Disquiet is starting the year off right, digging up a juicy free drum and bass track, via syncopathicrecordings.com: Perhaps the title to “The Monk Tune” means that the string bass resounding midway through the seven-and-a-half-minute track was lifted from a Thelonious Monk song, but whatever the impetus for the name, [sub]’s effort shows estimable restraint, the… Read More Start The Year Off Right With Some Free Drum ‘n’ Bass
Loopmasters continues to put out some of the coolest sample libraries. Their latest is Coldcut Sound Science. Coldcut need no introduction, being some of the first and finest artists to successfully work with samples and loops to forge their own styles of modern hip hop and dance music, Matt Black and Jon More are responsible for… Read More New Coldcut Sample Library
Niladri Kumar’s Priority is an interesting new-age/space music track, and it’s got a really nice animated music video. Kumar plays the Zitar, and electric sitar, and the DnB tabla is kind of cool, too.
Plainaudio’s Cycom is back with his third release, Isotope. Description: Summer’s over – people start pulling out their winter coats – thick, rough and heavy, stuffed with fur and a bit of a smell of leather (‘Isotope’). The heating plants get ready for the raising demand that is to be expected (‘Distractions’), while elsewhere children… Read More Free Drum And Bass MP3s From Cycom
Charissa Saverio, aka DJ Rap is the latest in our series of Chicks that Mix – some of the exceptional women of electronic, dance and experimental electronic music. DJ Rap has been voted Shejay’s #1 female DJ in the world. She owns, records for, runs and A&Rs two labels Proper Talent and Improper Talent. She’s a producer, recording… Read More Chicks That Mix: DJ Rap
Peace Love Productions (PLP) is giving away four free sound kits formatted specifically for Intua’s BeatMaker iPhone app. Genres include Drum n Bass, Jungle, Downtempo, Hip Hop, Crunk, Electro, House, and Trance. Each Sound Kit contains a minimum of ten loops organized by genre and tempo. They are 16 bit stereo files in the .bmkz… Read More Free Sound Kits & Beat Packs For BeatMaker iPhone Application
I didn’t know Godzilla could dance like that.
Avant jazz guru Bill Laswell has created Method of Defiance, a new super group that marries drum and bass electronic beats with the improvisation of jazz musicians. Inamorata is possibly one of his most ambitious projects in a prolific career that has included producing Grammy winning albums and singles for Herbie Hancock – who makes… Read More Bill Laswell Forms Jazz / Drum and Bass Super Group
In preparation for the upcoming release Zen Conspiracy? by electronica/drum n bass artist Mashed Buddha, MusicDish has made his 4 track EP, Four Keys to Zen? available as a free download. The EP represents a new direction for Mashed Buddha, who’s orchestrated grooves have thus far lacked one thing – improvisation. Whereas debut album Subdue… Read More Free Drum And Bass MP3s From Mashed Buddha
The Emperor’s New Clothes, the latest release by Klute (UK producer Tom Withers), is a blistering two-cd collection of drum and bass & techno originals. Withers formerly was a drummer and vocalist in a punk band, and this rock background seems to inform his music. As Klute, his tracks explore the familiar drum and bass… Read More Klute – The Emperor’s New Clothes
