Back by popular demand (?) here’s something I’ve been meaning to post up for a while – a few more of my favourite ambient/intelligent drum and bass tunes from back in the day. Don’t worry, I won’t start flooding TYFTH with non-freeform tracks, but click on this post and there should be as many classics as I can link to without the site imploding. I nearly killed WordPress yesterday when I tried to embed too many videos, so let’s see how it goes this time…

First up is PFM’s absolutely beautiful Danny’s Song, a very relaxing track from 1996 that builds and builds towards the end – 6.07 still gives me the shivers, amazing stuff. I was well into the melodic melancholy side of things back then too, so look inside for a few more along the same lines.

If you’re interested in hearing more of this kind of sound, a quick search for PFM, LTJ Bukem (try Music and Horizons, especially) or Seba will give you some absolutely incredible stuff to listen to – here I’ll try to show off a few less easy to find classics, too.

This one was released way back in 1995, which does make me feel a bit old – Tranquil features some brilliant drum programming, and the kind of unique atmosphere that I couldn’t find anywhere else but in early-to-mid 90s jungle.

Next we have another 14 year-old tune, Find Me by Skanna. I used to (and still do) love that breakdown at 2.52, another perfect vocal sample in here too.

I can’t resist one more PFM tune – For All of Us, one of my favourite intelligent amen tracks.

Peshay was especially know back then for his incredible Piano Tune, but this was another favourite of mine, his remix of Ingrid Schroeder’s Paint You Blue. One of the few vocal tunes I was into back then, this also has one of the best basslines in ambient dnb, I reckon.

Here’s a classic amen roller from Shogun – anyone who downloaded that 1996 Bukem set I posted a long time back will recognise this one.

Remember DJ Crystl? I think I posted Meditation a long time ago, but Mind Games came a few years later, and was a very big tune.

Another year or two after Mind Games, Planetary Funk Alert is one of Seba’s most famous tunes, and has possibly the best breakdown I’ve ever heard (4.19 onwards).

There are a million more, but that’s enough for now….hope you enjoy.