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Ear & Drum: Session 287 – Rugged

Ripping the band-aid off for this one as we bring the tough beats and big b-lines. I have to kick of with some Kasra from late last with his absolute smasher tunnels which was just made for Paul T & Edward Oberon’s upbeat blazer Badboy.

Keep an ear out for the eponymous 45 Killer from the EP of the same name, along with Red Ground by Response & Pliskin. And for Enei who’s been on an absolute tear with Count To Ten 2024 feat. DRS, Fear Fire and the Kasra Remix of Cracker, his tune with Eastcolors & Noel on the ridiculously great rmx_series:rmx001 EP on Critical. Tech Itch also released COVERT:FOUR recently, a new LP of diverse and interesting tunes along with the expected smashers. From that I’ve pulled Forbidden Secret and the romantically titled Cold Face Killer.

Rugged – 1hr of Tough D&B Beats

Kasra – tunnels
Paul T & Edward Oberon – Badboy
Rockwell – Estranged (feat. LaMeduza) (Bredren Femix)
SCAR – Shadow & Light
Enei – Count To Ten 2024 feat. DRS
Response & Pliskin – Red Ground
Detbol – Bruk Up
Humanature & Induktiv – Paroxysm
Seba – Horsepower (Mako Remixi
Motive – Tuff Luv
Phase -Eterna
A-Audio – Middlemen
Enei – Fear Fire
Enei, Eastcolors & Noel – Cracker (Kasra Remix)
Acid Lab – Bio Capsule
Response & Pliskin – 45 Killer
Icicle & SP:MC – Dreadnaught (Break Remix)
Tech Itch Recordings – Forbidden Secret
Tech Itch Recordings – Cold Face Killer
SweetpeaFor The Headz
Ella Sopp, Fingers, Philth & Christopher Rahman – Tell U No

Ear & Drum: Session 286 – Bushed

Dropping into the soul-side of D&B on this one with a BIG nudge towards the latest Redeyes LP – Slow. featuring the tracks Heads Up, Kusama and Waiting Games. I’ve also slid in the killer Redeyes collab with Whitt, Is it You.

Other soulful bangers worth keeping an ear out for are Elastic Soul from Alix Perez’ recent Entanglements LP, Workforce’s new joint Falling Down (feat. Tyler Daley) and the incredible deep roller Roads from Bungle. Lenzman also features with A.I. on the GLXY re-rub of Drowning and along with Fox on Golly. Plus we have the likes of Calibre, Mohican Sun, Silence Groove, Dan Guidance and Kasra to round it all out.

Bushed – 1hr of Soulful D&B

Redeyes – Head Up (feat. DAS & Fox)
Alix Perez – Elastic Soul
Artificial Intelligence &. Lenzman – Drowning (GLXY Remix)
Children of Zeus & Tyler Daley – Small Circles (Calibre Remix)
Workforce – Falling Down (feat. Tyler Daley)
Phil Tangent & SoulMotion – Only You
Mohican Sun – Vudu
Silence Groove – Same Old
Anile & DRS – Save Love
Mystic Trip – Greyling Way
Archangel – Nobody Else
Redeyes – Kusama (feat. 2b. Frank & Aya Dia)
Bungle – Roads
Dan Guidance – Fuzzy Buzz
Redeyes – Waiting Games (feat. 2b.Frank)
Soul Intent – Forgiveness
Kasra – Close 2 U
Redeyes & Whitt – Is It You
Brainwork &. mnml – Grey
Fox &. Lenzman – Golly

ALWAYZ WILL: 12th WAY MIX

Another Way for you. Hope you Njoy. Recorded in Liverpool end of 2023. Ceasefire now. Special boost to my DJ pal Ben V + fam + Rara.

1hr 24mins runtime. Strong Dnb influenced but goes all over…

Alwayz WilL – 12th Way

Nils Frahm – Mussel Memory feat MC Det slowstyle
rRoxymore – At Dawn (Original Mix)
Harmonic 313 – Falling Away (wSteve Spacek)
Lake Haze – Shores Of Eternal Life (Original Mix)
Actress – Pluto ( a 2 ) (Original Mix)
Actress – Game Over ( e 1 ) (Original Mix)
Nocow – Temno feat. Fama87
Kobe JT – Gosh (Original Mix)
Toby Ross – Sekkle (Original Mix)
Synpal, the nice planet – License (Original Mix)
LV – Turn Away (feat. Dandelion) (Original Mix)
Congi – Travellin’ (Original Mix)
Fikir Amlak, King Alpha – Kilombo
Rafael Toral – Mixed States Uncoded (Original Mix)
Lake Haze – Mind Clarity (Original Mix)
Dwarde – One For Me (Original Mix)
Coco Bryce – Nirwana (Original Mix)
THiiiS – SIU (Original Mix)
Alix Perez, GLXY – Green Lane (Original Mix)
Clipz – Koffee – Toast (clipz Remix) – Mastered Mix
Calibre – Breather
Calibre – Heat
Kelela – Enough For Love
Aydn – Macchi (Original Mix)
Calibre – The Game (Original Mix)
Reza – Dew Drops (Original Mix)
Calibre – No Stopping (Original Mix)
Gurrumul – Wukun
Nils Frahm – Sheep In Black And White feat MC Det Skibba D
Sault – Never Feel Fear

Ear & Drum: Session 244 – Call the Ambience 17: Silent Night

A return to the infrequent Call the Ambience series, this mix features laid back beats from some the genres best. Some of the usual suspects are here such as Bop, Shenji and Synkro, with bits from his amazing Collected compilation. And then there are some surprises such as Noisia in their Muffler form with the beautiful Water Piano Ambient, and incredibly Scar on Metalheadz with a few piece from his deep The Road Loss Traveled EP.

Call the Ambience 17: Silent Night

Kublai – Back Home
Rowpieces – 1st Love (Downtempo Remix)
Khramer – Far Away
Ink – Lost In Time
Muffler – Water Piano Ambient
Generic Meds – About Time (Remastered Remix)
Scar – Computerised Humanity
Shenji – Dreaming Mode
Synkro – Weakness (Akuratyde Remix)
Bop – Insight
Mineral feat. Resound – Spiritual 7
Syknro – Luminous
Synkro – Gagaku (Frederick Robinson Remix)
Fanu – Silent Resistance
Shenji – Old Memories
Easy – The Beginning
Flowanastasia & Stranjah – Face Yourself (Halftime Mix)
FX909 – Now (Half Step Mix)
Scar – Error

A big change for The Ear & Drum.

I’ve been running this site for over a decade now. My original goal was to have a place to call my own where I could document great D&B and other forms of music I loved and wanted to share with the rest of the world.

I feel like I’ve achieved this goal well enough, but The Ear & Drum could always do more to further the cause. With this in mind I’m following through with a dream I’ve had for a year or two now, which is opening the site up to more DJs who share a similar passion for music that I do.

The only thing that stopped me from doing this sooner was finding like minded DJs who could keep the quality high and the music pure. I’m glad to say, this week I reached out to a DJ who has always been top notch with his mixes and selection. He’s someone I’ve always looked up to and out for whenever a new mix dropped.

Welcome DJ Blick to the Ear & Drum.

I’ve followed Blick for over 10 years and I’m yet to hear a dud Blick mix. His taste in music, set selection and mixing is incredible, and I’m beyond confident he’ll make the Ear & Drum even better than it is now. Please make him feel welcome and shower him with friendly comments when ever you feel he’s hit the musical spot for you.

If you do enjoy having more mixes and music away from the commercial streaming entities and would like to see more quality DJs contributing to the D&B archive that is the Ear & Drum, comment here and I’ll see if I can find a few more talented DJs to join.

Ear & Drum: Session 234 – Still Waters

Still waters run deep as this Liquid rinse out proves. Kicking off with an older tune from 2020 by Fishy & Peron, although if you close your eyes you’d swear it was Marcus Intalex. It is almost as if it was written to mix with S.P.Y’s – Need You from the amazing Together With Ukraine compilation. If you haven’t picked this up, you won’t find a better value release or a better cause to spend your pennies on.

Following Need You is Lenzman & Echo Brown’s – Nokia Days and Workforce’s incredible track Forever. Two more tunes proving that Liquid can have beauty and brawn in a single track. Other stand outs are Champagne feat. Miss Fudge – The Other Side, 11 East – Emotive Rinser and Bop’s VIP rework of Space 2 Breath. Although if I’m honest every tune in here is a winner to my ears.

I’m dedicating this mix to Phil Fortune Cookie for putting me onto Ascending Reality, the best intro tune I’ve come across in ages. Check out Phil’s own mix series Deep and Dreamy over on his Mix Cloud.

Still Waters – 1hr of Deep Rolling Liquid D&B

Fishy & Peron – Ascending Reality
S.P.Y – Need You
Lenzman – Nokia Days
Workforce – Forever
Particle – Fall 2 Fast
HumanNature – Stories
Champagne feat. Miss Fudge – The Other Side
Redeyes – Moon River
flowanastasia & Nympho – River Flows
11 East – Emotive Rinser
Duoscience – Edge
Issue Cross & Wilkinson – Used to This
HEFT – Timeline
Bop – Space 2 Breath VIP
Wilkinson & Ilola – Close Your Eyes
Jrumhand – Inside



Ear & Drum: Session 231 – Taking Flight

2022 has picked up where 2021 left off in terms of solid Liquid D&B tunes coming out left, right and center. With regulars such as Furney, Tokyo Prose and Alix Perez joined by a new school of melodic producers such as Khramer, Styke and Echomatics in bringing the goods.

There is a little bit of something for everyone in this mix with Dynamite MC feat. Bop x Subwave’s – Into and Fox’s – Paper Weights providing some vocal depth. Furney’s – El Aqua and Styke’s – Apollo lets the music do the talking, while Dan Guidance’s – Freedom of Expression and HEFT’s – Promise bringing some deft drum work and bass heft.

Taking Flight – 1hr of Liquid Beats

Khramer – Far Away
Furney – El Aqua
Random Movement – How Many Ways
Styke – Apollo
HEFT – Promise
Echomatics – By Your Side
Etherwood – Spaces
Tokyo Prose – Still Life
Flaco – Star Search
Dynamite MC feat. Bop x Subwave – Into
Duoscience – Facing…
Dan Guidance – Freedom of Expression
Fishy – Solar Transit
Chimpo & Salo – I Don’t Care
Fox feat. Swing Ting – Day Ones (Lenzman Remix)
Far – If You Want
Pola & Bryson – Inder (Feat. Lauren Archer)
HumanNature – Stories
Alix Perez – Desanka
Brainwork – Adrift
Fox – Paper Weights (Feat. DRS & Calibre)

Ear & Drum: Session 228 – Doctor Who?: 2nd Regeneration

Heading into the golden era of the mid-90s for the 2nd installment of my Wax Doctor series. Since declaring this a three part series I’ve discovered a few more Wax Doctor tracks squirreled away in my vinyl collection under different names. So I’ll be adding a 4th mix to the series just for good measure.

A lot of these tracks are Wax Doctor collaborating with Alex Reece under the Jazz Juice and Unit 1 pseudonyms (later to become Fallen Angels), or as Bounty Killaz with Ashley Browne AKA DJ Pulse. There are definitely different moods to the sound depending on who the good Doctor teamed up with, Unit 1 being a lot tougher than the jazz inspired Jazz Juice for example. But in the end all of these tracks are pure quality and more than worthy of getting another spin.

Doctor Who?: 2nd Regeneration – 1hr of Wax Doctor (and friends) from 1995-97

Wax Doctor – All I Need
Jazz Juice – Detroit
Jazz Juice – Jazz Juice
Unit 1 – Untitled
Unit 1 – Love Me
DJ Pulse – Stay Calm (Bounty Killaz Remix)
Jazz Juice – Move Your Body
Wax Doctor – Step
Bounty Killaz – Silent Voices
Bounty Killaz – Do it Now!
Bounty Killaz – Killa Instinct (Alex Reece Remix)
Model 500 – I Wanna Be There (Wax Doctor Remix)
Wax Doctor – Cool Breeze

Ear & Drum: Session 225 – Memorandum

This is the first mix of the new year to feature actual 2022 tracks in it. It’s a pumping little Liquid number featuring some of the genre’s best including KSR, DRS & Need for Mirrors, Seba, Mystific and S.P.Y. Extra big push for Furney and his new LP ‘Under Below’ which is an absolute belter and for the return of NZ favourite live D&B sons (and daughters) Shapeshifter and their new album ‘Rituals’.

Memorandum – 1hr of Liquid D&B

HLZ – Orbit
MNML & Brainwork – Miracle
Shapeshifter – Lightspeed
Mystific – Pieces of My Life
Collette Warren, DJ Marky & Tyler Daley – One Exception (Pola & Bryson Remix)
KSR – Life, Money
Degs – Unwritten
Seba – Public Beauty
Furney – Lunar Tunes
Furney & Lady Emz – Travel in a Day
DRS feat. Need for Mirrors – Running Back
Bungle – Forms
FLM – One Time (Euphorics Remix)
Hiraeth – A Time When
HLZ – How I Feel
S.P.Y – Dream Fragments
Flowrain, Pulsaar & Devon – Blue (Decon Remix)
Furney – Bengo
Mystific – Space Cadet
Subrix – Direction
Particle – Fall 2 Fast

Ear & Drum Session: 217 – Strangers & Changes

More liquid beats this time featuring a good slab of D&B’s friendliest MC Inja’s new LP ‘Smile & Wave’. This album came out of the blue for me, and had so many great tracks on it I’m still rinsing them months after release.

Another big surprise was Metalheadz alumni Scar coming out with some beautifully melodic pieces on his Why EP. Known far more for tough futuristic beats and cavernous b-lines, Scar’s Falling Down and All I See are liquid, but with a rawness that is impossible not to like.

Much love to Seba too for his outstanding Fokuz All Stars Pt.3 release featuring Second Path and the divine Mystic Magnolia, Pola & Bryson for their killer tracks Neverend and Under and Disrupta for his tasty new Changes EP.

Strangers & Changes – 1hr of Liquid Drops

Disrupta & DRS – Changes
Disrupta – Play it Cool
Scar & Ella Sopp – Falling Down
Gest – Shame
Scar – All I See
Seba & JR Vailo – Second Path
Command Strange & MC Fava – Never Let Go
Inja & Charlotte Haining – Reach Out
Seba & Jenna G – Sweet Magnolia
Duoscience – Facing…
Inja – Smile More
Sub:liminal, Minos & Cardia – Future Lines
Inja – Stranger
Walk:r & Riya – Paragon
Technimatic & Riya – When the Dawn Breaks
L.A.O.S. – Begin Again (DJ Edit)
Pola & Bryson & Solch – Neverend
Random Movement – I stayed Around (Lenzman Reinterpretation)
Pola & Bryson & Lauren Archer – Under
HumaNature – Stories
Inja & Cleveland Watkiss) – Pressure