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Autonomic

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Despite the genre's future-forward and experimental beginnings in the early 90s, drum & bass' rigid uniformity over the last decade has made it a stifling environment for many producers. For dBridge, with his background as a former member of the drum & bass heavyweight champions Bad Company, the pressure of dancefloor expectations and DJs' desire for club smashers has been experienced and rejected once in his career already. Since going solo he has been busy developing a more cultured sound that has carved him a niche in a music scene from which he was feeling increasingly removed from. Instra:mental meanwhile, having had a successful stint in drum & bass some years earlier, returned to D&B production in the mid 00s with a uniquely fresh approach. Inspired by 80s synth music, the Detroit sound and the Warp back catalogue, and with a studio fully loaded with vintage hardware equipment, they set about writing drum & bass unlike anyone else; a method that struck a chord with a like-minded soul in dBridge.

"We wanted to showcase what it is that we're doing, and what the sound is capable of, we approached all the people making music we love, and asked them to write us something special for the CD: artists like Distance, Skream, Scuba, Genotype all came with bits at 85 or 170 BPM and it's good stuff, fresh and original. It's a great collection of music, harmonically it all works together; as much as we have different styles, you'd be surprised what tunes stick together just from being in key. We managed to get 32 tracks on it and tried to make it a seamless journey. "
Instra:mental

After a year in which Instra:mental collaborated with dBridge on the epic 'Blush Response', they decided to form a creative alliance as Autonomic. As a result a club night, a podcast, an umbrella for their labels, and, most crucially, a style was born. The Autonomic sound is music first, drum & bass second. The people behind it are not setting out to make a drum & bass track; they are setting out simply to make music, producing compositions that are emotionally charged, personally edifying and organic. This is a million miles from the music-by-numbers churned out by so many of today's producers; this is lovingly crafted with integrity, with vision and without the limitations of genre or style that so many artists impose on themselves. And with the likes of Jimmy Edgar, Kyle Hall and Zomby lined up to release on Instra:mental's NonPlus+ label in 2010, it's fair to say that the trio are far from losing pace - they're only just getting started.


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Tracklisting:

  1. Listen
    1
    Riya
    Seems Like
    Exit Records
  2. Listen
    2
    Instra:mental
    From The Start
    NonPlus+
  3. Listen
    3
    Stray
    Pushed
    Exit Records
  4. Listen
    4
    Dan Habarnam
    Nu Este Roz
    Exit Records
  5. Listen
    5
    Vaccine
    Ochre
    NonPlus+
  6. Listen
    6
    ASC
    Starkwood (Consequence Remix)
    Unreleased
  7. Listen
    7
    Consequence
    Lover's Shell
    Exit Records
  8. Listen
    8
    Distance
    Sky's Alight (Dub)
    Unreleased
  9. Listen
    9
    Alix Perez
    Self Control
    Shogun Audio
  10. Listen
    10
    Genotype
    Distorted Dreams
    Genotype
  11. Listen
    11
    Meleka
    Go (Accapella)
    Meleka
  12. Listen
    12
    Instra:mental
    End Credits
    NonPlus+
  13. Listen
    13
    Instra:mental
    Watching You
    NonPlus+
  14. Listen
    14
    Instra:mental
    Fist (Level 2B Mix)
    NonPlus+
  15. Listen
    15
    Consequence
    11 Circles (ASC Remix)
    Exit Records
  16. Listen
    16
    dBridge
    I Know
    Exit Records
  17. Listen
    17
    Instra:mental
    Encke Gap
    NonPlus+
  18. Listen
    18
    Loxy & Genotype
    Farah's Theme
    Exit Records
  19. Listen
    19
    dBridge
    Inner Disbelief (Accapella)
    Exit Records
  20. Listen
    20
    Pearson Sound
    Down With You
    Darkestral
  21. Listen
    21
    Scuba
    Tense (dBridge Remix)
    Hotflush Recordings
  22. Listen
    22
    Instra:mental
    No Future (Consequence Remix)
    NonPlus+
  23. Listen
    23
    Code 3
    Living Proof
    Exit Records
  24. Listen
    24
    Consequence Ft. Instra:mental
    Reflex Reaction
    Exit Records
  25. Listen
    25
    ASC
    Phobos
    NonPlus+
  26. Listen
    26
    Skream
    Fire Call
    Exit Records
  27. Listen
    27
    Instra:mental
    Machine Made
    NonPlus+
  28. Listen
    28
    dBridge
    Love Hotel
    Exit Records
  29. Listen
    29
    dBridge
    The Dim Light
    Exit Records
  30. Listen
    30
    Scuba
    Eclipse
    Paul Rose
  31. Listen
    31
    ASC
    Ubiquity Incident
    NonPlus+
  32. Listen
    32
    Abstract Elements
    Abysmal Depth
    Exit Records
  33. Listen
    33
    Actress
    Gen Ohn (Screwed Version)
    Werk Discs
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