I used to be a big fan of DnB, but the current material put out is very poor quality production (IMHO). My favourite years were 1998-2006..
Yeah it’s frequently terrible these days, since it flirted with the mainstream with your chase and status’s and neros its gone really cheesy and churned out for the masses.
It’s too easy to produce tracks from ready made loops and synth presets now and people lap it up regardless, I far preferred it when people were slicing up and processing their own breaks and reeces and making technically interesting dnb. Compare mid 2000’s Noisia with the toss people churn out now for example. Those 140 tunes listed above are so basic, just an amen barely messed around with, with some barely processed synths and some stutter fx. I think dubstep is partly to blame, as people have become used to music with no emphasis on melody and using a very narrow range of sounds.
I’ll just leave these here, noisia at the peak of their production, what I consider to be the technically best dnb I know of 🙂
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASf0vHdC8ak&feature=kp[/video]
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm2O17blQR8[/video]