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OK, besides being just a favourite, this one's also a personal opinion; Jungle at its purest essence, stripped down to just bare essentials. Nothing fancy needed, just a fat warm bassline, properly built rhythm to keep it rolling and some samples thrown in to give it a distinction. Released on Moving Shadow, my favourite label.

What happened to "just plain nice" tunes anyway?

Jonny L, one of the pioneers that gets too often left unmentioned. His uncanny ability to stay off the limelight year after year amazes me, despite 1) the remix work for The Prodigy, Nasty Habits' 'Shadow Boxing' and numerous other classics, 2) two amazing albums that paved the way from blue note era Metalheadz sound to Prototype techstep and 3) lenghty career with dozens of profilic releases on big labels and his own 'Piranha records'. Luckily his music speaks for itself but hey c'mon, some love for the guy too?

'Treading' came out on XL recordings in his debut album 'Sawtooth', a nice box with five pieces of 10" black wax (I remember VVR paying silly money for a mint copy years back). The tune is a sinister breakbeat workout with recognizable synth lines and brutal bass, but little to no hooks to recall its name. I've tried to hum** and explain the synths at least a million times to different people but the name never pops up.

**(TBH not really sure if its because of my superior humming skills)

Boymerang, aka Graham Sutton, really didn't release much drum'n'bass, but he's a great example of quality over quantity. Every single tune from him is just quality. He released his album Balance Of The Force in 1997 and I basicly could have picked any tune off that album, but I decided to pick this track because it is simply the one I've played the most. It's really an album everyone even slightly into jungle and drum'n'bass should check out.

Boymerang disappeared from drum'n'bass almost as quickly as he appeard and Sutton went on to do some recording, production and live mixing for bands, and in 2004 he revived his shoegaze/post-rock project/band Bark Psychosis which had been previously active in the early 90's. Originally Boymerang was born off Bark Psychosis as it started as a collaboration between Sutton and the band's keyboard player, Daniel Gish, but after the first releases Gish left the project and Sutton continued as a solo artist.

Hello vvr here o/

We have talked about starting a new segment in our humble blog that has a function of exposing people to our favorite d&b tracks of all time, so here goes as i blatantly take over and make my first selection...

Macc : Nunez released by transmute in the year 2007

http://www.discogs.com/Macc-Nuñez-Set-The-World-On-Fire/release/907569

You know those records that never leave your record bag? well this one is mine :)
this beautifully crafted piece by Macc is so captivating that every time i put in on the platter i have to listen to it from start to the very last groove.

I could go on about how great this track is but you can listen to it for yourselves, enjoy ;)

As you might know now, we've done Science for two years at Bar Loop, but it's going to be over for now, as the small bar with heart has now closed its doors for good. That means that our night is going on hiatus.

In the meantime, we'd like to thank Mr. A, Mika, Hanne and everyone else at Bar Loop for a the amazing place and atmosphere as well as the beer, tapas, nachos and salsa. Big shoutouts also to all the dj's who have played at Science, it's a long list so i'm not going to write it down here, and also big big thanks to everyone who's visited our nights and enjoyed the leftfield drum'n'bass beats. It's been fun.

Time for some dubstep again, rolling up and down between some crunchy steppy beats and more mellow melodic bass meditation tracks. Sunday vibes.

http://www.sciencehki.net/axu/audio/axu_stress_related_symptoms.mp3

Found some great free dubs thanks to this Step Ahead thread, respect to all the producers giving out free stuff and hard work whether your genres are. Direct links to the tracks can be found in the tracklist:

"If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled - for you are in Elysium, and you're already dead."

http://indigo.sininen.piste.org/planes.mp3

Murky deep waters ambient from one of my personal favourite DJs in Finland (and probably many others pick him too), Indigo. This one caught my attention because of the two Oöphoi tracks from his album 'Spirals of Time' that got me back into the great depths of ambient after a small break. Celestial soundscapes guaranteed.

Great music for mornings when you're up early but you don't have any kind of rush anywhere and you more or less wait for the time to pass. So you just sit down, have some coffee and let the music fill the room and you wake up slowly.

HAY GUYS.

It took a while for us to get things running, but now we're finally here, although things are slightly unfinished here, but we're working on it. Besides apparently the "we're going online when we're completely done with all" approach doesn't really work because we'd find always something to improve.

Anyway, explanations aside. We started talking about doing a website and a podcast sometime around spring 2009. Nothing really happened about that then, but 6 months later things actually happened and we recorded the first episode of the podcast. And started setting up the website. Setting up the website took a bit longer than we thought because of real life interfering with things (christmas time mostly, yay), so eventually we scrapped that episode and recorded a new one two weeks ago.

And anyway, now it's here. And the website is running. And we're going to make it better and try improve it. And we need your feedback on that, too.

Anyway, I'll cut the crap now. Welcome, go check the "about" section about more info on who we are and what we do. And check out the podcast and stuff.