Recon #2: Skrimor, QZB, LTJ Bukem

From RIGSIDE

Seven-Headed on Jahbulon, the EP for SubCulture: Revelation, Masonic lore and five years of reworking.

Top new releases

Skrimor’s Kraken EP on Hanzom Music, a three-track release with Absu_NTQL on ‘No Way’, takes No. 1. QZB’s ‘Colder At The Peak’ with Duskee is from the album Dreams To Dust on Critical, out 2 October, and Shogun Audio welcomes Monrroe back with ‘IWLYF’, a dark liquid track voiced by Blocksberg. Napes’ remix of Flava D and Stush’s ‘Energy’, first released on UKF, is part of Drum&BassArena’s 30th anniversary series.

Sets worth your time

Two of this week’s sets come from Let It Roll in Most, Czech Republic, this summer: The Neuroheadz, and YUSSI on the Archive Stage. Billain played Darkshire In The Woods, and DJ Millz, also among this week’s artists moving, played a classic jungle set at ROOTS at Planet Wax, the record shop and DJ bar in New Cross, South London.

Trending mixes

LTJ Bukem’s 30-minute guest mix for SHERELLE’s The Sweatbox on BBC Radio 6 Music, first aired on 29 August, leads. Bassi, the selector behind Flexout Audio, takes Sofa Sound’s Mixing Bowl, and Swampman, a New Zealand-born, London-based DJ and writer, mixes the SUNANDBASS podcast. London Elektricity squeezed out episode 55 of the Fast Soul Music podcast before heading to the US, and VISION Radio premieres KROON’s ‘Bad Day’.

Where to be: this weekend’s events

Thirteen drum & bass events across four continents this weekend. Worried About Henry takes over Depot Mayfield for The Warehouse Project with Andy C, Camo & Krooked and Hybrid Minds, and Sub Focus, Dimension, Culture Shock and 1991 play Worship in Miami. Berlin’s Recycle, started in 1996, marks 30 years at Gretchen with Congo Natty, and Athens’ Urban Danja crew turns 20. London Elektricity, whose podcast is in this week’s mixes, plays what JUICE calls its last in-person Portland show for some time, while Hospital’s 30th reaches Christchurch and Perth with Danny Byrd. In the small rooms, Sully, Tim Reaper, Coco Bryce and Dwarde go back to back for four hours in Antwerp, and Motive Hunter marks five years at M.O.T in London.

Big nights

Heritage

On the chart

Worldwide

Small rooms

Artists moving

DJ Millz and MM are moving for a second week. DJ Millz, a Kool FM presenter, is rising on DJ sets, led by a Boxpark B2B with Nicky Blackmarket, and MM’s drum & bass bootleg of Prospa and Cloonee’s ‘Free Your Mind’ added 1,024 plays. cashkru’s climb comes after five new uploads on 1 October, and L0G1N’s free download ‘We Ruff’ led a week spread across several tracks and mixes.

News

UKF meets Zaba of Croakheads, the drum & bass collective and activist group that has raised over £3,300 for Music Venue Trust. Pinks talks about launching Feral Frequencies and ‘Come With Me’ on Motive Hunter, the label marking five years at M.O.T this weekend. Cabeabel tells D&B:UK how an old-school Amen feel and Bulgarian choir samples shaped ‘March of the Fallen’, out now on Elm Imprint with ‘Sirens of Silence’.