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OK so I really like:

Burial
Horsepower Productions
El-B (some)
Hugh Hardie (some)
Ed Rush (some)
Roni Size

Most of the stuff I dig was produced before 2010.

What else ya got?

Mindblowing, trailblazing hardcore jungle/DnB from 1993:

Bizzy B - "Twisted Mentazm"


Bizzy B - "Weekend"


Graham Sutton of Bark Psychosis released a dark, highly technical DnB album 'Balance of the Force' in 1997 that was years ahead of its time:

Boymerang - "Mind Control"


Boymerang - "You Like It Like That"

chexmixbreath wrote: Fri Aug 26, 2022 2:23 pm Mindblowing, trailblazing hardcore jungle/DnB from 1993:

Bizzy B - "Twisted Mentazm"
Bizzy B - "Weekend"

Graham Sutton of Bark Psychosis released a dark, highly technical DnB album 'Balance of the Force' in 1997 that was years ahead of its time:

All good, thank you. really diggin' Boymerang.

Digging the Bizzy B.



Wore out the grooves on this one, I did. Starts pretty tame for Squarepusher, but the lounge/jazz melody morphs into knotted and gnarled dnb. Blew my head off when I first heard it. The last movement is just bonkers.



dark atmospherics from The Third Eye Foundation



Live dub and electronics from Chicago's Frontier. Mike Tsoulos is a beast on the drums. Closest approximation to executing non-programmed drums I've ever heard. Visceral and thrilling shows. Live, loud, and blinding.



Not purist/doesn't count, but I absolutely adore Pizzicato Five and this 70's lounge take on dnb in particular. Doesn't kick in til much later, but it's cute and well-executed. Super cute.

Not too long ago I ran across a modern dnb mix on Resident Advisor, but I can't seem to recall the DJ's sobriquet. Will get back to you on this, but it was straight fire.

Stuff on Ambush Records. The 'Mash the Place Up' compilation is a good starting point.

Title track:

I bought “Jungle Hits Vol. 1” this year, wanting to hear something of what I heard on late night radio in the mid-nineties, and it has not disappointed.

What was sold soon after as “intelligent drum and bass” underwhelmed me, a patronising, AOR version of the potent stuff. Goldie’s “Timeless” seemed overlong, pretentious and tame, and I hated what I heard of the Roni Size album, dismissed it as cocktail lounge music. I was snottier then, obviously.

sparky wrote: Fri Aug 26, 2022 5:49 pm I bought “Jungle Hits Vol. 1” this year, wanting to hear something of what I heard on late night radio in the mid-nineties, and it has not disappointed.

I have this in my list on Spotify. Good album!

I am glad! I ought to return to the d’n’b albums, as my tastes were narrow then, and my beliefs included the conviction that friends would finally like Big Black if only they heard those records more times at louder volumes.

Plug - Drum'n Bass for Papa is my favorite, but also

Photek - The Hidden Camera; Ni Ten Ichi Ryu; Modus Operandi
Alex Reece - So Far
Various - Torque

Beatrice Dillon -- Workaround



Something from 2020 that loosely fits. I'm not even sure what Jungle, 2-step and drum and bass are at this point.

As an album it's about as good as it gets.