Intelligent Drum & Bass - Selected Works (1994-2000) 

Hi all. Sincere apologies about the last upload. Due to copyright, RU-vid blocked a PFM remix and a Photek track, but only blocked it a few days after I uploaded! I wasn't even able to trim the tracks out so I've since removed it and re-uploaded with two different tracks in their place (hopefully this one won't get blocked). As always I love reading your comments, it's wicked to know so many people share the same passion for this genre as I do. Cheers all, Tom.

I wish I knew people in real life I could share this music with. I personally love it so much that I can't comprehend how so few are into this genre. It feels like I'm transported away and into a sea of bliss.

Drum and Bass is like one of the only genres that make me productive. Using this to write my master's thesis. Scary stuff

I'm 42. It's the music of my youth. So nostalgic, my eyes are wet) Much respect from Kiev(Ukraine).

I'm 21 and I love the old school sound. This music has such a rich history that is severely understated in modern drum and bass

Mr Fredericks is responsible for every essay I've completed in uni - the soundtrack to my study.

I may not be a middle-aged, introspective, nostalgic man, but this music makes me ascend.

i said it before and i'll say it again: this is what the future was suposed to sound like.

I was a DnB DJ from 92 to 06. I was scrolling through videos to watch and I immediately recognized all the album covers you have up. Nice selection of a wide variety tracks from back then. Cheers

This is the sound of my youth. My dad brought home some Good Looking Records stuff around ‘96 when l was 11, and l instantly recognized this sound on a soul level and it layed out the foundation of my musical life. Back in the days I tried to get my friends to listen to it, but they never really appreciated it the way l did, so l had it mostly for my self, always wondering how come most people would prefer some shitty mainstream crap music over something like this. Used to spend most of my weekends (and hard earned money) in a record store in Copenhagen called LOUD Music, always searching for the latest in atmospheric d&b music and other related genres. Still have most of these records today, including most of the Good Looking back catalogue and still coming back to it every now and then, since IMO nothing has ever since surpassed the creativity and feeling that is embedded within this golden era music. I can sincerely say that this particular music has been like a life long partner to me, and has been a positive force throughout my life to this day. Countless of my life memories are linked to this music. Well, just wanted to share my own story around this evergreen music, l’m sure others here can relate. Thanks for the upload!

This genre of music helps my neurodivergent mind focus, im actually able to focus on thoughts and work on actions.

Hi from South Africa. I got into drum and bass in the mid-90s as a teen (I'm 44 now). There was a weekly drum and bass show on a radio station called Bush Radio. I used to tape the shows and listen to it on my Walkman. Thanks for bringing back those memories. I recognise every single track here and it takes me back.

This is my childhood. I had a cool cousin 7 years older and he had an amazing sound system, and 56k modem internet, which barely anyone had back then. He downloaded thousands of hours of amazing DNB which we were happy to blast in our custom skinned Winamp. All those amazing LTJ Bukem and MC Conrad mixes. GTA 3 had that great Omni Trio radio channel. Remember the DNB tracks in Unreal Tournament? Facing Worlds, such good times, better times. The world was more free, less gloom and doom. People seemed to just love each other. That was before you had to hate men if you were a woman and hate wh:tes if you were black and the other way around and so on. The 4-5 of us spent most of the summers together, playing football, going to the beach, playing games on LAN, talking until early morning while listening to DNB, watching Dragon Ball, lmao. Great childhood. I probably grew up in the best time in human history. I'm thankful for that. We were poor, but that doesn't matter. The real poverty is what kids have nowadays: brand sneakers and iPhones, but no friendship, parents, love or community.

im 15 and even though im not some wise old guy reminiscing on his youth the old school feeling is just so nostalgic and this music just makes me feel like i belong

If Mother Nature was a genre this would be it. Jungle/dnb is beautiful

DNB is an underrated art

I imagine driving a 2002 audi TT Quattro at night through New York listening to this. Watching the city lights and sky line light up the road infront of me. No destination, just somewhere to eat. Something downtown. Slight drizzle. Perfection

Any collection of Intelligent DnB simply isn't complete without Hypersleep. Great compilation

This album reminds me of playing an older gran turismo game just cruising on an endurance track for a while- laps ahead of everybody else. Admiring every curve of the track, the scenery... weird how music does all that to our brains.

90's DNB can not be touched, it sets my soul on fire, that decade is sorely missed by so many that experienced it, I'm almost 45 years old and I feel 20 again whilst listening to this, knocking on now sadly.

I love the passion of dnb producers about sound design and synth work. Amen breaks and carefully designed ambiences coming from the 90's, how not to love this.

It's amazing how a lot of these are literally the basis for modern breakcore, and themselves sound very modern

16:18 - G-Force - Proximity (1994) What a vibe.

Damn those magical mid 90’s... we did it guyz... we frickin did it. All powered by D&B. No regrets. 👊😎 much love x

Literally brought a tear to my eye, and made me feel 18 and as old as a rock at the same time. The difference between intelligent D&B and the rest is in subtle, and you either get it or you'll never get it. For me it's the difference between a completely immersive sonic experience and elevator muzak. Superb curation buddy.

I'm 58 years old and have been playing drum and bass the moment I heard it. I'm still djaying drum and bass I love. This is a fine start to folks who are new to 90's chilled liquid dnb. And a beautiful reminder to those of us who were there as and when it happened. Roll the beats.

Only got introduced to drums and bass through triphop. I kept hearing this beat in the works of portishead, mono (Formica blues. Everyone should have this album), massive attack, tortoise and more. When I found whole albums of this stuff, I was HOOKED. it never gets old

this mix + active noise cancelling = pure bliss

For me 93 - 97 were the golden years of D&B/Jungle. After 97 it just got too fast & hard. The soul of it was ripped away. This era is unprecedented, unparalleled and with a never ending shelf life for those that recognise & appreciate its unique brilliance. 🙌🏻

Listening to this takes me back to searching the record crates at this tiny underground electronic raver music store in the East Village in the mid- to late-90s, on 14th ave. between 2nd & 3rd st. And Save The Robots after-hours in the basement. And the DnB/breakbeat club in the all-metal basement cooler in the Meat Packing District. And my favorite JNCO jeans with the neon glow-in-the-dark yellow stripes down the sides....... Good times.

This music doesn't demand to be listened to,like most other music.Thats probably why we love it!

not sure why, but this soothes my brain in just the right way to help me sleep

This is so intelligent that it pushed me to create my first work of art. In its entirety.

I feel very lucky that I lived thru the 90ies Electronic music scene...and in Berlin, Germany. Love Parade, Mayday Raves, Tresor etc. it was incredible...but thanks to a Radio show that usually played Techno/Trance I got infected by DnB...and I slowly progressed away from the 4th to the floor TR909 type Drum stuff towards UK DnB. When Goldie released his Timeless LP and the first Platinum breakz came out I was literally converted with no turning back. At the time Berlin didn't have much DnB clubs...I only knew the Jungle mania which then became the Icon Club...later the WmF had it's incredible Hard:Edged DnB nights....I got to see Kemistry and Storm, Dillinja and Lemon D, Peshay, Dom&Roland, Source Direct and many others of the greats... My first compilation thru (besides the Platinum breakz) was called "Atmospheric Drum&Bass Vol 1" by Millennium Records...and it was literally my musical Bible... intelligent drum&bass is my absolute favorite style...the producers put much emotion, synth work, tricky break editing, sub basses and sometimes even melodic elements into the sound...it literally beams me back to a time that now feels like a different life... beautiful summers in Spain Mallorca, dancing at outside DnB events at the WmF, women and just exploring the city with this style of music in my discman. I'm forever thankful that I always preferred electronic music and synth sounds....I highly recommend the Atmospheric Drum & Bass compilations 1 thru 4...A Journey into Drum & Bass...and of course the works of Moving Shadow Rec, Reinforced Rec, Prototype Rec, Good Looking Rec...

DNB will always remind me of the golden years in NYC. When it was still rough around the edges and real. Halcyon records in Brooklyn where I first heard Roni Size in 1999. The nostalgia hurts.

I gotta get this off my chest. I've been a huge fan of intelligent/atmospheric/ambient/all that DnB for a few years now. Never had anyone around during childhood to show me this music, but it still reminds me of childhood like nothing else. Reminds me of looking deep into the blue sky while day dreaming as a child. Anyway, I recently attended my first DnB show, it was LTJ Bukem and damn, it was anticlimactic. Bukem got me into this style of music, but the only stuff he played was new age. Not one bit of atmospheric. Never got that itch, itched. I thought if there was anyone that would be still playing it live at a shows, it would be Bukem. I know Bukem wasn't on this mix, but I figured I'd spill, you guys understand.

I'm a Trance and House fan, but man sometimes this type of Drum n Bass is so fcking good for the ears. Respect to all electronic music!!

Excellent compilation. Nowadays, most of this would likely be classified in the "Liquid" sub-genre of Drum 'n Bass. For those who think, "they don't make 'em like this anymore", I'd say to you the Liquid Drum 'n Bass community is still very much alive.

Intelligent drum and bass is the most underappreciated genre of my generation. Thank you for keeping it alive and pure.👊

I find it insane how DnB from the years I was not even born yet is so vastly different than DnB from today. It is way more chilly and needs more time and mental investment to really get to you! Thank you for sharing these tunes.

All tracks are good but Blu mar Ten - she moves through is something special. Its like a journey trough vastness of space and time, a story to be told. Incredible. edit: oh and right next after it another superb track. im in heaven

I would've been obsessed with this kind of music had I been around in the 90's.

I always thought I disliked D&B until I stumbled across this. Brilliant. Wish I was listening to it years ago.

This really does capture a certain time and headspace. These sounds were very important to me in the formative years. It felt like my secret music. When pop punk was the sound of my area I would retreat to this and IDM.

These were the best times in the world of electronic music

feeling smarter with every drum kick...... whom listening in 2o21? i gotta know! for me, uh ya its an instant like, dawg ;) who up?

It is not only a good genre, but also this selections of tracks is immaculate. An awesome job ❤‍🔥

The golden era of Drum 'n Bass Techno. So much ambience, culture and influence. This is the world waking up to itself and all the wonderful possibilities.

90's was the best time for dnb.

1994-2000 When I was a Young Brat, Clubbing, Fkng, Travel the World.. Now I’m a old Brat. What’s left? My love to Electronic Music…My First Big Love…

My father was a DJ so I grew up listening to all sorts of different edm genres, house and jungle are my favorites. I’m glad I was blessed with the ears to appreciate such wonderful layers of sound

Thankyou so much for sharing this. I got into DnB in 1999, and I was actually buying a lot of LGR, GLR, Fokuz, Triple Vision, Moving Shadow etc at the time, but the music was really blowing up at the time and going in so many different directions that I really didnt delve back into the past (too much). The last several years Ive been absolutely falling in love with the music from this era. I can't understand how people felt like the music had "progressed" from this sound 🤷🏻‍♂️ This is pure heaven and I dont think anything I had heard before or since even comes close. The depth of earth connection in this earliest decade of Drum and Bass is astounding... the vibrational frequencies are incredible and the use of the Amen, Smasher and other such break beats is fucking genius ! Im currently stockpiling absolutely everything I can in digital format (because I just cant afford records anymore 😔) but I will be starting to play This at future bush doofs as I know this will resonate SO much with the people there. its really time to bring people back into mother earths warm and generous embrace ❤️🙏🏻🤯👌 again, thankyou so much. This is all pure heaven !

The soundtrack of my youth in the 90s and 2000s ( in my early 20s).....what a beautiful experience it was walking down the neighborhood of San Francisco.....like a magic carpet ride, free of worries.

Mystic Moods - Music Is The Basis Of All life Concept 3 (1996) - сразу привлекло внимание от фонового прослушивания до перехода на эту страницу за названием композиции. Сейчас пишу и мурашки по коже. С наступающим, кто читает эти строки, а те, кто не читает, всё равно с наступающим :D

I just feel a strong nostalgia for my childhood. My space dreams from it. My first impression of Moon. Dark mystey clouds at evening. First love and young parents. And that music, it's kinda time machine for feelings. Sleepy joyful melancholy, longing for times that gone.

Since the mid 90's I've been such a huge fan of Trance and it's sub genres. Never listened to Intelligent Jungle/DnB, until quite recently. I've now got decades of music to discover 😁 What a fantastic genre.

the fact that this sound is completely new to me at nearly 30 years of age makes me so excited to keep discovering "new" music that inspires this amazing feeling throughout the rest of my life

as much as i like a lot of modern breakbeat/dnb (neuro, jungle, foghorn, not jump up) i absolutely adore the old school stuff

Thanks for this upload! 🤘🏼

This vibe/genre was always in the chill out room which was perfect when escaping the more brutal sounds in the main room

Can't believe a dancing cat meme brought led me to these kinds of tracks. Love this style.

Outstanding! Thank you for all these vybes!

this is such a wonderful gift. as a child born '95, this is my spiritual home. thank you for uploading

The catalyst of my love for electro music was drum and bass. Long live the golden era

I can’t believe that there’s people that loved DnB like me All those year trying to share this passion for this amazing sounds!!! I’ve had awesome commute to work with this track list Thanks so much!!

Loving this mix.. tx for the upload!!

beautiful selection! thank you 🙏

Quality! Thank You for bringing the magic back in the air :)

'The invisible man' track what a masterpiece of D&B!

WOW! You made my day! Thanks!

lots of great music and memories - thanks!

This is a beautiful compilation, thank you!

this is an incredible collection. thank you

This is so excellent, been looking for some of these old tracks for years.

thank you, for both parts, very good job

And just like that, I'm transported to a different planet, where we're all equal and content. Thank you for that.

"lofi is the best genre ever" ever heard of really good underground made in the 90s? also the amen and the think break are my favorite - fellow drum and bass maker here

amazing selection. thanks for the playlist also!

Thank you for this fantastic selection!

🙏 THANK YOU for this! Voyager's 'Hyper Sleep' has been seared into my brain ever since I heard it...it NEVER gets old!

I love this! thanks for sharing

Thank you, so many gems here!

So many timeless tracks in this mix. Brings back memories. Thanks for the upload!

Whoa, I've never heard this DnB sound, thank for doing this

this is very good music. i wish i had people to share this with.

this is so damn relaxing. Thanks so much for posting.

wow, this is amazing!!! thanks for uploading I am having a great time listening

Замечательный жанр из замечательной эпохи. Одно из наилучших направлений, которые были созданы.

thank you a lot for uploading this

remarkable. thanks for the upload.

Can't stop coming back to this genre man just something about it is so timelessly satisfying

What a great listen that was from start to finish..great memories took me back to some really good times..hats off bro 👏 👌

superb collection thank you

Thanks for sharing, wonderful compilation. 🖤

Amazing selection,bravo!

Beautiful tunes bro, thanx! Made my evening ❤️

What an epic blast from the past! Thanks so much for putting these tunes together for us all to enjoy! 😎

Thank you for the most excellent upload.

appreciate the effort, Tom! I was only halfway through when it was taken down :p

after all those years 25+ its the ooonly music genre that i just cant get enough of it, never tired of hearing and dive into those amen spacy atmospheric breaks and beats.... its just so timeless