Best Drum & Bass, Dubstep, Breakbeat Artists, Albums & Tracks
Albums
- 4 Hero – Parallel Universe – 1994 (Jungle)
- Black Sun Empire – Cruel & Unusual – 2005 (DnB)
- Bong Ra & Enduser – The Kill – 2007 (Industrial/Hardcore)
- Breakage – This Too Shall Pass – 2006 (Experimental) – Recommended.
- Chemical Brothers – Single 93-03 (Big Beat)
- Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole (Breaks/Big Beat)
- Counterstrike – Draco (algo003) (Hardstep)
- Cybernetika – Atropos (Psy DnB) 2009
- Deviant Electronics – Blunt Instruments (Psystep)
- Dieselboy – The Dungeon Masters Guide (DnB)
- Dieselboy – The Human Resource (DnB) – This release has the Upbeats remix of Styles of Beyond – Subculture.
- DJ Deekline & The Ragga Twins – Hardcore Beats – 2003 – Jungle
- DJ Hidden – The Words Below – 2009 (IDM/Techstep)
- Evol Intent – Era of Diversion (DnB) – My favourite Drum & Bass album.
- Iglooghost – Chinese Nu Yr – 2015 (IDM)
- Iglooghost – Little Grids – 2016 (IDM)
- Ital Tek – Midnight Colour – 2010 (Abstract/Dub) – Strangelove VIP, Infinite
- Ital Tek – Hollowed – 2016 (Abstract/Dub) – Jenova
- L-Wiz – Fruit Shop/Pirates/Syrup Feeling – 2007 (Dub)
- Mobthrow – Mobthrow – 2011 – Dubstep – Night Riders, Bulb Engine, Desert City Rising, Iron Tribal – Heavy, ponderous dubstep, yet with a certain vigorous intensity.
- Paul Oakenfold – Bunkka (Breakbeats & Trance)
- Pendulum – Hold Your Colour (Breakbeats/DnB) – This is one of those rare albums which will appeal of anyone and is still very good.
- Photek – Modus Operandi – 1997 (DnB) – Tight production. Spacey synths. Abstract yet dreamy. Just the right amount of spice.
- Prodigy – Music for the Jilted Generation (Big Beat)
- Prodigy – Fat of the Land (Big Beat)
- Sibilant – Proper Filth (Drumfunk with a dash of psy) – This is what I imagine drumfunk would sound like, its a bit experimental in parts such that it sometimes sounds like techno, for example the last track.
- Somatic Responses – Source of Disturbance – 1997 (Industrial/Acid/Hardcore)
- Soundmurderer – Toned Down EP (Jungle)
- Spor – Supernova EP – 2007 (Neurofunk)
- Spor – Tactics EP – 2005 (Neurofunk)
- Squarepusher – Hard Normal Daddy (Jazz/IDM Breakcore)
- Stakka & Skynet – Clockwork (Techstep) – Has ups and downs.
- The Flashbulb – Kirlian Selections (Ambient Breakcore)
- The Teknoist – …Like A Hurricane Made of Zombies – 2008 – Breakcore/Industrial/Hardcore – Breakcore with orchestral pads.
- Venetian Snares – My Downfall (Original Soundtrack) (Classical Breakcore)
Compilations
- VA – Future Beats – 2006 (Neurofunk/Techstep)
- Various – Generation Bass Presents: Transnational Dubstep (Dubstep) – Tracks #1,2 are great. The others, YMMV. Included here because it’s interesting to see how people are pushing dubstep into ‘post-dubstep'(?) territory.
- VA – Stadium Drum & Bass – 2008 – Rock/DnB – The “stadium” sound where DnB and Rock cross over
- Various – Step Darker – 2009 – Dubstep – On the experimental side.
- VA – Thought Process .01 – 2003 – IDB
- Good throughout but Vector Burn – Orchid (Mav remix) stands out.
- VA – Broken – 2004 – DnB/Breaks/Psytrance
Mixes
Tracks
- 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse – We Are The Future (Jungle)
- Acidrockers – Inside (Psystep)
- Akasha – Brown Sugar (PFM Cosmic Journey Mix) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5lj7Q5kDtU
- Axi – Mayan Temple (Goastep) – Goa Trance infused DnB.
- B-Complex – Acid Trip (Neurofunk)
- Bad Company – China Cup (Techstep)
- Bassnectar – Here We Go (Dubstep)
- Big Mistake & DJ Rx feat. Pastor Skinström – Worm (Psy Jump Up)
- Black Sun Empire – Arrakis (DnB)
- Black Sun Empire – Breach (DnB) – This is my favourite DnB track, it has melodies and rhythms which will leave you humming all day and drumloops which perfectly complement the rhythms.
- Breakage – Losing Track (Dub)
- Budoka – It Hurtz (IDB) – An amazing combination of Johnny Cash singing and relaxed D&B.
- Chase & Status – No Problem
- Calyx & Teebee – The Divide (Neurofunk)
- Calyx & Teebee feat. MC Verse – Dual Processed (Neurofunk)
- Caracal – Elements (Ambient Dubstep) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZTu0nVYDRg
- Carl Cox – Phuture 2000 (both Deepsky and Hybrid remixes) (Acid Breaks)
- Chemical Brothers – Loops of Fury (Big Beat)
- Chemical Brothers – Leave Home (Big Beat)
- Counterstrike – Maniac (Techstep)
- Counterstrike – Draco (DnB)
- Cowboy INC ft James Rejoice – Aural Body (Intelligent D&B)
- Crispy – Predator (Cyberoptics Remix) (Dubstep)
- Crystal Method – Blowout (Acid Breaks)
- Cubanate – Hinterland (Industrial)
- Cybernetika – Devoid of Gravity (Psystep)
- Dark Sky – Leave (IDB)
- Deadcrow – Nothing (Trap)
- Declan Flynn – Bahatu (Ethnic Breaks)
- Desimal – Afterlife
- Desimal – Circle of Nine (Techstep)
- Digitalis – Loop Garou (Psy Breaks)
- Digitalis – Yab-Yum Soul (Psy Breaks)
- DJ Crystl – Crystlize (Intelligent Jungle)
- DFRNT – Dark Spaces (Experimental/Dub) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLmnI207EyQ
- DJ Dance – Death by Stereo (Mix 3) (Breakcore/Hardcore)
- DJ XS – Rock (Neurofunk)
- Doctor P – Sweet Shop (Dubstep)
- Dodge & Fuski – Side 2 Side (IDB)
- Dom & Roland – Thunder (Techstep)
- Dom & Roland – City (Techstep)
- Dom & Roland – Parasite (Techstep)
- Dub Phizix & Skeptical Feat. Strategy – Marka (Dub)
- Ebony Dubsters – Ra (Original Sin Remix) (Neurofunk)
- Eat Static – Peristalsis (Industrial/Rhythmic Noise)
- Ed Rush & Optical – Chubrub
- Ed Rush & Optical – Space Monkey
- Ed Solo – Age of Dub – Recommended listening once a day. A dub take on the classic proto-trance hit “Age of Love”.
- Eprom – Bubble (Original Mix)
- Eprom – Shoplifter
- Eprom – TWERKUL8
- Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams (Noisia Remix) (Jump-Up)
- Fatboy Slim – Acid 8000 (Acid)
- Fatboy Slim – Right Here Right Now (Breaks)
- Fluke – Atom Bomb (Breakbeat)
- Flux Pavilion – I Can’t Stop
- Foreign Beggars – Contact (Noisia Remix) (Dubstep)
- Foreign Beggars feat. Noisia – No Holds Barred (Excision Remix) (Dubstep)
- Fracture & Neptune – Time Will Tell (IDB)
- Go Hiyama – Concrete Advance (Dead Sound And Videohead Remix) (Industrial) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvgr9MdZnzw
- Hybrid – Finished Symphony (Break Trance)
- IMF – Mission Impossible Theme (Breaks)
- Imminent Starvation – Ire (Industrial Noise)
- Ital Tek – Strangelove VIP
- Ital Tek feat. Anneka – Restless Tundra
- Karsh Kale – The Longing (Ethnic Breaks)
- Klute – 174 B.P.M.
- Klute – Shirtless
- Klute – Pissed Jeans
- Konflict – System Bleed (Techstep)
- Leon Switch – Subway (Techstep) – Rumbling sub-bass.
- Leon Switch & Cryptic Minds – Mind Speed (Techstep)
- Mahisha – Mahisha-Empire (Acid DnB)
- Mahisha – Cyber Guru (Acid DnB)
- Mahisha – Dishoom (Goastep)
- Mala – Changes (Dubstep)
- Mellow Sonic – Abyss (Cybernetika Remix) – Psy DnB.
- Moby – James Bond Theme (Breaks)
- Modern Moves – Regret (Techstep)
- Muffler – Embrace (DnB – Trancestep)
- Nam Shub of Enki meets Kiki.ILL – _Clickher (Psystep)
- Nightbreed – Pack of Wolves (Pendulum Remix) (Neurofunk)
- NiT GriT – Prituri Se Planinata (NiT GriT Remix)
- NiT GriT – Let Me Die
- NiT GriT – Abandoned (Sloth Logic Remix)
- NiT GriT – Lupin – All these tracks are from the NiT GriT album.
- Noisia – Brainstitch (Neurofunk)
- Noisia – End Game (Darkstep)
- Noisia & Mayhem ft. KRS One – Exodus (Neurofunk) – You need to watch the video to get this track.
- Noisia – Monster (Neurofunk)
- Noisia – Stigma (Neurofunk)
- Noisia & Teebee – Lost Cause
- Nphect & Dizplay – White Russian (Neurofunk)
- Ophidian & Ruffneck – So Many Sacrifices (Hardcore)
- Orbital – Technologique (Big Beat)
- Overseer – Supermoves (Big Beat)
- Pendulum – Masochist (Jump-Up)
- Peshay – Catch it (Jungle)
- Phace – Psycho (Techstep)
- Phutureprimitive – Rapid Cognition (Psychedelic Dubstep)
- Pish Posh feat MC Posi D – The Beech Master
- PFM – The Western (Original) (IDB)
- PFM feat. MC Conrad – The Western (Logical Progression Vol. 1 Version) (IDB)
- Prodigy – Voodoo People (Big Beat)
- Ragnarok Online ST – Retro Metro (Symphonic Breaks)
- Raiden – Fallin (Trancestep)
- Raserblade – Scorpion (Jump Up)
- Savant – Siren feat. Ninur (Dubstep)
- Shakta – Loup Garou (Psybreaks) – Loup Garou is French for werewolf.
- Shakta – Yab-Yum Soul (Psybreaks)
- Shimon – The Shadow Knows (Dirtyphonics Remix) (Jump-Up) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IFNjLmYjZU
- Skynet – Catherine Wheel (DnB)
- Stakka & Skynet – Global Report (DnB – Techstep)
- Sub Focus – Scarecrow (DnB)
- Spor – Darkfunk (Dark Ambient influenced by Neurofunk)
- Spor – Haywire (Neurofunk)
- Spor – Knock You Down
- Sloz n Crone – Pow (Jungle)
- Stranjah – Assassinz (IDB/Neurofunk)
- Technical Itch – Contaminate (DnB)
- Technical Itch – Hex (Gein remix) (Techstep)
- Technical Itch ft. MC Jakes – Retribution (Audio RMX) (Techstep)
- Technical Itch – The Legend (Evol Intent Remix) (Acid DnB)
- Techno Syndrome – The Immortals (Mortal Kombat OST) (Breaks/EBM)
- Teebee – Daywalker (Dark IDB)
- Teebee – Gathering of Developers (Dark IDB)
- Teebee – Quiet Moment (DnB)
- Telemetrik – RUR (Neurofunk)
- The Qemists – Stompbox (Spor Mix) (DnB)
- The Militia – You and I know (DnB)
- The Upbeats – Fill Me In (DnB)
- The Upbeats feat. Evol Intent and Ewun – Smash (DnB)
- The Upbeats and State of Mind – Earth (DnB)
- Ultrabear – Bear Trap (Excision Remix) (Dubstep)
- Unknown Error – The Yearning (Trancestep)
- Unknown Error – Shadows (Trancestep)
- Vex’d – Thunder (Dubstep)
- V.I.V.E.K – C My Vision (Dubstep)
- Volor Flex – You In Me (Dubstep)
- Wickaman & Hoodlum – Na Fool Me Again
- Yoshida Brothers – Storm (TM Mix)
Hello! “Evol Intent – Era of Diversion (DnB) – My favourite Drum & Bass album” Which one, the vinyl version or the CD version? Thanks!
Hey! The CD version. I haven’t heard the vinyl version. Discogs lists the vinyl as a “test pressing”: https://www.discogs.com/Evol-Intent-Era-Of-Diversion/release/1238468 Why, do you have the vinyl?
Hello! I don’t have the vinyl, I am listening on Tidal and on Tidal there are the two versions, vinyl and CD and the tracks are completely different. Thanks! P.S. I am an obsessed music lover (classical, jazz and everything goa and ambiental) and a huge, huge fan of everything Sci-Fi. I like your site!
Oh interesting, didn’t know that. And thanks, so glad you like the site! I love music too, goa most of all, but many other genres. I’ve become more interested in abstract music like Tim Hecker – Virgins or some Ital Tek like Strangelove or Jenova. Sci-Fi definitely! BTW I just read the Worm book – https://parahumans.wordpress.com/ – and it was compelling and very different science fiction.