April: 10 drum 'n' bass tunes you need to hear this month

Black Sun Empire feat Noisia 'The Veil' (Blackout)

Dutch trio BSE have been banging out anthemic dark-matter tech since 2000, and the only Dutch trio to do it better have now joined them for this delicious collab. If you’re a fan of Noisia’s tech acrobatics, you’ll be swimming in the good stuff here: staircases of dark angel voices spiral us up to a precipitous drop, swathed in brutally agile snares and tasering synths. It’s an utterly engrossing high-spec assault, riddled with the ceaselessly inventive drum patterns and calligraphic bassline mosaics we now take for granted from our top-table beat scientists. Imagine if Bad Company had dropped this in 2000?

9/10