Bei unserer Residents-Night in der villaWuller letztes Jahr im April habe ich im Warmup gespielt und dabei auch die Record-Taste getätigt. Garniert mit ein paar Klassikern kommt die 22. Ausgabe des Boom Tschak-Podcasts mit einem knapp einstündigen Querschnitt aus Lieblings-Tracks und dem angesagte Drum’n’Bass der Stunde.
Out of the Dark is my drum´n´bass-mix for all the survivors out there. Vibes, atmosphere, flow and sonic storytelling that can lift you up, recharge you and give you a positive outlook. At least that´s what it does for me.
2018 was another tough year for me and I didn´t manage to release even one mix. I had started compiling tracklists for four very different concepts though. The first I chose to record now is this atmospheric and emotional selection of tracks that I played out, (re-) listened or danced to in 2018. A bit like a diary because almost every track triggers a specific memory.
My mission: Leave hard, cold, dark and even dubby stuff out. Capture that classic futuristic soul and melancholy vibe that drum´n´bass always championed. Also: Spread positive vibes overall while avoiding cheesiness.
I always try to achieve what I think „the art of the mix“ demands and I´m quite satisfied with the result. Carefully crafted mixes are getting harder to come by – this is one. Mixed live on Serato control vinyls and an Ecler HAK320.
Tracklist
01 L-Side – The Gentleman (4Marcus) [unreleased] 02 Spirit – Interval [Dispatch] 03 Marcus Intalex – Step Forward [Soul:R] 04 Seba – Time Will Tell [Spearhead Records] 05 LSB & DRS – New Day [Footnotes] 06 LSB – Missing You (feat. Tyler Daley & DRS) [Soul:R] 07 Adam F – Circles (dRamatic & dbAudio Unofficial Remix) [unofficial] 08 Jonny L – In A Jungle (BCee Rmx) [Future Retro] 09 Chimpo, DRS, Slay, Ragoloco – No Trust [Box N Lock] 10 Calibre – Makes me [Signature] 11 T.R.A.C. – Step Tune (feat. Random Movement & Adrienne Richards) [V-Recordings] 12 Phaction – Should Have Known [C.I.A.] 13 Blu Mar Ten – Keep It Together (feat. Robert Manos – Calibre Rmx) [BMT] > tease: DBridge – True Romance [Metalheadz] 15 BCee – More Than Words (feat. Charlotte Haining – Seba Rmx) [Spearhead Records] 16 Rockwell – User [Shogun Audio] 17 Seba – Why Can’t This End [Spearhead Records] 18 Synkro – Summer Blues [Blackout Music] 19 Seba & Robert Manos – Maschine [Metalheadz] 20 Jubei & Marcus Intalex – Fanny´s Ya Aunt [Metalheadz] 21 Ivy Lab – Twenty Questions [Critical] 22 Stray – Queen [Exit] 23 Doc Scott – Tokyo Dawn [Looking Good Records] 24 Source Direct – Secret Liaisons [Good Looking Records] 25 Tim Reaper & Drumlinezz – Deep Into Space & Back [Western Lore]
https://www.mjusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/header_logo.gif00myomhttps://www.mjusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/header_logo.gifmyom2019-02-23 10:56:372021-01-25 09:29:45Myom – Out of the Dark (Boom Tschak #21)
This set is a dancefloor-oriented selection of what I liked to play in the club throughout 2017. Stylistically diverse and covering many subgenres, it´s Drum´n´Bass at its finest, so just let it flow and take you places 🙂 Expect hard steppers, heavy bangers, rolling breaks, euphoric anthems and also deep and atmospheric tunes.
In a recent online discussion about „the art of the mix“, Doc Scott agreed with my philosophy, that it is all about the effort you put into the selection, which two tracks you combine into a third and how you arrange the whole set. So with 40 tracks in 90 minutes, you can expect my typical long doubles, crazy switches and a little wizardry 😉 Recorded live with Serato Scratch vinyl and the trustworthy Ecler 320.
01 Dub Phizix – (Right I know I’m gonna get shedded this weekend so let me eat some) Spinach [Exit]
02 Enei – Wolfpack [Critical]
03 Break & Total Science – Betamax [Symmetry Recordings]
04 Zere – Drop Sound [DSCI4]
05 S.P.Y. – Soldiers [Hospital]
06 Dub Motion – It Can Hurt You [Dubz Audio]
07 Need For Mirrors – Hurts [Full Cycle]
08 Dimension – UK [MTA]
09 Kiril – No Fightin´ [Critical]
10 QZB – Apollo [Critical]
11 Bungle – Cocooned [31 Recordings]
12 Nymfo & Phase – Beautiful Suicide feat. Sense MC [Dispatch]
13 Survival – Original Silencer 2017 [Dispatch]
14 Nucleus & Paradox – 12 Bits (Mako’s Breakout Rmx) [Metalheadz]
15 Serum – Phenomenon [Philly Blunt]
16 Total Science, Digital, Spirit – Rumble [C.I.A v Phantom Audio]
17 Need for Mirros – Puff N Stuff [Full Cycle]
18 Spirit – Think [Inneractive]
19 Scott Allen – Unite [Soul Deep Exclusives]
20 Muffler – Snowflakes [Unique Music Records]
21 Metrik – We Got It (S.P.Y. Remix) [Hospital]
22 Lewis James – Your Love Is A Power (feat. DanDansK) [Astrophonica]
23 Mikal – Musical Rush [Metalheadz]
24 Homemade Weapons – Ironhead [Samurai]
26 Serum – Redeemer [31 Recordings]
27 J Kenzo – Sykura [31 Recordings]
28 Serum, L-Side – World of Jungle Music feat. David Boomah [Philly Blunt]
29 Ulterior Motive – Inta National VIP [Metalheadz]
30 Alix Perez – The Raven [1985 Music]
31 Lynx – Bean Stash [Detail Recordings]
32 Digital – Crater Face [Function Records]
33 Dom & Roland – Through the Rays [Metalheadz]
34 Spirit – Interstate [Ingredients]
35 Bungle – Under Threshold [Dirty Hole Music]
36 Klute – Soul Boy [Commercial Suicide]
36 Digital – Sun Bites (feat. Villem) [Metalheadz]
37 Klute – Game Is Over (feat. Robert Manos) [Commercial Suicide]
38 LSB – Losing You [Soul:R]
39 Marc System – Dissolve [Exit]
40 Marcus Intalex – Refreshed [Soul:R]
This mix is an 80+ minute exploration into the fusion of drum´n´bass with dub techno & dub. It´s more of a deep flowing, laid-back affair at 170bpm to cool off to. Remedy yourself with a dose of sub bass and chill atmospheres. Listen closely to discover a rare facet of drum´n´bass music.
I try to follow a clear concept with all the mixes that I put out there and I´ve done quite a few that explored the connection of dub and drum´n´bass. The common influence is obvious since jungle started using reggae basslines and dub production techniques 25 years ago, which spawned all sorts of obvious and less obvious connections.
But it is rare that dnb productions take an inspiration from what techno did with dub since the 90s. Probably timing was an issue too: Dub techno became unpopular just a little while before the explosion of dubstep became the major influence for dnb artists, who experimented with more minimalistic structures and room for sounds. As a result a certain flavour of halfstep and autonomic dnb became an interesting playground for innovation in the late 2000s, but it had little to do with dub techno.
So I searched for tracks at around 170 bpm that deliver a certain sound: Not too dark, negative or aggressive, but not too much reggae-warmth either, rather a digital cool. Tracks also had to shift their focus away from heavy beats to the dub elements but also not fall into the halftime dub area. So this mix sits somewhere in between the minimal dnb scene, that still uses typical dnb beats and the ambient scene that has abandoned beats completly.
I never was and probably never will be a big techno fan in general, which means I only listen to a very small fraction of what´s out there, so my observations might be flawed. But I´ve always liked the Berlin-centered dub techno scene around the Hard Wax store, producers Ernestus and von Oswald with their many aliases (Rhythm & Sound, Basic Channel…) and labels like Thinner and Scape. Today in drum´n´bass we have Samurai Music Group in Berlin, which incorporates influences of this particular sound in their releases, but mostly explores very dark atmospheres. A more fitting output between techno and dnb comes via the Hidden Hawaii label. Nordlabel, that is featured with tracks by Dissident, is also from Berlin.
In its entirety not all the 85 minutes are dub techno influenced, but most of it is and it all comes together nicely, I think. If you know any interesting dub techno-influenced tracks at 170 bpm that I missed, let me know!
Tracklist:
01 Nether – Sunset Dub [Cylon]
02 Felix K – Flowers of Destruction #4 [Hidden Hawaii]
03 Dissident – H2Oil [Pinecone Moonshine]
04 DB 1 – Vanguard [Hidden Hawaii]
05 Dissident – Visible Spot [Nordlabel]
06 Nether – Glacial Dub [Space Cadets]
07 Martsman – Static [Hidden Hawaii]
08 Nether – Dimensional Space Jazz [Deep Soul Music]
09 Overlook – Travelling Without Moving [UVB-76 Music]
10 Elemnt – Circle of Light #2 [Hidden Hawaii]
11 Dissident – Solvent 1 [Nordlabel]
12 Overlook – Clouds [31 Recordings]
13 Pessimist – The Woods [Samurai]
14 Felix K – Flowers of Destruction #2 [Hidden Hawaii]
15 dBridge – Trinity Ville [Cylon]
16 Clarity – Fog [Samurai]
17 Dissident & Cyberworm – Octoplane [Delta 9]
18 Flxk1 / Wan 2 – A1 [Hidden Hawaii]
19 Theory – Babylon Dem (Dubmonger´s The Drum Machine Museum Rmx) [Translation]
20 Dissident & Cyberworm – Tusk [Kos.Mos Music]
21 Loxy – Politicians [Soundium]
22 Calibre – Blackhole Dub [Signature]
23 Totally Unknown Artist – Tierdrub (Dominic Ridgway) [—]
24 Nether – Deep Echo [31 Records]
25 Dubmonger – Radiowaves [Dubmonger]
26 Morphy – Myrrh Dub [—]
This is my goodbye mix to the summer of 2016 and inspired by the amazing time we had at Sun & Bass. It´s Drum and Bass with one foot in the Jungle and atmospheric, positive vibes. A flow of history-ladden sounds, samples and breaks in their updated 2016-version. I compiled it quite spontaneously and I´m still amazed, how it all just fell into place.
From 160 bpm it steadily builds up to 170 bpm and back again. It all starts in a deep dubby cave, where Crypticz & Itoa let their synths bubble from the ceiling. Then Dead Man´s Chest´s washed-out retro sounds flush you out into the open jungle, where Chimpo & Ticklish throw in some Funk & Hip-Hop samples for a good party vibe, before things steadily build up for an epic and heavy climax with Intalex´ Jupiter. Soulful sounds by Total Science and Djrum calm it all down again and the tempo slows back down back to where it all began and everything ends with reminiscences of the 90s.
https://www.mjusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/header_logo.gif00myomhttps://www.mjusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/header_logo.gifmyom2016-10-01 15:40:002021-01-25 09:31:17Myom – There and Back Again. A Jungle Tale (Boom Tschak #18)
Heavy heavy, heavy! In seinem neuen Mix verarbeitet Myom einige seiner Drum´n´-Bass-Favoriten aus 2015. Die Auswahl startet mit einigen gigantischen Halfstep-Nummern, arbeitet sich dann durch einige Slow/Fast-Stücke um dann in einem Breakbeat-Sturm aufzugehen, der sich dann wieder beruhigt.
Mit 23 Stücken in gut 45 Minuten ist die Session sehr abwschslungsreich und es finden sich jede Menge interessante Neu-Kombinationen von Tracks, die man bereits lieben gelernt hat.
Myom ist zurück mit einem neuen Mix: Wie der Titel ‚For Lovers not Fighters‘ schon andeutet: Es geht atmosphärisch und deep zu im Grenzland zwischen DNB, Jungle und Footwork. Mit Tracks von Om Unit, Machinedrum, Danny Scrilla u.v.a
Brandneue Tracks in einer Selection, die Myom immer schon mal in einen Mix packen wollte. Der Mix startet noch ziemlich uplifting, taucht dann aber nach 15 Minuten in tiefere Gewässer ab.
Tracklist:
01 Braille – Everyone´s Crazy (Machinedrum Rmx) [Friend of Friends]
02 Sideswipe – Stand Up [Ground Mass Music]
03 Moresounds – Dead & Bury ft. Fracture [Astrophonica]
04 Actraiser – Lost in the Jungle [Loose Squares]
05 Koreless – Lost in Tokyo (Symbiotic Sounds Rmx) [Rock´n´ Roll Kingdom]
06 Ital Tek – Solar Sail [Planet Mu]
07 Danny Scrilla – Free Flight [Cosmic Bridge]
08 Om Unit – Eternal Way [Civil Music]
09 Moresounds – Reality Tune [Astrophonica]
10 Philip D. Kick – Circles (Footwork Edit) []
11 Om Unit – The Crossing [Metalheadz
12 DJ Rashad, Machinedrum & Nick Hook – Understand []
13 EAN – Dont you know []
14 Machinedrum – SeeSea (Dj Rashad & Taso Rmx) []
15 Namebrandsound – Gigolos [Technicolour]
16 Stray – Fragile [Exit]
17 Romare – I Wanna Go [Black Acre]
18 Anushka – Atom Bombs (Namebrandsound Rmx) [Brownswood UK]
19 Ticklish – One Day feat. vzns []
20 Boards of Canada – Nothing is Real (Ticklish Edit) []