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<blockquote data-quote="GravitationalWave" data-source="post: 1691748" data-attributes="member: 122230">Hi,I'm new to this forum but not new to DnB. I've been listening and following the genre since 1997 or so.I was a dj for a few years and my preference was more towards liquid or really experimental stuff. Back in my days it was mostly vinyl releases and mp3 was starting to kick in which made room for a lot of new interesting and varied releases.Now correct me if I'm wrong but lately I've tried buying music from Junodownload, Beatport etc and found myself bored with the selection of releases they hold. Seems to me that most releases are from the same labels, same people, same style and nothing really that interesting with a few exceptions.For me Drum and bass was always the most forward thinking innovative genre of all electronic dance music and somehow I feel like its been narrowed down to a few big labels and thats all you get. If you look for liquid drum and bass&nbsp; it seems its still the same guys doing it, record shops can't even be bothered to sub genre styles so you can sort of find your way around and be surprised by artists or labels you might not have thought of.Maybe I'm not looking in the right places for that variety I'm after and if someone can enlighten me and show me the way to variety, I highly appreciate it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GravitationalWave, post: 1691748, member: 122230"] Hi, I'm new to this forum but not new to DnB. I've been listening and following the genre since 1997 or so. I was a dj for a few years and my preference was more towards liquid or really experimental stuff. Back in my days it was mostly vinyl releases and mp3 was starting to kick in which made room for a lot of new interesting and varied releases. Now correct me if I'm wrong but lately I've tried buying music from Junodownload, Beatport etc and found myself bored with the selection of releases they hold. Seems to me that most releases are from the same labels, same people, same style and nothing really that interesting with a few exceptions. For me Drum and bass was always the most forward thinking innovative genre of all electronic dance music and somehow I feel like its been narrowed down to a few big labels and thats all you get. If you look for liquid drum and bass it seems its still the same guys doing it, record shops can't even be bothered to sub genre styles so you can sort of find your way around and be surprised by artists or labels you might not have thought of. Maybe I'm not looking in the right places for that variety I'm after and if someone can enlighten me and show me the way to variety, I highly appreciate it. [/QUOTE]

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