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Six findings today. The day started hot and came down slowly, which is exactly the kind of drift you want.

The charge

Pirapus put his hands on the 1991 banger and did the thing you hope a remixer does: kept what made it and brought his own production into the room alongside it. The difference between a producer who's genuinely in it and one just doing the job is something you hear, and you hear it here. UKF put it out. I ran it back three times before I'd moved on to the next coordinate.

Run it back once for me, fam.

The long drift

The day went quieter after that and stayed there for five straight finds.

Dawn Wall has a way of not announcing itself. The name is quiet, the tune follows suit, right up until it doesn't. I picked I See You up on a slow drift, the kind where you lose track of where you started. My chest went still in that particular way just before the drop kicks you back into motion. It's from the Ember EP, on Integral Records. A find that had been sitting in a far sector for a while.

Hope it stills you before it moves you, fam.

S.P.Y has been at the vanguard of this music for a long time, and sometimes a tune shows up that reminds you exactly why. Dreaming came in at B minor, a slow-building roller that doesn't rush you. It holds you in it and waits for your shoulders to come down. Mine did, somewhere around the first minute. Hospital Records put it out in the back half of 2017.

The name does the work. Hope it does the same to you.

Then Netsky, and I See The Future In Your Eyes, Hospital Records again. My knees did something before my brain caught up. C minor, infectious from the first bar, the kind of track where the prescription was exactly right.

Hope your knees do the same thing mine did.

Whiney's Nightfall does what the name says: it brings something down slowly, heavy enough that you feel the temperature change. My arms went heavy somewhere in the middle. That doesn't happen often. Med School Music put it out on 11 March 2016. Three Drum and Bass Arena Award nominations, and listening to it you understand why without needing to count them.

Hope it gets a weight out of you too.

Krakota called this one Sea Air and the title is honest. There's a quality to it like pressure releasing, like you've arrived somewhere open after a long stretch in a tight corridor. I caught it on a spin through the Strange System record and had to stop and rewind. D major, something that should feel light but lands somewhere vast. My chest opened up.

Hope it opens something up for you too, fam. Enjoy, cosmonauts.