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There’s something deeply satisfying about taking the things that once made you feel small and turning them into something massive. Grief…
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Hi! Who are you? Hey, I’m Andrei—founder of Quite Lucky, the drum & bass wing of our creative agency, Overskin – The Culture Label, based…
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Three years after their debut album, QZB is back with “Dreams to Dust” on Critical. This time with more focus and a clear vision, which…
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Hospital Records has blissfully pumped 30 years of unadulterated fun into drum & bass. From London Elektricity’s Billion Dollar Gravy and…
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Jessy Covets isn’t your average bass music artist. Based in the States, the vocalist, songwriter, producer, creative and DJ has seemingly…
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Hi, Who are you? James – “Yes yes UKF! I’m James Vine, aka ENiGMA Dubz. I’m a multi genre, bass music artist and I’ve been producing music…
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Since the start of 2026 Isaiah Turner – better known as Thatkidzay, or just Zay – has been diving head-first into a field of musical rabbit…
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Woooiii. Well that wasn’t on our bass bingo card. Seven years after announcing that they were going their separate ways, Noisia have…
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Logic Pro I’ve been recording my vocals for over 10 years now and my setup has stayed pretty much the same. Logic Pro will always have my…
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Fast, ferocious and feral – in other words, a trademark Merikan set. The Italian God of neurofunk is synonymous with the international…
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Longtime friends and collaborators Battery and Philth have joined forces to launch their own label, Majesty. It’s built on layers of wisdom…
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Meet Seven-Headed. The Groningen and Leeuwarden-based producer and guitarist has roots in metal, a fascination with folklore religious…
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Photo Credits: Khali Ackford Window Kid has spent the last few years carving out his own space within UK music. He first released ‘TBH’, a…
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A whole calibre of wicked and wild things can happen in 6 years. For Objectiv, it’s brought an abundance of change. Marriage, a baby on the…
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There is always a strong festive energy that takes over the streets of London at the end of every August, especially as we celebrate a…
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After a five year hiatus, Dilemma is back. When she took a step back from the scene after her last release in 2020, she felt like she lost…
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There are plenty of ways to promote a drum & bass single. A video. A remix competition. A moody photoshoot involving some concrete and some…
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My whole philosophy with producing is to keep things simple, and my set up reflects that. Most of the time I just make music on my laptop…
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There are worse ways to spend a week than disappearing into the Romanian countryside with a bunch of drum & bass producers, vocalists and…
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Canada has given bass music some pretty decent cuts of the years. Some of it obvious, some of it is hiding in plain sight, and some of it…
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Polished yet viscerally raw and provocatively uncompromising. With his second album Now or Never Justin Hawkes proves why he is yet again…
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Detox Unit has released 27 songs, five projects, and played over 150 shows. He’s sat down for exactly zero interviews. Until now. On August…
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For Grace, music has always been more about what happens in life than what happens in the studio. Now the driving force behind her latest…
UKF (opens in a new tab)For Grace, music has always been more about what happens in life than what happens in the studio. Now the driving force behind her latest…
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Every now and then the opportunity for an origin story arises that is so pivotal it can be traced back to a genre that actually shaped your…
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“There is no story that is not true. The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.” In Things Fall…
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With his latest project, What So Not is going back to his roots. It feels like both a look back at his own journey and a fresh take on the…
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HLZ is proof that in drum & bass, longevity isn’t measured by how quickly you reach milestones, but by knowing exactly when the time is…
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“For us, drum & bass has never just been about individual tunes. Every record is attached to a place, a night, a person or a particular…
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The best vocal-led drum & bass has always worked in two places at once. Basslines that rumble in your gut and vocals which call out to your…
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