The Drumming Space

The Drumming Space concept began when Profane shared Breakthrough with me. The track unfolds like a journey - opening with a few notes of piano and combining different electronic textures - moving between calm and sparse to dense moments. Cinematic and dynamic yet rooted in drum and bass.

Dacamera's Improvisation en Bleu and Dr...um's Deathchimes would be the next tracks in this epic style to get signed. Both also unfolding over several minutes.

Then I seeked out tracks which would capture the label's drumfunk roots. This brought in the atmospheric tracks like Opius - Ghost Breaks and Duburban and Peeb - Drumscapes. And funkier, soulful drumfunk like Opius's Street Science and Fada's The Cold Constant.

Next was coming up with a cohesive flow for the album and bring in some additional styles of drum and bass. There came in the sparse, dubby Peeb and Pixl - Peace4U - unique in its natural sounding drum breaks. Parallel's Cold Night Wet Pavement which is melodic with raw hardware synths and also demonstrating a different side of processed breakbeats.

Looking at laying the project out on vinyl, there was a few minutes of space remaining and it made sense to weave a couple intermission into the flow - Dot Notation with a percussion piece using a shifting bpm and Sloth of the Jungle presenting an octet of drum breaks filling out the runout.

The tradition of various artist albums on Pinecone Moonshine started in 2008 with The Painting Space. The concept was (as it still is today) to present drum and bass tracks of different styles and artists while staying in the label's sound.