DNB Selecta Vol. 1: 10 Selectors To Know

Drum & bass has never really gone away, but 2026 has given it fresh volume. In its mid-year review, Beatportal noted that jungle and drum & bass are "back in heavy rotation", part of a wider pull towards harder, faster club sounds. The same energy runs through DNB SELECTA VOL. 1, the new ANGVIS compilation released on 25 September 2026: ten tracks from eleven producers, recorded in studios from Mykonos to Tianjin.

The record is not built around one city or one crew. It is a snapshot of how the genre travels now: a jump up producer in Denver, a neurofunk DJ in Graz, a former gymnast in St. Petersburg and a producer who spent two decades making music only for himself. Here are the ten selectors behind it, in their own terms.

A Scene That Keeps Splitting And Growing

Part of what makes drum & bass so durable is how many directions it runs in at once. The IMS Business Report 2026, as summarised by Crossfader, describes a market moving towards fragmented, niche genres rather than one dominant sound, with Global South markets growing at twice the rate of Western ones. Drum & bass fits that picture: its sub-styles, from jump up to liquid, have their own DJs, their own nights and their own audiences, and new producers keep arriving from places the genre's first generation never played.

Tempo matters too. The push towards faster club music, which ANGVIS looked at in Why Club Tracks Are Getting Faster, has made 170 BPM and above feel less like a niche and more like a destination. DNB SELECTA VOL. 1 leans into that range while keeping the variety that makes a compilation worth playing front to back.

The Jump Up Contingent

makehersay - "Favorite Drug"

From Denver, Colorado, makehersay is a jump up producer and DJ who has earned radio and DJ support from Skepsis and Koji Aiken. "Favorite Drug" brings exactly what that pedigree suggests: bouncy, hook-first drum & bass built for the moment a room loses its composure.

Shuckle - "Bass Club"

Belgian producer Shuckle has built his name through a steady run of releases and DJ sets, with a sound defined by heavyweight basslines, infectious vocals and explosive drops. "Bass Club" does what the title promises and is one of the most direct records on the compilation.

CONCISE - "Vibrate (Make It)"

Based in Graz, Austria, CONCISE plays drum & bass at 180 BPM, moving between neurofunk, jump up and dancefloor styles, and also runs dedicated liquid sets. That range is audible on "Vibrate (Make It)", a track that sits comfortably in a peak-time set without losing its groove.

Bass Music Crossovers

REPLASED - "Comback"

REPLASED, from Russia, fell in love with electronic music at 12 and taught himself production, naming Skrillex as his biggest influence. He spent years as a ghost producer, with client tracks released on labels including Monstercat, Circus and Subsidia, before stepping out under his own name with heavy dubstep and bass music on Spicy Bois and WHYZ Music. "Comback" carries that bass music weight into drum & bass tempo.

Attract - "Set Me Free"

Polish producer and DJ Attract works across drum & bass, future house and bass house. He started making music at 11 and, under his earlier alias Asut, passed 150,000 Spotify streams, picked up support from Showtek and TeamMBL, won two DJ contests and played Space Nysa Festival and Osiecka Noc Klubowa. "Set Me Free" shows the melodic side of his production.

DJ Bear - "I Know"

DJ Bear has played clubs across China since the age of 15. A member of the TKBS crew from Tianjin, he has support from Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, EDX and Lucas & Steve, and releases on Smash The House and Magic Records. "I Know" brings a big-room sense of scale to the tracklist and is a reminder of how far the genre's reach now extends.

Producers' Producers

Valcode - "Enough"

Valcode began in 2023 and comes from Mykonos, an island better known for its party scene than for drum & bass. A deep connection to bass music led him into production, and his work focuses on sound design, audio manipulation and sample creation. "Enough" blends heavy energy with melodic ideas, the balance his project is built on.

Tali Rush - "Ashes"

Born in Uzbekistan, Tali Rush is a producer and arranger who has been making music since 2014, with releases on labels including Housesession, Tribal Trap and Simplify. "Ashes" is the work of someone who knows arrangement inside out: patient, detailed and built to hold attention across a full play.

vonHarrisn - "Good Time"

vonHarrisn has been producing for more than 20 years, for most of that time only for himself. That changed when a DJ friend played one of his tracks live and the crowd's response gave him the confidence to share his music. Since then he has released the singles "Drowning In The Waves", "All The Time" and "Feel The Rain", and "Good Time" is an easy, warm entry point into his sound.

Zuek and Endy Eos - "R.M.C"

The compilation's only collaboration pairs two Russian producers. Zuek is the project of Petr Nesterov, a producer and sound designer with around 20 years of studio experience, for whom drum & bass has always been the main focus. "R.M.C" is his first official release. His partner on it, Endy Eos from St. Petersburg, is a former artistic gymnast who reached the rank of Master of Sports and turned to music after retiring from sport in 2015. He started with uplifting trance and big room house, released bass house on the Brazilian label G-Mafia Records in 2023, and now focuses fully on drum & bass.

What A Compilation Still Does

In a scene this fragmented, a compilation works as a filter. It puts a jump up producer from Denver next to a sound designer from Mykonos and trusts the listener, or the DJ, to hear the thread between them. For many of the artists here it is also a first step: a first official release, a first record under a new name, or a first time sharing music made in private for years.

For DJs, the value is practical. Ten tracks across jump up, neurofunk-leaning dancefloor and melodic bass give enough range to build a set section from one record. For producers, the stories behind these tracks make the same point again and again: the route in is rarely straight, and plenty of the people now releasing drum & bass spent years getting ready first.

DNB SELECTA VOL. 1 is out now on all major platforms via the release link, on Bandcamp and on the ANGVIS SoundCloud.