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D-Bridge and Instra:Mental Present Autonomic - Fabriclive.50

Review by Rory Gibb

The earliest dubstep stripped away UK garage’s champagne‘n’cocaine excesses, leaving little other than space – space now gradually being filled again by a generation of producers drawing on three decades’ worth of dance music history. dBridge, Instra:mental and their ilk are doing much the same for drum‘n’bass but with an extra ten year’s worth of hindsight, dragging in dubstep’s urban discontent, linking the grace and poise of classic Detroit techno with jungle’s voyeuristic eye for sci-fi futurism. »

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autonomic is the combination of bad company's most musically accomplished member dbridge,
and the most exciting production outfit to come out of the drum and bass scene in a decade, instra:mental. appropriately for the 100th title in fabric's compilation series, this trio have concocted possibly its most revolutionary and forward-thinking collection of tracks. since its glory days of the mid 90s, drum and bass has been looking for an artist to break the confines of the sound's stylistic template, and autonomic have delivered. 'fabriclive 50' sums up their last couple of years of work, and represents the work of a collection of producers, many of whom have delivered tailor-made tracks for the cd, from asc to skream to actress to scuba to genotype (who are creating music for dbridge and instra:mental), that redefines what the world knows as drum and bass.
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