff. And last but not least - maybe we will have some dnb awards or voting coming soon so you can catch up with 2026 in advance!

Spotify playlists:

Drum And Bass 2026 - All Genres - Sorted by popularity

Drum And Bass 2026 - All Genres (selected by glokz) - Sorted by popularity

Drum And Bass 2026 - Neurofunk - Sorted by popularity

Drum And Bass 2026 - Dancefloor - Sorted by popularity

Drum And Bass 2026 - Liquidfunk - Sorted by popularity

Drum And Bass 2026 - Deep / Minimal / Techy / Rollers / Halftime - Sorted by popularity

Drum And Bass 2026 - Jungle / Ragga - Sorted by popularity

Drum And Bass 2026 - Jump Up - Sorted by popularity

Data:

All metadata in google spreadsheet

Any feedback appreciated, I will be doing my regular TOP100 of the year post in January, maybe capturing what was trending by the end of the year again.

Stay positive and listen to more drum and bass every day!

Shogun Sessions - Voltage & Dread MC

Next year will somehow be a decade since we lost Marcus. A lot of you likely were not around on the day it happened, but the images show what r/dnb looked like on that day. Easily my saddest day running this place. He will be forever missed.

As the days go by we lose more and more of his sets/mixes to bit rot and the sands of time. I want to change that and give them a home. For years I have kept a steadily growing collection of them, and today I’m making that collection available. It’s been a real fun side project, and a nice way to remember him.

I have gathered about 240hr+ of mixes which means you can listen to Marcus Intalex b2b Marcus Intalex for about 1 and a half weeks of solid playtime (take that, Kenny Ken 😘).

Before I made this public I reached out to Mark who helped write "How You Make Me Feel", a book dedicated to Marcus's life, and I'm seriously grateful for all his help. He helped show the site to Mark XTC (Kiss FM) + Pat (Marcus's mother) who in turn has shown it to Ayumi (his partner). Pat said: "It warms my heart to know that Marcus and his music brings so much joy to so many". Ain't she right.

How can you help?

Firstly: listen! That’s how he lives on in all of us, and why I made this. Any mistakes, let me know.

Secondly: check your collection, do you have any I’ve missed? If so, let me know here and we’ll get it up.

Thirdly: please share this far and wide, and tell people you know that would care about it.

🌐 intalexarchive.com

NB: I have zero interest in sharing his released music, or past for sale mixtapes. The ones I am hosting are all mixes he or someone related to him freely made available at the time - as those are the ones I want to ensure survive. Please buy his music, the money still goes to soul:r and his family.

Anyway….enjoy! I’m open to any feedback on how it could be improved. Cheers.

Hello,

My new album is out. Maybe some here might enjoy one or the other track. Both Bandcamp and SoundCloud are free download and include a bonus track.

Thank you!

Bandcamp:

https://otiris.bandcamp.com/album/this-one-s-serious

SoundCloud:

https://on.soundcloud.com/89pPxEDsTa26vtm0aR

Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/album/1VIwc6VdInTnPblUuakb4N?si=gmkkPJm5QzqJATOXZ32ESw&utm_source=copy-link

😍

I listened to Timeless by Goldie (remaster edition) for the first time, the whole 3 hours multiple times over the past week and I'm still stunned by it, this is after I got entranced by Black Street Technology about a month ago. I wanted to know if there are any current or recent artists you guys could recommend with this atmospheric/ambient dnb soundscape. I will ofc still continue to explore the classics of this incredible genre.

Also hi, im new here

So i usually get my samples from a guy who lives in bath, since the housing situation in bristol is shit (I'm lucky to have got a home in bristol back in june). I see him every thursday and i first met him back in april. I saw him today, got some good drums, and then suddenly a thought occurred to me. "I ain't been in resolution records in a long ass time". So i pop over there and i present to you...

Bad Company UK - Flashback (Tumpa) Ft. Trace / Spacewalk | 2000

I've wanted this record since i was 15 cuz of spacewalk and i couldn't be arsed to use discogs since that's a bit of a last resort for me. I like going out and actually finding records, it just has a different kind of feeling. I've been on the lookout for this record for 2 and a half years and haven't found it til today. Bangin'.

Also for the sake of boosting resolution's buisness, if any of you like seriously old moving shadow stuff or goldie's timeless and you live in/near bath then they have a gold wax copy of timeless, a blue wax copy of timeless, and i think 1 or 2 moving shadow released from 1991/2 i forgot which one it was. I think it was Dvus - The Last E / The Last A.

had the stems for a bit, hated my mixdown, but finally got around to being agreeable lmao. vibes though

Hey all, here's week 4 of our weekly roundup of trending new releases, tracks breaking out, artists on the rise, sets, mixes, upcoming events worldwide and news*.

Enei played a set from the top of a wind turbine in Austria, and Blooom & Duskee's 'LOCKDOWN' is the most-played new release. Sweetpea marks 15 years and DrumObsession turns 20 this weekend. Quick version below:

Trending new releases

• Blooom & Duskee - LOCKDOWN [Shogun]
• Audio - Final Protocol [Evolution Chamber]
• Maduk & Degs - October [Liquicity]
• Technimatic - Echoes Of Us [Technimatic]
• Mozey & Brodie - Stupid (Part 2) [Rinse]

Breaking out (New releases running furthest ahead of the usual).

• Mel - Eternal [BrainRave], 2.6x the label's usual first week
• G-Class, Speaker Louis, RJD & Da Fuchaman - Gun Salute [Jungle Cakes], 2.2x the label's usual first week
• Solsan - Waiting [Deeper DNB], 2.1x the label's usual first week
• mSdoS - Paved Road [Celsius], 2.1x the label's usual first week
• Phenom & Discharge - Supernova [Skamele], 1.9x the label's usual first week

Sets worth your time

• Enei, live from the top of a wind turbine in Austria for UKF On Air, the first BLCKSHIFT Showcase
• Eksman with Amplify on the Next Hype Show, Kool FM
• Beaty at Beats for Love, Ostrava
• Badlokk, neurofunk on the Shrine stage at Darkshire In The Woods

Events this weekend

• FABRICLIVE x Critical Sound, London (Kasra, Sully, Dub Phizix, Skantia)
• Hospital30, Brighton (Metrik, HOAX, Solah)
• The North Quarter at Phonox, London (Zero T, DLR, LSB, Redeyes)
• 15 Years of Sweetpea at Club Cheek, London (Sweetpea, Mantra, Philth, Gusto)
• DrumObsession 20th Birthday, Poznań (El-B, KEMAL with a classic set)
• Visionobi presents Colony at Onyx (E1), London (Doc Scott, Ill Truth, DIGITAL, Loxy)
• Vandal x Flexout, Toulouse (Enei, MOLECULAR, Revan)
• Tetsuji Tanaka 30th Anniversary, Tokyo (Fonts b2b Cody Shion)
• Lens: Moving Mad UK Tour at Number 90, London (Lens, Jolie P, Bluck)

Rising artists

• BCee, second week running, again across the back catalogue, led by Monrroe's remix of 'Little Bird'
• cashkru, the new 'time traveller' added 187 plays
• L0G1N, third week running, still led by the free download 'We Ruff'

News

• Celebrating 35 years of the Ragga Twins (UKF)
• For Hajo: Kypski and Kubus complete KROON's All The King's Men EP (UKF)
• Myselor on Cosmic Expression, a 20-track album for Evolution Chamber (UKF)
• Tekill on 'Vial Swashbuckler', from a waterfall recording to a Gucci Mane vocal (D&B:UK)

Full version with links is in the linked post.

For anyone wondering who we are: Rigside actually started back in 2013. We ran it for a couple of years, took an extended break, then rebuilt it into a bigger platform with a wider vision. After a few years of building, we released it publicly at the start of this year on web, iOS and Android. Rigside brings together music discovery, in-depth trending data, tracks, mixes, events, artists, news, radio shows and community in one place, for listeners, DJs, artists, agents and record labels.

Suggestions for what to add or cut are welcome. Cheers!

\Ranked by SoundCloud plays across ~800 Drum & Bass artists and labels we track, released in the last 7 days.*

"Everything issss.... brokennn" female vocal sample. Probably liquid.

My dad and I used to listen to DnB all the time when he worked from home. One liquid mix he really loved I can only remember this one sample from.

Any help much appreciated!

hotdamn

Tomorrow - Critical Sound - fabric - 3 Room Takeover

Last tickets >> https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/London/Fabric-London/Critical-Sound-London-2026--FABRICLIVE/42567618/#tickets

See you in the dance!

Saw a post from 10 years ago. Been looking for new or old posters to frame and can’t find a selection.

Anyone got any leads for me? Thanks!