Artist: Alix Perez, Icicle & Switch
Label: Shogun Audio
Release Date: 2008-05-08
Track Length: 5 minutes 41 seconds

Some blissed out liquid jazzstep from this concoction of producers on the ever-ready Shogun imprint. Soulful liquid rollers like this for some reason are very hard to come by at the moment (we blame the cold weather!) so be sure to snap this right up.

Artist: KG
Label: Frequency Records
Release Date: 2008-05-08
Track Length: 5 minutes 11 seconds

The likes of Hype, Blame, Andy C and High Contrast have all been rinsing the bollocks off of this and rightly so, it's a huge anthem! The first release in a while from Ram's sister label Frequency but it has certainly been worth the wait!

Artist: Martsman
Label: Medschool
Release Date: 2008-05-09
Track Length: 6 minutes 10 seconds

SICK! Bridging the gap perfectly between dubstep and techstep (in much a same way as Zinc's legendary remix of Skream's 'Midnight Request Line') comes this filthy bastard of a record from Martsman. A superb release from Hospital offshoot Medschool.

Artist: Sabre & Vicious Circle
Label: Critical Music
Release Date: 2008-04-30
Track Length: 6 minutes 37 seconds

Critical Music has carved itself a niche as a champion of the next wave of DnB - both in style and by showcasing new talented producers. This release is no different with Sabre & Vicious Circle killing the deeper beats. Mood music.

Artist: Mark Tailor
Label: Foul Play Records
Release Date: 2008-05-02
Track Length: 6 minutes 05 seconds

Mark Tailor is one angry young man! Eleven tracks of terrifying industrial edged drum and bass that comes over like Panacea. We think aliens are communicating through this man and they're seriously pissed! Ferocious.

Artist: Replicator
Label: Mindsaw Recordings
Release Date: 2008-05-02
Track Length: 5 minutes 18 seconds

Do you want to scare your listeners and pummel them into submission? If the answer is yes then you must have these. Six new releases of industrial monster breaks that verges of gabba and horror movie sounds. This lot want to break up your braincells.

Artist: Chronicle
Label: Fokuz Recordings
Release Date: 2008-05-03
Track Length: 8 minutes 22 seconds

Fokuz have been flexing their muscle of late and this analogue liquid effort is yet another notch in their keyboard. Soaring sounds perfect pads give this a psychedelic edge that'll have the 'floor drifting off into another realm of blissful beats. Nice.

Artist: Catacomb
Label: Syndrome Audio
Release Date: 2008-05-03
Track Length: 5 minutes 59 seconds

Noisia love it! Black Sun Empire rinse it! What more do you need to know? The perfect mid-point between tearing techstep and pure rinseout Catacomb is just one of FOUR awesome new slabs of mood music out today from Syndrome Audio. An overdose of brutal street beats.

Artist: Blame
Label: Charge
Release Date: 2008-05-05
Track Length: 4 minutes 44 seconds

What do we like the most about this? Easily the best new release of the week in a staggering FOUR PAGES of DnB, Blame tears it up with this urgent and epic piece of pure danger! It's no surprise the man has been all over Radio One and Kiss FM of late. It's like three big tunes rolled into one and we love every tiny little detail. Beast.

Artist: Blame
Label: Charge
Release Date: 2008-05-05
Track Length: 5 minutes 12 seconds

The big dog has been on a roll lately. Cinematic soundtrack business is his new flavour and this is epic to the hilt. Mampi Swift is on top of his game by signing up this legend - big props. Here's betting that Blame will be scoring hollywood blockbuster movies within the next few years. High drama.

Artist: ZINC
Remixer: DJ Krust
Label: Bingo Beats
Release Date: 2008-05-05
Track Length: 6 minutes 18 seconds

With these beats you are spoiling us Mr Krust! The baron of Bristol gets physical with six minutes of classic Full Cycle sounds. Squelchy and highly addictive main room jungle business from a producer who has scaled down his output of late. That makes this a gem that you should keep locked up in a vault marked deadly!

Artist: ZINC
Label: Bingo Beats
Release Date: 2008-05-05
Track Length: 4 minutes 22 seconds

Zinc what you smoking man!? Celebrating a benchmark 80th release (get them all here!), the super sharp shooter rinses out the old skool synth and amen beats with a rollercoaster bassline ride. Drunken robot business that sets the big man out there in his own world of beats. A true legend doing his own thing and smashing it every time.

Artist: TC
Remixer: Clipz
Label: DStyle Recordings
Release Date: 2008-05-05
Track Length: 4 minutes 07 seconds

Who the badman!? Clipz and TC deliver double trouble on the most eagerly awaited remix this year. A brockout anthem for the skinted generation inside the ride. Punk rock drum and bass from the west that's the soundtrack to your nights spent in saving money for the next big dance. Standard!

Artist: Markoman & Tsunami
Label: Temper D Productions
Release Date: 2008-05-05
Track Length: 6 minutes 15 seconds

Bass, breaks and beats with a little bit of electric guitar on the side! Markoman & Tsunami deliver a storming upbeat beast of a track that is as good as any main arena shockout on site. If you want to find something fresh for your set then download this now and don't tell a soul! Monster!

Artist: Implant & Treo
Label: Temper D Productions
Release Date: 2008-05-05
Track Length: 6 minutes 07 seconds

Switch! Techno style of Jeff Mills meeting Ed Rush & Optical in yet another mash up of underground styles from Temper D Productions. Brilliant production and ideas excellently executed by Implant & Treo. One of four amazing tough new tracks from the label that deserve your attention now!

Artist: The Square
Label: Liquid Brilliants
Release Date: 2008-05-05
Track Length: 5 minutes 38 seconds

TID DnB is a sucker for lush chords and soulful female vox and Liquid Brilliance tick all our boxes. Jazzy future mood music that's just one of four amazing productions in this weeks new releases. Only twelve releases in and this label is making its presence felt. Summer sessions.

Artist: IncIdent
Label: Liquid Brilliants
Release Date: 2008-05-05
Track Length: 5 minutes 56 seconds

Going from strength to strength, Liquid Brilliance label delivers another four tracks of pure summer vibes. Awesome production and elegant bulky beats create an epic journey into the deeper liquid vibes. A mind massage.

Artist: Various
Label: Ohm Resistance
Release Date: 2008-05-06
Track Length: 150 minutes 24 seconds

Two and a half hours of classic sounding techstep? Yes please! Ohm Resistance comes across like a mixture of vintage Renegade Hardware and No U-turn all rolled into one. With such a volume of music these guys are going to be one to watch over the coming months. Big, bad and heavy.

Artist: sinthetix
Label: Ohm Resistance
Release Date: 2008-05-06
Track Length: 121 minutes 48 seconds

18 tracks of pure deep bass techstep for only £7.49? Ohm Resistance must be loving you lot! Sinthetix delivers a monster body of work that's space age and out of this world. Pure headphone business for the blazing massive.

Artist: High Contrast
Label: Hospital Records
Release Date: 2008-05-02
Track Length: 5 minutes 57 seconds

Jonny L comes with the 'Piper' vibes all over the excellent High Contrast album cut Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Showing why he's still one of the biggest fish in the pool, the Piranha man destroys this cut with his trademark steel snares and warped edits. A monster.

Artist: DJ Pleasure
Label: Blueprint Recordings
Release Date: 2008-05-01
Track Length: 4 minutes 26 seconds

Coming like Hazard, Blueprint protege DJ Pleasure drops two slabs of growling thunder and bass onto the 'floor. The Wizard and Colt 45 are bad to the bone and will rattle your cage. If you like heavy drum and bass then this will be right up your alley.

Artist: LOXY & AMANING
Label: Sudden Def
Release Date: 2008-05-01
Track Length: 7 minutes 24 seconds

Like double decker buses, Sudden Def drop three incredible releases on us in one go! Six tracks of turbo-charged techstep vie for our attention and so you might as well own them all. Strikeforce by Loxy & Amaning is only the tip of the iceberg. Dive in!

Artist: UltraBlack
Label: Binge Records
Release Date: 2008-05-01
Track Length: 6 minutes 01 seconds

UltraBlack bring the darkness! Following on from their awesome debut on TID a couple weeks back we welcome dubsteps dark soldiers with another three tracks of savage dungeon beats. Paranoid high-tech shoot em up business.

Artist: The Qemists
Remixer: Spor
Label: Ninja Tune
Release Date: 2007-12-03
Track Length: 5 minutes 43 seconds

Second track of the new Fabric Live compilation selected by the mighty Nosia, the Spor remix of Ninja Tune junglists The Qemists is full bore tech action. Grimey to the absolute max.

Artist: No Money
Label: Esprit Records
Release Date: 2008-04-30
Track Length: 5 minutes 55 seconds

Czech DnB producer No Money delivers an excellent jump up monster on Esprit Records. We love the vibe of the intro and reckon this is one producer to watch in the future. Original vibes throughout.

Artist: Clipz
Label: Trackitdown
Release Date: 2008-04-28
Track Length: 56 minutes 12 seconds

Bristol's champion jump-up man has had us shouting 'You're chatting rubbish' for the last six months! Injecting some humour into the dance, Clipz has quite rightly become one of the biggest playaz in the dnb scene. Here is his latest chart return for April, excloosive to TID.

Artist: Technicolour
Label: Technique Records
Release Date: 2008-04-23
Track Length: 6 minutes 33 seconds

TID's favourite jump up label sits back and reflects on the meaning of life with this incredible blissed-out and jazz-infused piece of future funk to surround the soul. Flip track Empty is anything but and demonstrates the range of talent Simon Bassline Smith has on speed dial.

Artist: Drumsound & Bassline Smith
Label: Technique Records
Release Date: 2008-04-16
Track Length: 4 minutes 58 seconds

Welcome To The Jungle is about as welcoming as Lurch is to the Adam's Family home - brooding and with that hint of malice. The perfect deep flip to the massive Body Pump. Technique come knocking on your door once again in 2008 with another heavyweight first class delivery

Artist: Clipz
Label: Audio Zoo
Release Date: 2008-04-21
Track Length: 5 minutes 08 seconds

Beats so nice we had to feature them twice! Clipz does a TC and drafts in some excellent distorted female angst on this savage drum and bass beast. Bristol once again rules the raves. Salute!

Artist: Clipz
Label: Audio Zoo
Release Date: 2008-04-21
Track Length: 5 minutes 08 seconds

The man who pretty much provided the rave sound track to 2007 gatecrashes this year with a double header of mammoth proportion. Offline is a screaming demon that registers a straight 8 on the Richter scale. This will be supported by all the headliners from Andy C to Hazard and everyone in between. Absolutely T for tremendous!

Artist: Modified Motion
Label: XS
Release Date: 2008-04-21
Track Length: 5 minutes 07 seconds

Modified Motion has been threatening the premier league for some time now and this has to be the clincher. The Darkness is high drama and maximum damage for the main arena all over planet drum and bass and beyond! A blockbuster without a doubt.

Artist: DJ Escape
Label: Musik Hertz
Release Date: 2008-04-21
Track Length: 5 minutes 12 seconds

Birmingham dnb Stalwart DJ Escape drops a solid double header on Musik Hertz. TID heads straight for Fear Of The Future, a pure jump up slab that's gonna be big with MC's and DJ's alike. Heavyweight beats for the street from an artist to watch.

Artist: Drunken Masters Featuring Benny Page
Label: Dope Ammo
Release Date: 2008-04-21
Track Length: 6 minutes 16 seconds

Shy FXs protege Benny Page gets on it with the Drunken Masters and cooks up a 2008 re-lick of the reggae classic. This is pure dancehall jungle mash-up business that's gonna be up-town top rankin with Kenny Ken, Hype, Nicky Blackmarket and all the old skool soldiers still on patrol. Sample spotters check the flip 'Dub Criminal'.

Artist: Lynx Featuring Malibu Rhodes
Label: Sonorous
Release Date: 2008-04-21
Track Length: 5 minutes 55 seconds

Mr Disco Dodo is on a mission to reshape the world of dnb. Both Shame On and the flip track Envy explore the edge of the universe and return with new sounds and style. Anyone into the scene has to be diggin' this space age funk from the new pioneers.

Artist: Vital Elements
Label: V2E
Release Date: 2008-04-21
Track Length: 5 minutes 15 seconds

Vital Elements had a massive 2007, releasing tracks on Grid and Zombie as well as his own V2E imprint and remixing Tribe Of Issachara's massive Junglist classic 'Wardance' as one half of Serial Killaz. Launching into 2008, Vital Elements's V2E Recordings hits hard with two massive Jump Up monsters. Big tings a gwan for these leaders of the nu skool.

Artist: Mindscape
Label: Resolute
Release Date: 2008-04-21
Track Length: 5 minutes 21 seconds

For a first release one has to salute the Resolute. Malfunction is gritty and groovy is equal measure and sounds like exactly the type of beat The Executioner would eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner. We're a sucker for old skool Belgian pianos too it has to be said... More please

Artist: Jaydan
Label: Smokin Riddims
Release Date: 2008-04-21
Track Length: 4 minutes 29 seconds

Jungle ain't nothin' but ragga and guns! Rising don Jaydan taps right into the main vein with this growling brute of a tune. Big breaks, bass and brockout riddims deliver a worthy addition to any selector's CD wallet. Smokin'

Artist: Intelligent Manners
Label: Liquid Brilliants
Release Date: 2008-04-21
Track Length: 5 minutes 40 seconds

Soulful liquid brilliance from the ever steady Intelligent Manners. Sounds like ambient funkers Lemon Jelly on a jungle tip and we love its soundtrack and melancholy vibes. Beautiful beats for true aficionados and real players.

Artist: Dirty Harry
Label: Frontline Records
Release Date: 2008-04-21
Track Length: 5 minutes 04 seconds

Rinse out at the OK Coral! Long time hired gun Dirty Harry AKA the mighty DJ Hazard rides in at high noon to dispense street justice to the dance floor. Old skool breaks and militant bass makes this quick on the draw.

Artist: Pendulum
Label: Warner Bros. Records
Release Date: 2008-04-18
Track Length: 5 minutes 22 seconds

Taken from the highly anticipated forthcoming album In Silico which drops here very soon. 'Propane Nightmares' is all over Radio One and is set to soundtrack a summer of festival mayhem as Pendulum take up their place as heirs to The Prodigy. This VIP is for all the real headz.

Artist: Various
Label: Insectmind
Release Date: 2008-04-18
Track Length: 46 minutes 34 seconds

Seattle based Insectmind weighs in heavy with a new 10 track compilation featuring talent from around the Globe. Highlight is Flippin by Tempa's very own Hatcha who has been blazing with his Benga collabs. Personal for the TID steppaz is Place's Cargo Ship which is an underwater adventure and recommend.

Artist: Drumsound & Bassline Smith Feat. Youngman MC
Label: Technique Records
Release Date: 2008-04-16
Track Length: 6 minutes 30 seconds

One of TID's favourites comes back once again with a vocal led dancefloor charger to fire up the weekend. It's like Christmas and birthdays when Drumsound and Bassline Smith drop the bomb and this is nuclear. 2008 looks set to be another major one for Technique!

Artist: Goldie presents Rufige Kru
Label: Metalheadz
Release Date: 2007-07-18
Track Length: 6 minutes 25 seconds

Taken from the recent Rufige Kru album - Goldie's original production outfit - this deep tech roller features on Bryan G's Knowledge magazine covermount recorded live at Movement. Who are we to argue with the V Recording's main man?

Artist: Fresh ft. MC Darrison
Label: V Recordings UK
Release Date: 2007-10-18
Track Length: 5 minutes 26 seconds

Bryan G features this on his Live at Movement CD on the cover of this issue of Knowledge dnb bible. Pure V Recordings classic that needs to be in every mans record collection - bare skills.

Artist: DJ Die & Roni Size
Remixer: Utah Jazz
Label: V Recordings UK
Release Date: 2007-10-18
Track Length: 6 minutes 00 seconds

Featured on the covermount CD of the new issue of Knowledge magazine, 'It's a Jazz Thing' is more than a classic - it's part of the very foundations of drum and bass. Bryan G knows the Bobby Moore!

Artist: Ultrablock
Label: Foul Play Records
Release Date: 2008-04-15
Track Length: 4 minutes 30 seconds

TID's favourite American dubsteppers deliver yet another ear-rape. Like Spinal Tap they turn the bass up to 11 and leave you to fry! We have been checking out their awesome DJ mixes on their myspace. Try it if you dare... keep out of reach of children.

Artist: Electrosoul System
Label: Camino Blue Recordings
Release Date: 2008-04-11
Track Length: 5 minutes 42 seconds

Future Engineers have been delivering audio excellence since the days of Bukem and Intelligent DnB. Here they flex once again with an awesome remix for Camino Blue that we hope doesn't slip under the radar. It's tunes like this that showcase the future.

Artist: N-Phonix
Label: Fokuz Limited Recordings
Release Date: 2008-04-14
Track Length: 6 minutes 33 seconds

Rolling out the liquid on a summer morning is one of life's little pleasures. N Phonix delivers an incredible anthem of breakbeat bliss that'll help make life just that little bit better. Fokuz Recs strike again!

Artist: Lyptikal
Label: Finn People
Release Date: 2008-04-14
Track Length: 4 minutes 37 seconds

Mickey Finn, king of the wobbly bass signs yet another young gun to his mighty Finn People label. As expected this is in your face bass that's gonna overload the dance and destroy braincells at 100 paces. In other words - pure rave!

Artist: Digital Era
Label: Radical Beats
Release Date: 2008-04-14
Track Length: 6 minutes 26 seconds

Highlight from the brand new 4 track EP from the ever more influential Radical Beats posse. A great summer roller that incorporates the uplifting piano vibes from the legendary Hill St Blues TV show. Classic feeling.

Artist: Modified Motion & Faction
Label: Dynamic Audio
Release Date: 2008-04-14
Track Length: 5 minutes 48 seconds

Kool FM heroes Modified Motion delivers yet another sucker punch on Dynamic Audio. Heavy rotation at all the big raves from key playaz this is full on jump up at its baddest. If you like this you'll love the flip too!