Leading authority on all things bass and beyond, UKF delivers their second essential summer drum & bass soundtrack!
Drum & bass has a song for every season: while the harder, bass-bruised sounds are ideal for long late nights in sweaty clubs, the summer commands an altogether sweeter sound. A sound that's ultimately laced with soul, major keys, feel-good chords and soaring vocals, elevating you ten feet off the ground when dropped at a festival... But still sounding just as life-affirming when it drops on the radio or hums through the speakers in your car.
It's the sound that's currently dominating the charts with hugely successful exponents such as Sigma, Matrix & Futurebound, DJ Fresh & Adam F and Wilkinson smashing the top 20 with almost every release. It's the sound sound UKF Drum & Bass has been exploring and celebrating since the brand launched its YouTube channel in April 2009.
500 million videos views, 1.5 million subscribers and 10-plus albums deep into their new music mission, UKF Drum & Bass has secured status as one of the most trustworthy tastemakers for the most on-point, forward-thinking and versatile drum & bass currently being released. Covering the scene's many sub-genres (from tearing tech to the sweetest of soul), their 'Summer Drum & Bass' album series is a dedicated to those tracks precision-produced for the sunny season. And this - the second collection in this series - is certainly no exception.
Opening with the yearning gospel harmonies and blistering strings of DJ Fresh & Adam F's 'Believer', we're soon deluged in oceanic synths, honey-coated vocals and riffs so electrifying you'll need rubber soles. From Xilent and Diamond Eye's turbo-euphoria of 'Animation' to the more subtle reflective, minor key liquid soul of Seba's 'Too Much Too Soon', Ivy Lab's 'Gomeisa' and Lenzman's remix Amy Steele's 'The Wolves', over the course of 20 tracks UKF Drum & Bass not only provide a winningly curated summer soundtrack, but an immaculate bill of health for the genre at large.
Elsewhere on the album you'll find Sigma's top-15 tickling 'Higher', two heavyweight collaborations by BBC Radio 1's only drum & bass ambassador Friction, two stone-cold remix cuts from Calibre and 'The View'... Penned by the hotly tipped LSB and DRS, it's the scene-stamped anthem of the year with every DJ from every sub genre and style co-signing it harder than a sunburnt backside.
The sound of the summer, the sound of drum & bass, the sound of UKF continuing to showcase meticulous curation, celebration and exaltation of a genre that couldn't be in a better state if it went vegan signed up to a month of bikram yoga.
A song for every season, every party, every festival, mission, holiday and roadtrip you have planned over the next few months... Delivered by an all-star cast with a tracklist that genuinely represents all faces and facets of the scene. Enjoy your summer.
01. DJ Fresh & Adam F - Believer (Adam F & DJ Fresh BBK Edit.
02. Dimension - Love To Me
03. Tantrum Desire feat. Solah - Oblivion
04. Xilent feat. Diamond Eyes - Animation
05. Dr Meaker feat. Cappo D & Sharlene Hector - Freaks
06. Maduk - How Could You
07. Friction Vs Technimatic - Floating Frames
08. Sigma feat. Labrinth - Higher (Sigma VIP Remix.
09. Hybrid Minds feat. Riya - So Far
10. Keeno & Whiney - Dignity Found
11. Seba feat. Little Jinder - Too Much Too Soon (Blu Mar Ten Remix.
12. Amy Steele - The Wolves (Lenzman Remix.
13. Ephemerals - Life Is Good (Technimatic Remix.
14. Nu:Tone - Til Dawn
15. BCee feat. David Boomah - Typical Description (Calibre Remix.
16. DRS feat. LSB & Tyler Daley - The View
17. Ivy Lab - Gomeisa
18. Alix Perez feat. Peven Everett & SpectraSoul - Forsaken (Calibre Remix.
19. Etherwood - Amen Roadtrip
20. Friction Vs Dimension - Kinetic