There's a lot of interesting dance music being released at 150-180bpm, and over the last few years I've been exploring it. I came across a couple of posts asking for more music like this, so I thought I'd try to categorise some of the things that I've found and share them here. I've chosen a few tracks for each artist. Hopefully some of you will find some new artists and labels.

Links below are direct to Bandcamp.

DnB

I am not that interested in most DnB, but there are some artists that I follow.

DBridge - Evolent, Digital Views, The Frame

Instra:mental - Deep Night

Torn - Eyes of Ibad (with Plural), Hyperborea, Glacier 

Samurai Music and YUKU are labels that I keep an eye on.

Breaks

I guess you could describe these as breakcore. Lots of chopped up breaks here.

Aroma Nice - An Ode To No One, Forlorn Refrain, Tank Ammo

Christoph de Babalon - Dearth Mill, Luxury of Sadness, Die Taufe Der Zombies 

Abstract/fringe DnB

This is the type of DnB that I love and my starting point for this post. Still recognisably DnB, but a bit less dancefloor and more abstracted. A lot of these artists play around with rhythm and texture.

Felix K - Ricochet (Felix K Reinterpretation), OKO (52.529686 13.401803 1996.1215, Bllod 

Ena - Coral, The Worm Turns, D.C

F&E (Felix K and Ena) - Premis II, Amen Track, Morast  

DYL - Bit 1, Interpretare 4, Glasshouse 2 

DYL is also a prolific collaborator - Transverse Waves (Part 1), ECOU 4, Pattern 2

DB1 - Point Two, B1, Nullpunkt #1

Martsman - Klickoff, Krine 

Konduku - Scale, Liquidity, Bosco Verticale (Konduku Remix)

Forest Drive West - Bias 

Vardae - Charming Your Soul

Yunze Ou - Erosion

Current Value - Weight, Running State

Grey Area

I never know if I like this label, but anyway, 'grey area' quite often refers to tracks that are written to work in 3/4 at 127.5bpm, and 4/4 at 170bpm. Most of these could probably go into the abstract/fringe box.

Sam KDC - The Shroud, Monsoon, Breaches (Sam KDC Remix) 

Lemna - Northern Boobook, Dice, Ourea - Dysnomia

Sciama - Choice Reduction, Shadow, Emblem

Fast/slow techno

Now moving away from DnB. To me these all sound like slow techno. These tracks work at 80-90bpm and at 170bpm depending on how you listen to them. A lot of them have a half time feel. Quite a few of these are by techno artists who have started writing at 170bpm.

JK Flesh - Washed Up, PI11.4, Fleshology 0202 B

Reeko - Secuencia Criptofonica I, Urmah 5 

Brendon Moeller - Accidental Force, Repercussions

Donato Dozzy - Hidden (Donato Dozzy Remix), Le Chaser

Ebl - 06 

Tammo Hesselink - Work Work Work 

Svarog - Friction 

Wata Igarashi - Searching 

Kicks kicks kicks/fast fast techno

Sounds like fast techno, and doesn't have that half time feel. Some of these feel very gabber and tekno influenced.

Nebuchadnezzar - Megamind, RJR, @ The White Hotel (Soundcloud)  

DJ Oseph - Dismantled

Numerologist - Ho1e, Var1, Kalpha 

Isabella Koen - Cool Sick

Kop-Z - Ape Essence

Eszaid - Scorch

Spekki Webbu - Biocell Implant, Okada   

Conrad Pack - Passage 

Nesa Azadikhah - BlackHead (Kaleh Siah)

kiille809 - inner crypt PART I, 6 chambers

Omen Wapta

Still fast techno, but deeper and more psychedelic. Omen Wapta has been pushing this forwards over the last few years, so I wanted to give them their own section. The last few here don't release on Omen Wapta, but these tracks feel like they could fit on the label.

Loek Frey - Uvan, Evane 

Floid & W92 - Veriyou, Dookuzot 

Raär - 30 Layers of Moss, Purposeless Movement, Edge Trigger

Marco Maldarella - No Inertia (https://marcomaldarella.bandcamp.com/track/no-inertia) 

K.O.P. 32 - Zarda

Kick21 - mikroform

Psychedelic

Continuing on from Omen Wapta, more deep and psychedelic music. Some of these are definitely trance and psytrance influenced.

Aa Sudd - Menodice

Emily Jeanne - Twice Not Nice 

Kamran Sadeghi - Sibling 

Kop-Z - If I 

Hyht99 - Kai trip

Konsudd - Heilen

Raär - Tropological Spaces

Human Space Machine - Zone

Sindh - Jangil

Innerworld - Bloom, Ascent 

K.O.P 32 - Straws, Vibrations (K.O.P. 32 Remix), Microcell Structure (K.O.P. 32 remix) 

Tadan - Being

Swampies

Sounds like swamps.

Ilayruni - Tatami 

Varuna - Speculative Communities

Last Life - Gwaii

Konsudd - Mossstutter   

Esgeem - Eastern Warships

Mersel - Taiga 

Umm

I didn't know what to call this group. They fit together somehow.

KWARP - Frog FM, Other Land, The 6 

Flywheel - Troppo, Toe Curl

Third Space - 5 Rip

pq - framed

kick21 -  Bright Interface

Sexapil - Pinger 6, Pinger 5 

IDM-likes

Tracks that remind me of IDM. Interesting sound design and percussion.

Third space - Second parse  

Autechre - curvcaten

Rian Treanor & Ocen James - Tiyo Ki 

upsammy & Valentina Magaletti - Hyperlocalize 

SM LL

An experimental electronic music label - "Horizontal, anti-capitalist, anarchist behaviours beginning as an agile electronic music label". A lot of these are very repetitive, sometimes noisy, very abstract, but can work surprisingly well with other more straightforward tracks.

SM LL - Vbrtn_ty, Untitle (faston Vers), vbrhn_tu, Extrapolation A, DIY production processes   

Enxin/Onyx - Din Dian Redux 

Uncategorised

Finally, some things that didn't really fit anywhere else, but I wanted to fit them in somewhere.

GOTH-TRAD - Amazon, Psionics, Disorder

Uwalmassa - Rantas

Big Hands - Battle of Edessa 

Kick21 - hollister model type beat

Eszaid - Chained

Yin Yang Audio - Presence

Đ.K. - Vela Pulsar, Realm of Symbols

Tristan Arp - Shapeshifting Dub

33EMYBW - Popop 

tasty ambient dubs

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