22 October 2026 · Rigside Crew

Recon #4: From Solsan's Fear Gorta EP to Enei on a wind turbine

The week in drum & bass: the most-played new releases, the biggest events worldwide, the best new sets and mixes, and the artists moving on RIGSIDE.

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Breaking out

Mel’s ‘Eternal’ comes paired with ‘Manhunt’ on BrainRave, a label pushing harder and darker sounds since 2022. G-Class, Speaker Louis and RJD link up with Da Fuchaman on Jungle Cakes, and Solsan’s ‘Waiting’ is from Fear Gorta, a four-track EP for Deeper DNB named after a figure from Irish folklore. mSdoS’s ‘Paved Road’ is one of two tracks on the Black Honey EP for Celsius, Rotterdam’s home of soulful drum & bass, and Phenom & Discharge pair ‘Supernova’ with ‘Hunter’ on Skamele, the Dutch label behind the 180.3 events.

Most played

Blooom and Duskee’s ‘LOCKDOWN’ on Shogun Audio is the most-played new release this week. Audio’s ‘Final Protocol’ is the first of five samplers before EC100, Evolution Chamber’s 100th release, ‘Echoes Of Us’ will be familiar from Technimatic’s summer sets, and Mozey links up with Brodie on Rinse for ‘Stupid (Part 2)’.

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.

RigsideDeep in Seoul, with HWAN | HWAN과 함께, 딥 인 서울

Sets worth your time

Enei plays an exclusive set from the top of a wind turbine in Austria for UKF On Air, the first BLCKSHIFT Showcase. Eksman is joined by Amplify for the Next Hype Show on Kool FM, Beaty’s set comes from Beats for Love in Ostrava this summer, and Badlokk takes the Shrine stage at Darkshire In The Woods with neurofunk.

Trending mixes

Bladerunner and Benny L go back to back, live from the A-Frame at GemFest. Clearance packs a Mixing Bowl for Sofa Sound with fresh and forthcoming Sofa Sound music and dubplates, Doc Scott’s live Future Beats Radio Show runs to almost four hours, and Metalheadz are back on Kool FM with guest mixes from Dunk and Counter Culture. VISION Radio opens with KROON’s ‘Refund’.

Where to be: this weekend’s events

Fifteen drum & bass events across three continents this weekend. Critical Sound takes over fabric for FABRICLIVE with Kasra, Sully, Dub Phizix, Skantia and Waeys, Hospital30 reaches the newly opened Quarters in Brighton with Metrik, HOAX and Solah, and Lenzman’s label party The North Quarter returns to Phonox. Sweetpea marks 15 years in drum & bass and jungle at Club Cheek in London, and DrumObsession turns 20 in Poznań with El-B and a classic set from KEMAL, both playing the city for the first time. Doc Scott, whose Future Beats Radio Show is in this week’s mixes, plays Visionobi’s Colony at E1; Enei, whose wind-turbine set leads this week’s sets, plays Vandal x Flexout in Toulouse; Duskee joins Monrroe at Volks in Brighton; and Jungle Cakes returns to Blackbox in Hastings. Further afield, Tetsuji Tanaka’s 30th anniversary reaches Tokyo with Fonts b2b Cody Shion in the drum & bass room, Villem headlines Drum & Bass Sessions in Tampa Bay, and Feed the Dragon’s all-vinyl night returns in Hong Kong. In the small rooms, Lens brings Moving Mad to Number 90 in London, Stonecreek Crew bring HOAX to Dresden, and CLX hosts Kara and Tom Finster in Hannover.

Big nights

Heritage

On the chart

Worldwide

Small rooms

Artists moving

BCee moves for a second week, again across the back catalogue and led by Monrroe’s remix of ‘Little Bird’. DJ Millz is moving for a fourth week, again led by the DnB Allstars mix for BBC Radio 1 Dance, and cashkru’s new ‘time traveller’ added 187 plays. L0G1N moves for a third week, still led by the free download ‘We Ruff’.

40 new names

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

News

UKF looks back on 35 years of the Ragga Twins, from Unity Sound System to Reggae Owes Me Money, ahead of a celebration at Electric Brixton. Kypski and Kubus complete KROON’s All The King’s Men, a seven-track EP for VISION, in honour of Hajo Krijger, the trio’s late third member, and the Greek producer Myselor talks UKF through Cosmic Expression, a 20-track album for Evolution Chamber seven years in the making. In New York, Tekill tells D&B:UK the story behind ‘Vial Swashbuckler’, from a waterfall recording to a Gucci Mane vocal.