A quiet couple of days, so let’s have another break with some nice drum and bass. A couple of post-2000 tunes in this one, and some very deep tracks from the early days.

I don’t think I’ve ever posted the link, but I must have mentioned this before – it’s PFM’s The Western. I once put it at no.1 in my all-time Top Ten, and it might still be there…15 years of listening and I still love it.

Next is a real gem from Shogun (aka Artemis) called Together. I only found out the title last week – 14 years after I first heard it! My cousin used it as the opening track in a 1996 intelligent dnb mix titled Music to Make Your Parents Worry, but I think my mum and dad quite liked this one too.

This one was a big anthem – Airtight by Funky Technicians. Get past the fantastic drums in the intro and it’s a deep deep track.

The drums might not be too manic in KMC’s System (1997), but everything else is top class…just a lovely tune.

Ok, here we have a track that’s only four years old! This one is Embracing Solitude by JCB, and it was released by Cintamani, a brilliant label that tried to revive the intelligent side of drum and bass. Sadly there still aren’t enough people into the sound, and it seems to have faded away again…

Finally, here’s a fantastic track from an American artist called Antibreak. Around the early to mid-2000s he was coming out with some amazing tracks that weren’t picked up by any labels (a tune called 1 2 3 was another great one, but I can’t see it on YouTube). Lumiere is an absolute journey for 10 minutes, but sadly his more recent releases seem to have trapped themselves in the current dnb template and don’t match up to his early efforts.