Category Archives: Ear & Drum Session

2025, Cross Genre, Ear & Drum Session

Ear & Drum: Session 300 – Three Hundred

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I kicked off The Ear & Drum in December 2008 with the intent of slinging up the odd mix and highlighting the artists I was feeling at any given moment. 17 years later almost to the day I’ve hit my 300th mix, and to celebrate I thought I’d throw down all the tunes over the past couple of years that I thought were extra special.

There is too many to go into, but know that this 2.5hrs is what you would get if you stuck me in front of a crowd and said, ‘Play whatever you want.’ There’s no given genres here, just a selection of absolute choons mixed within an inch of their lives.

To any and all who have supported the blog down the years, thank you so much and this one is for you.

Three Hundred – 2.5hrs of my favourite D&B

GLXY feat. DRS – She Sings For Me Workforce Remix)
DRS & Vangeliez – Hurts To Breathe
Mikal & Riot – Bamboo
Break – Overstayed
Scar – Erase It All
Seba & Paradox – Cypher
Break feat. MC Fats – Natural Way (Remix)
Alix Perez – Elastic Soul
Photek – The Forge
Unglued – JUNGLUED
Enei – Count To Ten 2024 feat. DRS
Modular Il – The Macready Tapes (Thing II)
Dunk – Danger
Soul Connection – Different State of Mind
The Sauce – What’s Going Down
Rockwell – Estranged (feat. LaMeduza) (Bredren Remix)
Sati & Artificial Intelligence feat. Gigi Daai – Stronger
Workforce – Falling Down (feat. Tyler Daley)
SCAR – Shadow & Light
Trakker – Cold Sweats
Workforce & Bobble Johnson – Deep Ones
Bruk Rogers – Get Low (Zero T Remix)
Dogger & Dub Phizix feat. Liam Bailey – Hard Times
Halogenix & Liam Bailey – Satisfy My Soul (Workforce & Leroy Horns Remix)
Anile & DRS – Save Love
Seba & Robert Manos – Easy
S.P.Y. & Grimm – You And Me (Radio Edit)
Acuna – Played with Me
Ruti – Lungs (Calibre Extended Remix)
Pablo Nouvelle – You Don’t Understand (Calibre Remix)
Calibre – Soul 80
Bungle – Invisible
Fox & Sl8r – Skull & Crosses
Creatures & DRS – Mayhem
London Elektricity feat. Conrad Subs & Genesis Elijah – All On Top
Goldie, Rufige Kru & Submotive – Goldikus (feat. Cleveland Watkiss)
MC Conrad – Lean Upwards
Fox & Sl8r – Love What I Do
Dogger & DRS – Let You Down
MC Conrad feat. Aquariid – к) Promised Land feat Aquariid (DJ Marky & Makoto Remix)
Badmarsh & Shri – Signs (Calibre Remix)
Technimatic – Inner Sanctuary
LSB – Potshot
Eijer – Between The Gap
Conrad Subs – Embers
DRS & Sl8r – On Us Lately
Fox & Lenzman – Golly

2025, Ear & Drum Session, Jungle

Ear & Drum: Session 299 – Jungle Path

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I don’t often jungle, but when I do I prefer to OG jungle over the newer stuff. Luckily remasters of remixes I never got my hands on back in the day are popping up with decent regularity, so I’ve something to play.

We’ve got beats from legends of the day like DJ Harmony, Acen, DJ Crystl and Dillinja. Some rarer remixes of D.R.S. classic Everyman, a Tango remix of Bounty Killaz haunting Silent Voices and even a jungle track from Tech-step dons Ed Rush & Nico.

I have slipped the odd new Jungle track in here if I deemed them worthy. Dwarde’s killa Get Away has the proper OG vibe, as does Nine Windows & Tim Reaper’s propa rinse out Transitions. And E&D favourite Atlantic Connection brings the class again with Ina Dem ’23 to close us out.

Jungle Path – 1hr of Jungle classics

Harmony – Beets
Dwarde – Get Away
D’Cruze – Hardstep
Acen – Champion
Krome & Time – Studio One Lik (VIP)
D.R.S – Everyman (Eternal Bass & Danny Styles Mix 1)
Harmony – Dream
DJ Crystl – The Dark Crystl VIP
Ed Rush & Nico – Selecta
Harmony – Only One
Krome & Time – The License (Krome & Time Remix)
Dillinia – The Angels Fell (2015 Remaster)
Dillinja – Majestic B Line (A1)
D.R.S – Everyman (Eternal Bass & Danny Styles Mix 2)
Harmony – Come Again
Nine Windows & Tim Reaper – Transitions
Bounty Killaz – Silent Voices (Tango Mix)
Atlas – Drifting Thru The Galaxy
Atlantic Connection – Ina Dem’23

2025, Ear & Drum Session, Melodic, Soulful

Ear & Drum: Session 298 – Souled Property

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Hitting up the soulful side of the crate this time around and there was a lot to choose from. On the northern side of things we have the LSB Remix of Culture Shock & Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaur – Back In Time, Dogger &. Dub Phizix feat. Liam Bailey – Hard Times and Dogger & DRS banger Let You Down.

Redeyes is back killing it with Tsuutina, Blue Flower and Satya all from his mini LP / EP The Light. Rufige Kru’s unexpectedly soulful People and Places from the Alpha Omega LP gets a rinse, as does a new Shy FX joint feat. Children of Zeus – On My Way which is very much appreciated. And I had too much fun running a remastered version of Kosheen – Hide U (Decoder & Substance 12″ Remix) in a set once again.

This really is just scratching the surface of the souled gold that is currently out there. Dig in.

Souled Property – 1hr of Soulful D&B

Culture Shock & Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaur – Back In Time (LSB Remix)
GLXY & Salo – Love Lost
Duoscience feat. Marya – Elevation
Submorphics, Zar & aya dia – Another Level Of Love (Trail Remix)
Redeyes – Tsuutina
Shy FX feat. Children of Zeus – On My Way (feat. Children of Zeus)
DAS, Vangeliez & D:Sign – Times Of Value
Dub Phizix – Circling The Sun (Extended Mix)
Halogenix &. Liam Bailey – Satisfy My Soul (Workforce & Leroy Horns Remix)
Rufige Kru – People and Places
Dogger &. Dub Phizix feat. Liam Bailey – Hard Times
Kosheen – Hide U (Decoder & Substance 12″ Remix)
Dub Phizix – Paper Planes
Eljer – Strip Back
GLXY, Duskee & Eljé – Settle
Redeyes – Blue Flower
Pablo Nouvelle – You Don’t Understand (Calibre Remix)
Eljer – Seventh Star
Mitekiss & Verbz – Spenny Henny
Technimatic & Lucy Kitchen – Looking For Diversion (Lenzman & Duskee Remix)
Anile & Mindstate – SnB
Need For Mirrors – Shangri-La
Dogger & DRS – Let You Down
Feijai – Let You Know
Redeyes – Satya
Technimatic – The Golden Section

2025, Deep D&B, Ear & Drum Session

Ear & Drum: Session 297 – Stoplight Loosejaw

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A stoplight loosejaw is a variety of fish found in the depths of the ocean where light doesn’t reach, not a guy crossing the road in Shoreditch at 3am. These tracks are all from the deeper end of the D&B spectrum where the drums are stripped back and the bass is way down there.

Kicking things of right we have the 88 Katanas – Overdrive from the very tasty Silver Walk EP blended with Bailey’s killah Letter From Detroit out on SunANDBass. Mikal & Rio’s – Bamboo on Metalheadz is a fluttery b-line roller I can’t stop playing, and the same goes for the J:Kenzo remix of Halogenix, dEridge & Steve Spacek’s – Take me Away.

Mayhem from Creatures & DRS should be well known by now, but you might not know that London Elektricity has broken away from the hands in the air liquid for a moody roller called All On Top (ft. Conrad Subs & Genesis Elijah) on Metalheadz no less. Closing things out is Bungle’s new piece on 31 Recordings from his Aline EP which gives me solid Marcus Intalex vibes.

Stoplight Loosejaw – 1hr of Deep D&B

88 Katanas – Overdrive
Bailey – Letter From Detroit
Mikal & Riot – Bamboo
Halogenix, dBridge & Steve Spacek – Take Me Away (Mantra & J:Kenzo Remix)
Technical Itch – Endless Stars
Data – The Brink
Photek – The Forge
Conrad Subs – Radius
Rozzer – Disruptorr
Akinsa – Rastafari (Offish Remix)
K-Chaos – Arrowhead
Workforce & Bobble Johnson – Deep Ones
Acid Lab – Listen
Sustance – Cycles
Monroe – Last Verse
Creatures & DRS – Mayhem
London Elektricity – All On Top (ft. Conrad Subs & Genesis Elijah)
Bredren – Conflicted
Philth – The Fear (Dispatched 2024 VIP)
Eijer – Between The Gap
Bungle – Ordinary

2025, Ear & Drum Session, Liquid D&B, Melodic

Ear & Drum: Session 296 – Outer Sanctuary

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Liquid gets a bit of a bashing these days due to it’s diversity. Ranging from Calibre style soulfulness all the way through to full-blown stadium style fromage, it’s a broad church in terms of genres. But, that doesn’t stop the euphoric goods from dropping week in and out.

Artists such as Soul Connection, Furney, Mitekiss, Technimatic and Need for Mirrors are forever perfecting their sound and keeping the quality high. Carlito’s About You was released as the 100th drop on Marky’s label and still has that 2000s Innerground running vibe. Spearhead are another label celebrating their 20th year anniversary with Technimatic’s brilliant From Within. Bop released the best Hospital drop in ages with his killer Hypnotics EP from which I selected Cravings as my pick of the bunch. And V Recordings are still keeping it real with Fox and Sl8r’s Skull & Crosses EP featuring the anthemic Love What I Do.

Outer Sanctuary – 1hr of Liquid D&B

Koherent & Charli Brix – Voices
Soul Connection – Push Me to the Limit
Furney – Swanko
Carlito – About You
Shapeshifter – Lightspeed
Seba & Paradox – Move On
ALB & LOATIAL – Forgiveness
Mitekiss – Never Felt So
Sustance & Salo – Out The Storm
Soul Intent – No One Else
Technimatic – From Within
Bop – Cravings
Nelver & nCamargo – Aurora
Impish – Truth Is (Vinyl Version)
Fox & Sl8r – Skull & Crosses
MC Conrad – Lean Upwards
Fox & Sl8r – Love What I Do
Soul Connection – With You
Walker – Late Night Track (Instrumental)
Command Strange & Intelligent Manners – When I Get Home
Break feat. Lorna King – Wait For You (The Sauce Remix)
Need For Mirrors – Whales & World Peace
Technimatic – Inner Sanctuary
Break feat. Charli Brix – Lost (Break Remix)

2025, Amen, Atmospheric, Ear & Drum Session, Intelligent, Melodic

Ear & Drum: Session 295 – Wide Open

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Winding down the BPM to 160 with this one, as we explore the more atmospheric side of life. There is something special about an atmospheric amen track pitched back to the bpm the pioneers of the sound intended. The drums breath and roll more, and that space gives the pads and atmospherics their time to shine. This mix took me back the early Progression Session days. And that is never a bad thing.

When I saw an ASC & Skanna collaboration on Over/Shadow I knew it was going to be something special, and Switch truly has that OG atmosphere in spades. Sandcastles is Rufige Kru on a 160bpm atmospheric tip. Yes fucking please. If you haven’t checked out Kid Lib’s take on video game soundtracks of days gone then you need to get onto his Jungle Rush LP stat!

Tango’s classic Understanding gets a mighty rework and remaster by L Major as does F-Jam by Adam F himself, who re-recorded everything to bring it up to date. Big shouts to the Omni Music cru who always bring the atmospheric goods, this time in the form of Non Rev on his beautiful The Method of Limits LP, friend of the show, Starski with his blinding Missing Photo LP and MiesFM with the haunting Misty Keys from the Momentum LP.

Wide Open – 1hr of 160bom Atmospheric D&B

ASC & Skanna – Switch
Rufige Kru – Sandcastles
Kid Lib – Jetstream Jam
Tango – Understanding (L Major Remix)
JLM Productions – Boundary
Perspective:R – Blissfully Compulsive
Adam F feat. MC Conrad – F-Jam Revisited
Atlantic Connection – Racers
Earl Grey – Lethargica – Hangman Cliffs
NonRev – Information Society
NonRev – And The She Lied
MiesFM – Misty Keys
Mineral – Illusions Disappear
Big Bud – Lucky 7
Kid Lib – Rocket Runner
Unglued – Get A Rush
Starski – God Has Forgotten US All
Cryogenics – Melancholy
Mystic State – Expectations
NonRev – At My Most Human
Tango – Spellbound (Ricky Force Remix)
Indigo Virus – Fractured Light

2025, Ear & Drum Session, Hard D&B

Ear & Drum: Session 294 – Bring It

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We’re tearing the lid off with this one, so strap in and turn it up. There is a bit of something old, something new going on with tracks like Hyper-On Experience – Lords Of The Null Lines (Photek Remix), Amit’s unstoppable roller Roots, and DJ Cyrstl – King of the Beats (Fierce Remix) and a new track from an old don in the form of Mixrace – Metanoid on Over/Shadow.

From the new crate we have the latest drop from Seba & Paradox on Metalheadz Cypher, plus some raw power from Unglued with the killah JUNGLUED from his Timestretch: Past EP. And a special shout out to the DOA production massive Offish & 88 Katanas for their smasher Downpour from the latest Offish LP – Circling the Drain and Andy Odysee for his dark masterpiece Obsidian from the EP of the same name.

There’s a tonne more rip-snorters in here, too many to mention. All killer, no filler yadda-yadda-yadda — you know the drill by know.

Bring it – 1.5hrs of pounding D&B

Mixrace – Metanoid
Monroe – Echo Habit
Enei – Flute Anthem
Scar – Erase It All
Ed:it – Sends
Seba & Paradox – Cypher
Break feat. MC Fats – Natural Way (Remix)
Unglued – JUNGLUED
Dub Phizix – Hatchet (Extended Mix)
Conrad Subs – So Good
Flipper – Noir Pt2 – Transcaucasia
Anku – Primal (Offish Techstep Mix)
Bruk Rogers – Get Low (Zero T Remix)
Total Science & Mako – Kabaddi
Dub Phizix – Rura
Dunk – Danger
DJ Cyrstl – King of the Beats (Fierce Remix)
Hyper-On Experience – Lords Of The Null Lines (Photek Remix)
Need For Mirrors – Giger
Amit – Roots
Fox & Sl8r – Skull & Crosses
Ed:it – Word Out
Goldie, Rufige Kru & Submotive – Goldikus (feat. Cleveland Watkiss)
Ink feat. Jody Lulati – The Ungrateful (Silent Extent Remix)
Kublai – Certified
Mako – Direct Source
Offish & 88 Katanas – Downpour
Andy Odysee – Obsidian

2025, All Artist Mix, Cross Genre, Deep D&B, Ear & Drum Session, Melodic, Uncategorized

Ear & Drum: Session 293 – Dusting Off

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I recently did an all Calibre remix set and was alerted by Silent Dust of None60 Records fame, that I had missed not one, but two Calibre remixes of his tunes on the label. Now I knew None60 because of their excellent Government Fun – Hours EP and a few of their other releases, but I really didn’t know much about Silent Dust. So down the rabbit hole I went…

It turns out Silent Dust & DRS – Refuse (Calibre Remix) is one of THE Calibre remixes I’ve been hunting for the longest time. And it also turns out that Silent Dust is also an incredible D&B (and Hip Hop) producer with a style very much in my wheelhouse. So two album purchases and a great deal of listening later, I have produced this all Silent Dust mix to a) make up for missing out on these in my former mix and b) because you really need to hear some of these tune!

Andy, this one is for you.

Dusting Off – An all Silent Dust mix

Silent Dust – No One Man (feat. SelfSays)
Silent Dust – Puppet’s Dream
Silent Dust – Winter Song (Original Demo Mic)
Silent Dust – The Giant (Remastered)
Silent Dust – Projection (Remastered)
Silent Dust – Another Sunlight
Silent Dust – A Million Words
Silent Dust – November (feat. Zilla Rocca)
Silent Dust – A Million Words (Remix)
Silent Dust – 1959 (Calibre Remix)
Silent Dust – Marlowe (Remastered)
Silent Dust – Marlowe (Hobzee Remix)
Silent Dust – Zero Nine Zero (Response & Pliskin Remix)
Silent Dust – Shadows On The Wall (feat. DRS – Oliver Yorke’s Nightscape Femix)
Silent Dust & DRS – Refuse (Calibre Remix)
Silent Dust & DRS – Refuse
Silent Dust – Myths
Akuratyde – November’s End (Silent Dust Remix)
Silent Dust – The Giant (Om Unit Remix)
Silent Dust – Eye of The Duck
Silent Dust – $S$ (feat. Terror)

2025, All Artist Mix, Ear & Drum Session, Liquid D&B, Melodic, Soulful

Ear & Drum: Session 291 – Calib:Remix

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This is the mix I always said I wouldn’t make, an all Calibre mix. Just about every corner of Calibre’s catalogue has been covered splendidly by others, or by the man himself. So I never really felt the pull to do what has already been done. And then I typed ‘Calibre’ and ‘remix’ into my Serato search field and this came up.

This is every Calibre remix I have and it really does make for interesting listening. Calibre, for the record, doesn’t remix his own tunes. But he is always up for remixing other people’s music from within and out of the D&B genre. And while I love a good Calibre D&B remix, it always seems like the non-D&B remixes are his best work.

London Grammar, Ruti, Pablo Nouvelle, Breach, Badmarsh & Shri, Lady Blackbird — these are the ones that really stick with me. They are almost perfect D&B tunes as they elevate above being just a track and become songs. A little bit pop, a little bit soul, a little bit D&B and a whole heap awesome.

Calib:Remix – 1.5hrs of Calibre Remixes

The Vanguard Project – Stitches (feat. Jemimah Read) (Calibre Remix)
Krust – It’s A Lot (Calibre Remix)
Danny Byrd – Changes (Calibre Remix)
Children of Zeus & Tyler Daley – Small Circles (Calibre Remix)
FD – Ambra (Calibre Remix)
Zero T – Refusal ft. Steo (Calibre Remix)
Alx Perez feat. Peven Everett & SpectraSoul – Forsaken (Calibre Remix)
LSB & DRS – Frozen (Calibre Remb)
London Grammar – If You Wait (Long Enough You’ll Get the Calibre Remix)
SpectraSoul Feat. Tamara Blessa – Away With Me (Calibre Remix)
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Garden (Calibre Remix)
Blu Mar Ten – Keep It Together (feat. Robert Manos) (Calibre Rel
Ruti – Lungs (Calibre Extended Remix)
Pablo Nouvelle – You Don’t Understand (Calibre Remix)
Nitri & Level 2 Feat. Grimm -Lies (Calibre Remix)
Total Science – Walk The Same Lines ft Riya (Calibre Remix)
SpectraSoul – Burst (eat. Dan Moss) (Calibre Remix)
Breach – Jack (Calibre Remix)
Sati – Forward Thinking (Calibre Remix)
DJ Marky & S.P.Y. – Yellow Shoes (Calibre Remix)
Badmarsh & Shri – Signs (Calibre Remix)
Impish – With You (Calibre Remix)
Dogger & Mindstate feat. Liam Bailey – Broken Home (Calibre Remix)
Total Science – Gravy Girls (Calibre Remix)
Lady Blackbird – Collage (Calibre Remix)

2025, Ear & Drum Session, Hard D&B

Ear & Drum: Session 290 – Granite

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Time to go rock hard once again with a mix of tuff tunes to shake your speakers. LSB kicks things off with an unusually hard flex in the form of Potshot which comes in three different flavours, two of which are found here. Need for Mirrors on Soul in Motion is always going to be a good time as The Chills from his EP of the same name proves.  Piranha Food on the Fear Grip EP on Zoltar is a Jonny L inspired joint also from Need for Mirrors.

Kid Drama always knows how to bring the bass, and Nitrosurge created with Garvo is no exception. Also keep an ear out for his track Bulldog later on in the mix. Bungle’s purple patch continues with Current from his Plasticity EP on the aptly named Dirty Hole Music, and the sublime Invisible on Santorin being my pick of the mix.

Granite – 1hr of Tuff D&B Beats

LSB – Potshot (Anile Remix)
LSB – Potshot
Need For Mirrors – The Chills (feat. Sal)
Conrad Subs – Embers
Martyn – Get Down
Last Life – Edena
Kid Drama & Garvo – Nitrosurge
S.P.Y – Alien Bass
Ejer – Fargo
Hymix &. Rly – Know Me Now
Kasra – tunnels
Shinobi – Lost & Found
Ejer – Black Daruma
Subwave – Think (Gest Remix)
T>I – Butane
Need For Mirrors – Piranha Food
Bungle – Current
Bungle – Invisible
Enta – Musing
Kid Drama – Bulldog
Ink & Sin – Infallible Drift (Sinoptic Mix)