Memories of standing in my bedroom parents away for the weekend, me and my mate smoking cannabis resin through buckets ( pop bottles, tin foil and water) then stood in the dark at my decks double dropping this track with other mash up tech step shit them reloading for another double drop, going in hard off my tits with my wingman bouncing around not giving a fuck. .. great times the golden 90's era.
I've always felt like this track is a frantic chase after someone, a fast chase on foot, lots of hiding in doorways. ducking in dark spots, etc. One of the darkest, hardest DnD tracks of all time. The production is second to none and I always come back to it, just phenomenal!
This is the tune that got me into the dark side of DnB, this and "Ya Know Ya Big" by Lemon D. I hadn't heard much in this style until Platinum Breakz was released on Metalheadz. I used to listen to this constantly, it just rollzzzz!!!
Tune I just trip off into my own world with a dillinger track as he was so far ahead of his time and the bass sends chills up my spine and two decades later it sounds as fresh now as it did back then! A bad tune 😎🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
What a pump arse banging tune still to the day this tune is futuristic and timeless and he needs to make a comeback and kick out some more of these big tunes!!! 😎🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
It blows my fuckin mind how fairly recently uploaded vids of Shiners have 4 to 7 thousand more views than this does. This is the kind of stuff that got me into dnb. Pure timelessness.
Pant-Crappingly heavy bizniss. I remember buying Platinum Breaks down at Black Market and when I put the needle on this groove my jaw hit the floor HARD. Ridiculously dark riddim
i remember going to a metalheadz night about a year ago to see dillinja and being well excited to hear the sort of dnb that made him legendary... imagine my dismay when he dropped machete. wasn't impressed
A lot of the original hardcore crew said they were pushing breaks into the dark and promoting darkness, this is 1 aspect encouraged the split between hardcore and jungle
***** It s called Hardstep and Grooverider primarily played it, Fabio too, Randall and Ray Keith a bit and fleetingly Dj Rap but as I remember it, Dillinja and mostly London.
+joe man this is Techstep init? Like Trace & Nico. I'm sure it's defined by that halfstep kick and snare inbetween bars of amens. Dillinja's acid trak is a killer example and Violent killer is a sick example of the half step beat, 'Tech Step' :)
This and violent killa.. Photeks ufo..This is drum and bass for the lover of dirty bass and slippery drums from beyond. Not sure much can come close... Just had to listen to dj producer and Tanith from universe to get a further nostalgic fix of madness.. Luke what did you do to us. My head was only six inches from the sound system the whole set...and I burrowed a hole into the floor. Monsterous..:)
I remember hearing this out some years after it was released When it got rewound Me and a couple of my pals Had to just stand still and salute As the track played from the top
kids who have to listen to the shite that dares to call itself d&b these days have to pigeon hole every tune from our time. techstep, darkstep etc. we called it drum and bass. that's it.
Eh? I still call it Jungle. DnB was a pansy name introduced in the late 90s to try to get Jungle cool again. People need their fads. Always Jungle because that is the realest name for the genre. Also, Bong-Ra Dubstep? LOL
In Czech republic people call early jungle tracks "jungle" , while later ones (with heavy bass) "DnB". Naming it is just a matter of taste. Well I don´t know how I managed to smuggle Bong ra there (although his Megasaurus might be partially considered dubstep), but you´re right :D
+Timo Crompinen In defence of labelling and pigeon holing tunes I think in the digital age it is important to know what to search for to find more of the same. If I searched techstep and found a playlist I might just find more stuff like this. If I just search DnB I'm likely to find Jump Up, Liquid, Neuro... all sorts. Labels are more important today than they were back in the day.
Ahhhh! Youth!! by the way As a huge dark dnb fan i fell in love with several "dungeon-dubstep" artists around the "Fat Kid on Fire " Label, I´d say they get the closest to the feeling of this amazing electronic music, at least they are deep and dark...
@antgto Ya man these are the tunes that got me into DnB as well. A friend gave me a DnB compilation of dillinja for my BD years ago, and from their on I was hooked. I enjoy newer DnB, but it doesn't have the same effect as these old tunes.
dude that's a fucking lie, if you wanna hear drum and bass that's just the right bpm check alix perez or ulterior motive, rockwell stuff, i agree, a lot of the new dnb sucks, but there's still a ton of good producers out there
Dillinja at his best. 96 Grime. A great blend of d and b and jungle, yet welcoming what was possible at the time. This made people wake the fu-- up. Awesome skillz. You clicked on this cos you know. Well done, enjoy the best of what d and b has to offer....
Love it, total classic.. But you can't expect Dillinja to have spent the last twelve years in 1995! What kind of respect would that get him?! You'd all be complaining about how he hadn't moved on!
This got dropped in the Bluenote room at Metalheadz in Club 338 a couple of weeks back. I was in heaven man!! What a night....the best I've had for a few years (and I've been to a few!)
Boer een I've always thought that jungle is more like this "chaotic" irregular rhythm whereas DnB uses regular beat (snare drum), like "DJ Fear - LSD" or "State of Mind - Sun King"
nah , would say dnb is normally faster and has a usually more dark or industrial feel to it. Really subjective to be honest but there was a change in the structure of most Dnb/jungle from the early 90's to late 90's which sum peeps characterize as the change from jungle to dnb.
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20 years on and still a beast
Legendary tune
Legends never die
^ Aye, can't fault the *LEGEND* ✊
@@762mm7 1 'persy' on Headz (@least) from the Dilly Vaults.🔥
We here
Fuck yeah brother.
Memories of standing in my bedroom parents away for the weekend, me and my mate smoking cannabis resin through buckets ( pop bottles, tin foil and water) then stood in the dark at my decks double dropping this track with other mash up tech step shit them reloading for another double drop, going in hard off my tits with my wingman bouncing around not giving a fuck. .. great times the golden 90's era.
Mate this is a beautiful memory.
I think this is my favourite dnb track of all time.
I've always felt like this track is a frantic chase after someone, a fast chase on foot, lots of hiding in doorways. ducking in dark spots, etc.
One of the darkest, hardest DnD tracks of all time.
The production is second to none and I always come back to it, just phenomenal!
Yeah love that description it fits
This is the tune that got me into the dark side of DnB, this and "Ya Know Ya Big" by Lemon D. I hadn't heard much in this style until Platinum Breakz was released on Metalheadz. I used to listen to this constantly, it just rollzzzz!!!
Ja Know Ya Big is a Dillinja track
Still Absolutely tearing in 2022
Heard JJ Frost play this about a year before it came out, must have been end of 95/early 96. Blew the roof off
It was on the first platinum breakz so that’s about right.
no one does a sound like this, music with feeling
This is some of the sickest shit I've ever heard.
2:48 those drums with the crazy reverb are really something
beautifull darkness
Best comment here. Describes it perfectly. Why are so many people trying to be cool and chatting shit about genres. BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS.
Vicious darkness, yet beautiful and haunting.
Tune I just trip off into my own world with a dillinger track as he was so far ahead of his time and the bass sends chills up my spine and two decades later it sounds as fresh now as it did back then! A bad tune 😎🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
A contender for his best work IMO
That hit me like a train
Japanese maglev bullet train
Used to love this.
What a pump arse banging tune still to the day this tune is futuristic and timeless and he needs to make a comeback and kick out some more of these big tunes!!! 😎🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
It blows my fuckin mind how fairly recently uploaded vids of Shiners have 4 to 7 thousand more views than this does. This is the kind of stuff that got me into dnb. Pure timelessness.
Shadow of the beast, and a beast of a track
2nd drop FTW..... Those DRUMS..
2:41 that was my fave evil break!
Utter blue note bliss.
Dont make me cry...
The EQ on these breaks is immaculate.
Absolutely devastating
marvellous stuff - like the flickering line of dead trees too!
Peak D&B.
Pant-Crappingly heavy bizniss. I remember buying Platinum Breaks down at Black Market and when I put the needle on this groove my jaw hit the floor HARD. Ridiculously dark riddim
i remember going to a metalheadz night about a year ago to see dillinja and being well excited to hear the sort of dnb that made him legendary... imagine my dismay when he dropped machete. wasn't impressed
🙈 have to go to a "bluenote" metalheadz night my guy, I'd and when this pandemic shite ever ends
Machete is a sick tune
This track was pushing jungle to the dark side. Not sure but I suppose back in the day that kind of sound was quite uncommon...
A lot of the original hardcore crew said they were pushing breaks into the dark and promoting darkness, this is 1 aspect encouraged the split between hardcore and jungle
***** It s called Hardstep and Grooverider primarily played it, Fabio too, Randall and Ray Keith a bit and fleetingly Dj Rap but as I remember it, Dillinja and mostly London.
+joe man no Fabio didn't play it, it was Rider, Doc Scott, Randall, Ed Rush and the Metalheadz gang, Fabio was always more liquid DnB
Joe butler
No he wasn't because back then you fucktard dnb didnt exist, so go fuck yourself, thanks.
+joe man this is Techstep init? Like Trace & Nico. I'm sure it's defined by that halfstep kick and snare inbetween bars of amens. Dillinja's acid trak is a killer example and Violent killer is a sick example of the half step beat, 'Tech Step' :)
This and violent killa.. Photeks ufo..This is drum and bass for the lover of dirty bass and slippery drums from beyond. Not sure much can come close...
Just had to listen to dj producer and Tanith from universe to get a further nostalgic fix of madness.. Luke what did you do to us. My head was only six inches from the sound system the whole set...and I burrowed a hole into the floor. Monsterous..:)
Brian G played this at the Khemistry rememberance on wednesday, good golly miss molly I nearly lost an eye.
the proper old school dnb that punches a hole in your speakers
Ultimate D
ARGH! have this on an old reid speed mix tape (The Wickedest Master of Them All), glad to finally know who produced it!
I remember hearing this out some years after it was released
When it got rewound
Me and a couple of my pals
Had to just stand still and salute
As the track played from the top
Just f'ing incredible 🔥🔥🔥
kids who have to listen to the shite that dares to call itself d&b these days have to pigeon hole every tune from our time. techstep, darkstep etc. we called it drum and bass. that's it.
+Neu tral You clearly listen to the wrong "dubstep" ;) Tech Itch, Cryptic Minds or Bong Ra might change your opinion.
Eh? I still call it Jungle. DnB was a pansy name introduced in the late 90s to try to get Jungle cool again. People need their fads. Always Jungle because that is the realest name for the genre.
Also, Bong-Ra Dubstep? LOL
In Czech republic people call early jungle tracks "jungle" , while later ones (with heavy bass) "DnB". Naming it is just a matter of taste.
Well I don´t know how I managed to smuggle Bong ra there (although his Megasaurus might be partially considered dubstep), but you´re right :D
+Timo Crompinen In defence of labelling and pigeon holing tunes I think in the digital age it is important to know what to search for to find more of the same. If I searched techstep and found a playlist I might just find more stuff like this. If I just search DnB I'm likely to find Jump Up, Liquid, Neuro... all sorts. Labels are more important today than they were back in the day.
+Neu tral check out Truth - 'The Only Ones'...realer than real
Estilo para sempre!
Estilo assim é jungle
Killer tune!!
this song makes me miss my bass system
badass
90's Dillinja. The absolute standard. What more needs to be said?
Yup yup yup levels
Like the tune like the picture ☢️
Last time I heard the was on a fucking tape!
This mixed with Goldies xray eyes armageddon remix, is the mantle of fucking darkness n light.
Ahhhh! Youth!! by the way As a huge dark dnb fan i fell in love with several "dungeon-dubstep" artists around the "Fat Kid on Fire " Label, I´d say they get the closest to the feeling of this amazing electronic music, at least they are deep and dark...
bet 96 was a good year for the dance
@antgto Ya man these are the tunes that got me into DnB as well. A friend gave me a DnB compilation of dillinja for my BD years ago, and from their on I was hooked. I enjoy newer DnB, but it doesn't have the same effect as these old tunes.
Booooooom!
heinous 😱
A violation to any mans ring piece.
People need to know
love the image. what is the source?
This marked the high point in d+b for me. It was mostly all downhill after '96.
@TVmonstrosity Yes yes yes!
mmm...acid trip
This tune is fucking loco
Those trees
this is one nasty ass tune from hell!!! and i love it
Massive oldschool classic! Check my latest mixset for this tune: www.mixcloud.com/PaulKatz/paul-presents-hardware-again/
fucking wicked track
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!! yeah
Where did this picture come from?
HO - LY shhhhhhhhh
filthy
dude that's a fucking lie, if you wanna hear drum and bass that's just the right bpm check alix perez or ulterior motive, rockwell stuff, i agree, a lot of the new dnb sucks, but there's still a ton of good producers out there
@dazzlet666 Like tell Dillinja ya mean :D
filth
DISGUSTING
They dont make them like they used to:(
That image looks like you're in limbo. Could even be hell.
If you like that image check out "Beksinki". This might even be one of his. Amazing artist.
Suspended bleep makes an appearance 3:35 and 4:40
Hello cheeky, ain't seen you in a while
Dillinja at his best. 96 Grime. A great blend of d and b and jungle, yet welcoming what was possible at the time. This made people wake the fu-- up. Awesome skillz. You clicked on this cos you know. Well done, enjoy the best of what d and b has to offer....
Respect.
All junglist!
I remember when I first heard this.
And this is when I fully understood what brocking out was.
What a time to be alive and in that zone.
Love it, total classic.. But you can't expect Dillinja to have spent the last twelve years in 1995! What kind of respect would that get him?! You'd all be complaining about how he hadn't moved on!
Was amazed by this tune when I first heard it, and that was in about 99. Can't believe this came out in 96!
This got dropped in the Bluenote room at Metalheadz in Club 338 a couple of weeks back. I was in heaven man!! What a night....the best I've had for a few years (and I've been to a few!)
Still sounds futuristic/dystopian as hell and nasty as fuck all these years later….ripping cut.
Still fuckin' incredible 23 years later
This track is deadly
Its a fkn weapon
👊👊👊👊💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️❤️
tick, tock ..
Sooooo much better than his newer stuff, seems like a different producer these days.
The grimiest of the grimy
on point.
Jungle or DnB ?
jungle is dnb.. not very edm though, jungle pioneered it all imo
Boer een
I've always thought that jungle is more like this "chaotic" irregular rhythm whereas DnB uses regular beat (snare drum), like "DJ Fear - LSD" or "State of Mind - Sun King"
+Helmut and i would agree, do you know what an amen break is?
nah , would say dnb is normally faster and has a usually more dark or industrial feel to it. Really subjective to be honest but there was a change in the structure of most Dnb/jungle from the early 90's to late 90's which sum peeps characterize as the change from jungle to dnb.
+Angus Rose correct