Toto, I've a feeling we're not in the UK anymore! Fanu, née Janne Hatula, is a Finnish DJ, producer, and label owner who's made a name for himself exploring the outer limits of drum & bass. The dude's thick textures and stark minimalist grooves bring together breakbeat engineering with footwork rhythms and an eyes-down dubstep skank—and what results is not your mama's D&B.I'm not saying it's a coup d'état, but there seems to be something special brewing in the 160 beats-per-minute range, thanks to experimentalists like Om Unit and Ital Tek in the UK, DJ Earl in Chicago, and Sarah Farina in Berlin, who have shifted the genre's patterns and the palate just enough to cause a commotion. You can read more about Fanu in our recent round-up: The Best Drum & Bass Albums You Missed in 2013 and see who else is stirring the pot at high speeds.Connect with Fanu and his Lightless Recordings label:
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01. Moresounds – Altercations [dub]
02. Ital Tek – The Flood [Civil Music]
03. Om Unit – Swimming Dragon - Ital Tek remix [Civil Music]
04. Ital Tek – Hyper Real - Deft remix [Civil Music]
05. LAS – Liketha - Desto remix [Signal Life]
06. Fanu – Hyde [dub]
07. Calculon & Austin Speed – Get Murked - Fanu remix [Shoot Recordings dub]
08. Tessela – Hackney Parrot - Sam Binga's Crackney Parrot refix [dub]
09. Fanu – Who Dat [dub]
10. Special Request – Black Ops [Houndstooth]
11. Pawn and Calculon – Larchmont - Om Unit remix [Shoot Recordings dub]
12. Bay B Kane – Jungle Warriors [Whitehouse Records]
13. Nonfuture – Too Bad [Ground Mass]
14. Coleco – Focus 10 [Runtime Records]
15. Graphs – Cloud Gate [dub]
16. Coleco – Expanded Awareness [Lightless dub]
17. Stray – Prof Popper [Exit]
18. Fistfunk – Tetsuo [Lightless]
19. Fanu – Drumsö Fuzz [Lightless]
20. Fanu – Paracosm [Lightless dub]
21. Jaquan – Telepath [free download]
22. Somejerk – Some Jungle Tune [free download]
23. Nasty Habits – Shadowboxing - Om Unit remix [31 Records dub]
24. Nonfuture & Migat – Cousin Roland [Ground Mass]