SKELECONE 07 released: 5th February 2021

“Part roller, part fog horn, with a touch of darkside. Screeching growls underpinned by a thuddy sub, backed with a classic break setting the groove, after a tense musical build up in the introduction, it should all provide a suitable sway and a tight rumbling for any soundsystem.”

Big up DJ Quantize for playing “Post Traumatic” on @DNBNetworkradio
I’m a long time listener and he always plays fresh beats, so buzzing to hear one of mine in there.😊 Thank you.https://t.co/IVsOhfLdvD

— Nexlev (@NEXLEVdnb) March 1, 2021

New track “Maybe Later” with its sub underlying a rhythmic off-beat mid-bass giving it a sway kind of feel around that jump up snare.

Out on 22nd January 2021, I released “Bit Of Fizzy.” Reviewed by fellow producer JaySan as a “darkside beast” which, I just had to use as the description when I emailed this out. My description up to that point was something like “Jump Up” and maybe “bubbly.”

Some of the best, most exciting drum and bass out there have some kind of vocal sample in there. Whether it be singing sampled from an old record, sampled lyrics from classic hip hop, a sample from a film or TV series, or just Dillinja going “HO!” Using the human voice as a melodic, textural, rhythmic or comic element in a tune almost always makes it sound better.

20th November 2020. That cursed year. The end of which I’d begun executing my master plan of releasing a steady stream of records. A lockdown during a pandemic. After going through the motions of terror and mostly accepting them, opportunity wafted out from the flames like a massive eagle. This was going to be a big one (plan).

This track started out as a stop-starter, as opposed to a liquid roller. These micro stops perhaps create a disjointed movement. As halloween approached and I was looking for samples I remembered a projected I had worked on a decade previous, a horror story. “Porkface” by Alan Tynan, I was asked to contribute to with my little sound engineering experience. Inspired by Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween, Alan had assembled a small team to make his disturbing project come to life. This meant recording voice actors and actresses, and at one point I even got asked to play one of the characters. I was always shy of acting so when I had to scream as if I was being chopped up with a chainsaw, it was a mixture of nervousness then hilarity. How can one seriously take a script where your character gets chopped up?

Welcome to the NEXLEV stream of Drum and Bass productions for a plagued millennium. The first track to drop is “Unveiling” and is a taster of tracks to come in 2021 under NEXLEV. Check it out: