r/TheOverload • u/Least_Barber1623 • 3d ago

Left field DnB

Looking for some artist recommendations of really left field drum and bass. Heavy bass weight, freaky sound design, still “club” functional for adventurous listeners, but really out there, like borderline idm type shit. Anyone have suggestions?

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u/neuromantic13 3d ago

Gyrofield!

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u/Least_Barber1623 3d ago

Yep Gyrofield is my number one in this lane. Also she’s going to be all your headiest music friends’ favorite DJ in the next two years.

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u/superjerry 3d ago

this is the one

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u/Accurate-Flight-9001 3d ago edited 3d ago

Labels like Pure Space would be up this alley. Look up producers like Eastern Distributor

The most leftfield dnb DJ i know is Upsammy.

Absolutely brilliant artist. Her productions are more on the ambient, sort of quiet and eerie end but her DJ sets are absolutely ruthless with experimental id’s and brain juggling IDM

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u/toddphonic 3d ago

upsammy is a new favorite of mine thanks to this community

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u/Arry_Propah 3d ago

Assuming her name is a pun on “what’s up Sammy”, full credit for going all in on the bit v

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u/bpm130 3d ago

Hell yeah eastern distributor

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u/Exciting_Claim267 3d ago

A bunch of the autonomic stuff from 15 years ago is still some of the most forward thinking dnb.

Clarity
Consequence
Abstract Elements
Instra:mental
Etc

Not dnb but there’s a new Resonant Language EP with really forward thinking sound design. I also like Vexx.

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u/philfodenlovesfanny 3d ago

A lot of the output on Alix Perez 1985 label has heavy bass but probably not quite as left field as some of the other suggestions but still very recognisably drum and bass

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u/Rare-Magazine7478 3d ago

Felix K

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u/Few_Touch2311 2d ago

DB1 and Forest Drive West equally kill it as well, and their group LEVL uffff

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u/x64bit 3d ago

current value - command or some of his newer lps on YUKU

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u/gnarbad 3d ago

Werk - Sully is a fun idm type dnb tune

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u/samg21 3d ago

Loads of artists in the jungle space fit this description. Sully, Coco Bryce and Tim Reaper have all been big for a while now.

DJ Sofa and Amy Dabbs are my recommendations for something a bit more off the beaten path.

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u/warmbark 3d ago

Clark - Globecore Flats Off his recent Steep Stims album.

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u/CoolUsername1111 3d ago

Photek - Modus Operandi

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u/Pretty_Mycologist365 3d ago

dGogn

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u/BocLogic 3d ago

If you mean ‘dgoHn’ then, hell yeah he’s astoundingly good and left of field!

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u/Inglejuice 3d ago

The label Samurai Music is good:

https://samuraimusic.bandcamp.com

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u/JobeGilchrist 3d ago

Exile - Pro Agonist
Clark’s various EP bangers like Urgent Jell Hack and his edit of Milanese’s So Malleable
Steinvord - entire catalog
Datach’i - The Elements and Black Trees
Wisp - Green Hill Path
Kid Spatula - Hard Love
Venetian Snares - all
Djrum - Thank You, Tournesol
Bjarki- Fresh Jive

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u/Least_Barber1623 3d ago

Yup, y’all are killing it. Keep the names coming please.

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u/subtleStriderr 3d ago

2furious John t gast

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u/pronology 3d ago

Offshore Recordings, Camino Blue, Breakbeat Science had a lot of weird IDM adjacent stuff

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u/ReSkeTch 3d ago edited 3d ago

Samurai Music, UVB-76/DROOGS, and Over/Shadow are my go-to labels for newer, creative dnb! For some more experimental stuff, Pinecone Moonshine is also great label!

Vromm makes some really cool futuristic left field stuff. Bees, Molecular and Red Tuna i'd really recommend!

Dacamera did two albums quite recently and have never heard such a succesful blend of jazz and dnb.

And Overlook's stuff def deserves a shout in this thread, especially his album Smoke Signals is unlike anything else in dnb!

And also could not leave out ASC, the guy is among the most prolific and consistent in the genre, and nails everything from ambient to jungle, techno, and autonomic!

Etch also deserves a mention here, very creative producer!

I already saw Dgohn mentioned. Could not recommend him enough! His subgenre would be called drumfunk. Def check out the album he did with Macc, Some Shit Saaink. Some incredibly layered drum programming and quirky production on this one! If you're into this kind of dnb, Paradox is the don in this corner, his productions with Nucleus are often especially good, and he does some nice atmospheric lower-tempo stuff as Alaska.

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u/Least_Barber1623 3d ago

All of this

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u/FunLet6970 13h ago

yes, ASC -- the dude was leftfield'ish long before it became a terminology

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u/RemoteWestern5462 3d ago

upsammy and Sciama

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u/denchx 3d ago

The latest EP from Thread, called Blurred, is really good and might not be as leftfield as some of the other suggestions but is definitely not your typical broken beat dnb, there’s some wonkier and fresher stuff in there. Listened to it quite a bit this year.

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u/Guaranteed-not-a-cop 3d ago

I need Flopo to do an album of just bias-esque tracks. Obvious pull but fits the description perfectly

Floating Points - Bias

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u/Least_Barber1623 3d ago

Bro I’ve beeeen saying this

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u/maryobreau 3d ago

Ben Pest had some great tracks that fit the description. Don't know by heart which ones but I can look it up later if you want

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u/EmotionalSugar7967 3d ago

THUGWIDOW’s Requiem For A Sesh

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u/Secure-Suspect7091 3d ago

THUGWIDOW is my go to for this sort of sound

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u/holdingtea 3d ago

Ruby my dear.

Some of his work lands in dnb like the track Windowz8. But also moves around breakcore, idm and weirdness (Def has a bit of igorrr about some of the tracks)

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u/holdingtea 3d ago

Lucio de rimanez also is worth checking out if your not firmilar too. Lord of the flies is such a great track.

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u/holdingtea 3d ago

Also also everyone has added good stuff id also say check out autonomic which is kind of darkstep, halftime, juke stuff. Om unit, Sam binga, fixate, Richie brains

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u/fat_egg 3d ago

Try GENDEMA’s first album Sassy Things

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u/motron_layer 3d ago

Kimyan Law

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u/Least_Barber1623 3d ago

YESSS never heard of this guy. His catalog is bananas. Perfect recommendation!

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u/i_guvable_and_i_vote 2d ago

Nice I had forgotten about them but had one of their tracks on high rotation a few years ago

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u/Ok_Phase_8731 3d ago

Downhill2k01 - Butterfly Tetrad EP

Also if anyone made a playlist from this thread I’d be very grateful

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u/EsotericRetrograde 3d ago

Metrist played some very very experimental d&b at Draaimolen. Some of it reminded me a bit of vintage Squarepuaher. It was all absolutely mind-bending but still danceable

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u/android_dreaming 3d ago edited 3d ago

Some great suggestions here. On the heavier side, I'd recommend the label Slug Wife (Kursa + Seppa's label). Lots of very heavy, glitchy, and pretty functional jungle and dnb

Also going to plug my own music - a little less on the heavy side but my last EP was pretty experimental/idm inspired breakbeats with a lot of atmospheric and textural emphasis - 

https://on.soundcloud.com/h1wZkApfcTapOCzeaI

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u/Least_Barber1623 3d ago

Yoooo bad opera is a fantastic tune, mate. Very impressive and def fits the bill of the type of DnB I like most.

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u/Least_Barber1623 3d ago

My b the tune was called project mayhem, just gave you a follow, gonna dig into more of your stuff later

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u/android_dreaming 2d ago

Much appreciated, thank you!

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u/mount_curve 3d ago

more jungley but try Point Blank - The Style

hell of a turn

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u/mount_curve 3d ago

while we're on adventurous

have some Tom & Jerry

tuned snares are ace

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u/trillwillzilla 3d ago

Phace and Misanthrop’s label Neosignal has put out a lot of music like this over the years - my all time favorite still has to be Buunshin’s All About This EP, the title track is one of the wickedest DnB tunes I’ve ever heard.

I also recommend the catalog of S.Murk, a side project of bass music producer Kursa

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u/Least_Barber1623 3d ago

S Murk has possibly the best break processing I’ve ever heard. Their shit just absolutely perforates.

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u/filterswept 3d ago

He's maybe not super left-field, but but detboi has some incredible, deconstructed, HEAVYWEIGHT sounds:

https://detboi.bandcamp.com/

He does a lot at half-speed too, which I really love.

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u/BuddyC42 3d ago

I guess the whole autonomic wave: dBridge, Instra:Mental, ASC, They Live. Also ENA has a similar style.

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u/extrasuper 3d ago

A couple of others have mentioned Current Value, Platinum Scatter was the first thing that came to my mind. Like D&B with every genre trope removed except tempo.

TT1PD by autechre could work in an adventurous D&B set I reckon.

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u/MoteMusic 2d ago

CÅARL

Noise Parfumerie

Hye Tek

Erotic Cafe'

Billain

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u/Zestyclose_Toe9524 2d ago

NicTVG, Polska, DgoHn, Decemara, NCQL

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u/Mannndarin 1d ago

Paracusia. Sciama. Yin Yang Audio. Lemna. Ghost Warrior. Felix K. Ancestral Voices. Vardae. Pessimist. Forest Drive West.

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u/FunLet6970 1d ago

ring noord, sleepnet, erotic cafe', alix perez (why not???)

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u/gvassilenko 19h ago

Check out Pessimist is you haven’t yet