Recon #3: Little Simz joins Chase & Status, jungle from Serial Killaz, and Seoul's scene

From RIGSIDE

HWAN, one half of AUGMENTS and co-founder of DnB Seoul, talks us through a Korean scene with more than 20 years of history: the night that started it all, what Seoul crowds go for, and how DnB Seoul took the music beyond the people already in it.

Breaking out

Typecell, a German producer whose sound runs from techno-leaning drum & bass to neurofunk, returns on Subplate Recordings, a label founded in 2004, and KELT’s ‘MISERY’ is a free download on BOA Records, a label always looking for new and hidden talent. UK jungle producers Serial Killaz link up with Killa P on Jungle Cakes, Insepta’s ‘Tidal Lines’ lands on Fokuz, a home for soulful drum & bass since 1999, and 2Whales’ ‘Kashtan’ is out on Neuropunk, the Saint Petersburg label running since 2001.

Most played

‘Carnage’, Little Simz’s feature on Generic Everything, Chase & Status’s new album, is the most-played new release this week, ahead of Billain and Kings Of The Rollers.

Sets worth your time

Teya’s set from Beats for Love in Ostrava this summer leads. L-Side holds the decks for two hours on Kool FM, and VXRGO plays jungle at Planet Wax, the record shop and DJ bar in New Cross, South London, for the launch of Gabriel Dedji & LIZMNK’s What I’m After remix EP. V.OID, an Austrian DJ from the CrashDive collective, records a BLCKSHIFT Session.

Trending mixes

Friction and Linguistics’ live set from DnB Allstars Mallorca leads, ahead of Latte’s mix for BBC Radio 1 Dance. Bryan Gee’s V Podcast runs for over two hours and previews Vibes Start To Change, MC Fats & Inja’s new album on V. OCC guests on Forbidden Frequencies’ podcast, and Sequences returns to the Dispatch label mix after the Terminus EP, written across Colombia and France.

Where to be: this weekend’s events

Fifteen drum & bass events across four continents this weekend. Hybrid Minds, Tempza and A Little Sound play Worried About Henry at Depot in Cardiff, and Kanine plays Concorde 2 in Brighton with Disrupta. DJ Vibes celebrates 35 years at Electrowerkz with Grooverider, Slipmatt and over 50 artists across four arenas, and Dublin’s Bassbin marks 30 years since its first gig with Zero T. Friction, whose live set leads this week’s mixes, marks ten years of Elevate Records at The Steel Yard in London. Fonts, whose ‘Crystals’ is in this week’s new releases, plays UK SOUNDZ in Tokyo, and Klinical brings Overview Music to Void Hall in Berlin for Stoic Music’s final label night of 2026. SD Union turns 16 in San Diego with London Elektricity and Dirtyphonics, Hospital’s 30th reaches Auckland and Wellington with Danny Byrd, and Drum and Bass India brings Whiney to Bangalore. In the small rooms, Grooves goes turntable-only at Cu in London, Lens brings Moving Mad to Lost Horizon in Bristol, and Tim Reaper plays four hours at Hidden in Manchester.

Big nights

Heritage

On the chart

Worldwide

Small rooms

Artists moving

DJ Millz is moving for a third week, led by a mix for the DnB Allstars show on BBC Radio 1 Dance. Kaizen Flow’s new VIP of ‘TLM’ added 459 plays this week, and L0G1N moves for a second week, again led by the free download ‘We Ruff’. BCee’s growth is spread across the back catalogue, led by Monrroe’s remix of ‘Little Bird’.

63 new names

Fresh on RIGSIDE this week, from big names to ones to watch.

News

Beatportal covers Generic Everything, Chase & Status’s seventh studio album, with guests including J Hus, Little Simz, Giggs and Skrillex. Klinical tells UKF about EDEN, an 18-track debut album for Overview that took about two years from first track to last, and Fonts picks producers to watch for UKF’s Ones To Watch, including Azumai and Mountain from the Japanese scene. D&B:UK tells the story of Trigga Fingaz, a label started by two backpackers who met in Cairns, which now runs bi-monthly events in Santiago, Chile.