DRUM&BASSARENA 2015

Scene bastions Drum&BassArena add another essential addition to their best-selling annual album series with the ultimate drum & bass document for 2015. 60 tracks, 13 exclusives, three massive CDs: Drum&BassArena return with their longstanding annual spring collection. Once again, it leaves no sonic stone unturned. Uniting the most important players in the game with consistency and clarity Drum&BassArena 2015 explores, embraces, represents and celebrates the entire spectrum of the scene, shedding light on all its many corners „ Heavyweight chart-topping influencers? Check: Sigma, DJ Fresh, Wilkinson, Chase & Status and Matrix & Futurebound„ Unequivocal scene legends? Check: Calibre, LTJ Bukem, Calyx & TeeBee, Spor, TC, Total Science, Drumsound & Bassline Smith, Digital, Break, Spectrasoul„ Super-sharp underground heroes? Check: Black Sun Empire, SCAR, Serum, Serial Killaz, Current Value, Eastcolors, L 33„ We could be here all day listing and categorising every contributor on this epic compendium, but that would be missing the point: each CD fuses the sounds with only one design„ To showcase how exciting, how creative and how breath-taking drum & bass is right now in the year 2015. In the wake of Sigma scoring two massive UK number one hits, more D&B artists achieving daytime A-list playlist airwave action and more D&B artists representing on festival main stages around the globe, Drum&BassArena 2015 testifies the genre™s strength, size and influence in all directions. Not just in terms of context and success, but its stylistic elasticity too„ At points super-soulful, understated and slick. At others electrifying enough to power a sleepless city, Drum&BassArena 2015 is a widescreen technicolour print that portrays the true breadth of drum & bass in a genuinely unique way. Literally„ 13 of the tracks are 100 per cent exclusive to this album and have never been heard before. Featuring incredible specials from the likes of Total Science, Bladerunner, A.M.C & Six Blade, KG, L 33, Mark System and many more, the exclusives alone showcase the brand™s understanding and relationship with every corner of the scene. 19 years deep into the game, Drum&BassArena continues to celebrate the scene with open-armed, and open-eared authority. No other album comes close to representing the entire genre.