Over the last 10 years, Mindscape has been electrifying the drum & bass scene over a number of stellar imprints. Representing the Budapest scene, Mindscape represented more of a tech/neuro side of drum & bass, with imprints like DSCI4 and Citrus flocking to their material earlier, before catching the ears of Klute's Commercial Suicide label, who released the 2012 album Martian Chronicles. 2012 saw Mindscape (an act that went from a trio to a solo outfit) collaborating with Chris.SU and BKT for Bad Taste and V Recordings, respectively, and just this month released a new single on Mainframe Recordings. With such a huge drum & bass pedigree, it makes sense that he takes us on a beautiful trek through the neuro side of the dnb scene. Check out his latest single down below, then dig into this week's Five Tracks.
Goldie - "Inner City Life"
In 1996 when MTV actually used to play music, I heard something new there what I have never heard before. Those times I was only listening to hip-hop, so I had no idea what kind of music it was but I immediately fell in love with those rolling beats, the beautiful vocal, and the whole dark urban atmosphere. This tune changed my life and started my whole drum & bass career.
Bad Company - "The Nine"
I will never forget that moment in '98 when I was standing in the middle of the dancefloor listening Ed Rush playing "The Nine" for the first time in Budapest. It sounded very fresh, fat and futuristic on that huge sound system.
Optical - "Slip Thru"
The first Virus album was a real game changer, it laid the foundation for a new sub genre, which is - 15 years later - still healthy and evolving. I love every track on this LP, but "Slip Thru" is probably my favorite.