Drum 'N' Bass
April: 10 drum 'n' bass tunes you need to hear this month
Bop, Black Sun Empire, Noisia and more
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
