DCDNB

Where have we been?

Why, right here, of course. However, the content has been lacking lately, and there are a few things we should be doing to rectify that. So here is an update to the mission of DCDNB, although it is subject to change.

Get involved with the DCDNB blog, a continuing project centered around the drum’n’bass music genre and the DC Metro area (basically within a 25-mile radius of Washington, DC). Look for the following regular posts:

• Mondays: From here on out, Mondays are Mixtape Mondays. Makes sense, right? If you are a DC area DJ, send us your mixes. We are no longer aggregating information from the local forums and webcasts, we want the DJs to forward on their material. So if you want to see your mix from EXBC or Dirtbox, or any other webcasts we might be aware of, send us a link, a title or show name & date, a track listing and contact info (email, a website address, a Twitter account), and make sure your mix is mostly drum’n’bass and mixed well. If you’re clanging the mixes, some of the regulars who check our blog & Twitter will ask me “what’s up with new jack DJ train wrecking up & down their mix?”
  
  
• Tuesdays - Thursdays: We are going to try some new content ideas out, maybe something interactive with those who read the blog. We might be asking for photo replies of record collections, DJ set ups, studios, hand drawn DCDNB logos, air horn impressions, 10-minute mixes with nothing but double drops, etc.
  
  
• Fridays: This will be a combination of:
  
  • Five For Friday - a short form interview with the dynamic range of people that make up the local drum’n’bass scene.
    
    
  • Flashback Friday - either we, or someone we contact, will post an item or two that reflects the history of the DC drum’n’bass scene. This could be old fliers, old mixtapes or just a YouTube clip of any old tunes we feel like.
    
    
  • Feature Friday - Some other feature we might come up with.

If you want to get involved, for now the best method of contact is to email Harry Ransom at r4ns0m (at) gmail (dot) com and let him know you want to help in some way, or post a comment on one of our posts.

Also promoters, if you want DCDNB promoting your event in some capacity and you will help us out by including our logo in your promotional materials, let us know; we also have a vector version of our classic logo, which designers can incorporate in to their designs easily. As with the mixes, we are no longer scouring forums for info, we want to establish a connection with those active in producing & promoting events in Washington, DC. If you have drum’n’bass on your line-up and that party is happening in DC (or very close to the city, not down in Richmond, VA or up in Baltimore, MD), let us know.

Look for other updates as well. We will be trying out a lot of different ideas for content. And with all of that said, I am going to post about an event tomorrow in DC, and maybe a couple old drum’n’bass tunes that I was listening to earlier today.

DCDNB carries on: October 1, 2010 - The Golden Era of DnB vs The New Sound of DC 2: feat KLUTE

We are supporting an incredible event in DC, taking place October 1st in a classic warehouse space and put on by some of our favorite promoters to work with, Eighty Eight DC.

Eighty Eight DC presents:

The Golden Era of Drum & Bass meets The Future Sound of DC

Friday October 1, 2010
Warehouse:Loft
411 New York Ave. NE
Washington, DC
18+ to get in / 21+ to drink

Room One: Drum’n’Bass
Klute (Commercial Suicide - UK)
Slant & Bjoo (2 Tuff)
Inflictz

Room Two: Future Bass
Harry Ransom (EXBC / Break The Science / DCDNB)
IllEffect (EXBC / DeepFoc.us)
SGNL (Lowercase Music / DeepFoc.us)
Deyv (88)

Mixtape Thursday #27

Twenty seven weeks of DC-centric mixes! Chugging along! This week check out:

• DTL Contraversy: EXBC Podcast #247 [ DOWNLOAD | LINK ]
  
  
• Deinfamous: EXBC Podcast #248 [ DOWNLOAD | LINK ]
  
  
• Plus Good - “There’s A Lighter Hope” (June 2010) [ LINK ]
  
  
• CJ Weaver - ‘June 2010 Minimix’ [ DOWNLOAD #1 | DOWNLOAD #2 | LINK ]

Go party this week: 08-JUN-2010 to 14-JUN-2010

Here’s where you’ll find some drum’n’bass in the DC area over the next seven days:

• 09-JUN-2010 [WED in VA]: Transit | promo thread
  w/ DnB DJs: Synrgy / Fringe (Phaydn & Crio) / Definitive Junglists / D.T.L. Contraversy / Pickillz
  Event had to be canceled due to issues at the venue.

There does not seem to be any drum’n’bass booked in the area this week :|

Two days after Tuesday event outlook.

Work has been busy. My time out of work has been busy. But here is what is coming up (even if it is to shamelessly plug my own gig):

• 03-JUN-2010 [THU in MD]: Throwdown Thursdays | promo thread
  w/ DnB DJs: TobyDown / MarshaLaw / iLLapse / Christian Dope
  plus a whole other room of DJs
  
  
• 04-JUN-2010 [FRI in DC]: DC’s Unofficial Starscape Pre-party | promo thread
  w/ DnB DJs: RenderOne / Jahny Aleus
  plus a few more DJs
  
  
• 05-JUN-2010 [SAT in MD]: 12th Annual Starscape Festival | set-times
  w/ DnB DJs: Dieselboy (Human Imprint - NY) / Subfocus (Ram - UK) / Dirtyphonics (Audio Porn - FR) / Sigma (UK) / Trace (DSCI4 - UK) / AK1200 (Planet Of The Drums - FL) / Mayhem (Shadow Law - ATL) / Swarm (PHI) / Hyx &  Houston / Cannon Boys / Headhunterz / Seraph / Harry Ransom (DCDNB)
  plus four more stages of DJs and bands and craziness

If you are coming out to Starscape early, I (Harry Ransom) will be the opening DJ on the dnb stage, going on at 2PM.

Mixtape Thursday #24

Slackin’, slackin’, slackin’… here is the latest on the mixtape campaign by DC’s finest:

• Harry Ransom: EXBC Podcast #235 - Gunsound Volume One [ DOWNLOAD | LINK ]
  
  
• DJ Stepan: EXBC Podcast #236 [ DOWNLOAD | LINK ]

Tuesday drum’n’bass event outlook for 05/11 to 05/17

A little late…

• 14-MAY-2010 [FRI in DC]: Konkrete Jungle DC | promo thread
  w/ DnB DJs: HYX & H0U5T0N / Serial / Headhunterz Inc. / James Z aka Therapist
  Note: This is the final Konkrete Jungle DC event, but the guys plan to continue throwing a monthly drum’n’bass event at Jimmy Valentine’s, just branding it under a different name.

Mixtape Thursday #22

A set of Dirtbox Radio archives this week:

• Dirtbox Radio Archives: DBR #415 (April 24, 2010)
  • Joey Migraine [ DOWNLOAD ]
  • ODJ [ DOWNLOAD | LINK ]
  • CJ Weaver [ DOWNLOAD ]
  • HeBe GB [ DOWNLOAD ]

Tuesday Event Outlook - 05/04 to 05/10

Parties this week:

• 05-MAY-2010 [WED in VA]: Transit | promo thread
  w/ DnB DJs: DJ Frog / Darkenetiks / DJ Drip vs. Dan Amitai / Deinfamous & IllEffect
  
  
• 08-MAY-2010 [SAT in MD]: Spring Massive: Under The Big Top | promo thread
  w/ DnB DJs: Simon Bassline Smith (UK) / Dara & DB (History of Drum’n’Bass Set) / Teebee (NOR) / Headhunterz / Don Vega / MC High IQ / MC Checkwun
  plus a whole lot of other DJs

Will add more tomorrow, if I missed anything.

Flashback Friday #04: A night at Buzz in DC.

For crazy weird flashback mode, check out: DCDNB vs. Geocities. Make sure to pump the MIDI jams LOUD!

J Majik & MC MC - Live at Buzz (January 2001)
link: http://dnbshare.com/download/LiveatBuzz_January2001_.mp3.html

I was cleaning up around the house this past weekend and found this mix in a pile of burned mixes. This was never released, just a few people had this I guess.

I also tried to hunt down the full flier, had to crop this low-res version from a .PDF of Akira Takahashi’s work, off of his portfolio site (aintshite.com). Akira was one third of Airline Industries, and played a major role in influencing several graphic designers to come out of the DC area.

Quick update on the DCDNB blog.

The Five For Friday feature has not been discontinued, I just have not had time to get questions together, although we have plans to do a Q&A with Telemetrik, as well as Inner Loop (a live band that plays a bit of drum’n’bass in their show sets). There were also two Five For Friday questionnaires that never got completed, so those two features probably will never be featured.

However, Flashback Fridays will continue, and have I got a lot of great old recordings for that. I am also kicking around the idea of a collaborative photo project, just need to figure out when to post the call for photos, and what the deadline will be. Maybe I will label that feature ‘Wednesday: We Are DCDNB’?

So that said, thanks for the support and continuing to check out the blog. Also, I may need to pester Jungle Jessi about taking on the DCDNB internship position we had joked about…

Tuesday drum’n’bass event outlook for 04/27 - 05/03

This week is looking a bit low-key, before a few big spring events come through.

• 28-APR-2010 [WED in DC]: Transit | promo thread
  w/ DnB DJs: 2 Old Junglists (Solace72 vs. Outliar) / Insulin
  Plus a few dubstep DJs

Tuesday drum’n’bass event outlook for 04/20 to 04/26

A couple parties in DC to check out this week:

• 23-APR-2010 [FRI in DC] - United Vibe | promo thread
  w/ DnB DJs: Rip Reed / Render One
  plus other DJs in three rooms
  
  
• 23-APR-2010 [FRI in DC] - Root Of All Evol | promo thread
  w/ DnB DJs: Evol Intent / Deinfamous / Serial / K.R.X.M. / Gabe Da Aphrican / MC High IQ
  plus a couple dubstep DJs and a second room with house & breaks DJs

Mixtape Thursday #19 - another late on Friday edition

About two weeks of mixes I need to post here:

• Dirtbox Radio Archives: DBR Podcast #411 (March 28, 2010)
  • Insulin [ DOWNLOAD ]
  
  
• Stepan: EXBC Podcast #223 (March 29, 2010) [ DOWNLOAD | LINK ]
  
  
• Dirtbox Radio Archives: DBR Podcast #412 (April 4, 2010)
  • Encryption [ DOWNLOAD ]
  • Resonance [ DOWNLOAD ]
  • DaveJ [ DOWNLOAD ]
  
  
• DJ Question: EXBC Podcast #224 - “Sub Banger” Mix (April 5, 2010) [ DOWNLOAD | LINK ]
  
  
• Deinfamous: EXBC Podcast #225 (April 7, 2010) [ DOWNLOAD | LINK ]
  
  
• Dirtbox Radio Archives: DBR Podcast #413 (April 11, 2010)
  • Parsec [ DOWNLOAD ]
  • Inflictz [ DOWNLOAD ]
  
  
• Harry Ransom: DOA x UAF DJ Mix Competition (April 13, 2010) [ DOWNLOAD | LINK ]