Renowned UK electronic label and promoter UKF have shared their traditional Best of The Year festive mixes. Normally dropped at the end of December just in time for the New Year’s celebrations, this time both collections premiered last night over the official UKF YouTube channels as an early Christmas present to all their followers. The Best of Drum & Bass 2020 Mix runs for one hour and with 33 tracks in total, while the Best of Dubstep 2020 is slightly shorter with 22 songs spanning just over 40 minutes.
Additionally, you can hop over to their official website and check the label’s annual review of the 20 best albums, tracks, labels, remixes and artists of the year. Both mixes are available to re-play on the YouTube links provided above, with full details on tracklists and download links in the description, and can also be found as exclusive playlists on UKF’s Spotify page. No matter which Tier you find yourself into on this festive day, tune in to enjoy the best electronic bangers of 2020 “featuring some (not all!) of [the] favourite uploads from the past 12 months“.
The drum & bass mix starts with a distinctive Australian flavour, jumping straight into ShockOne’s explosive ‘Follow Me‘ followed by one of the absolute highlights of the year in Pendulum’s huge comeback ‘Driver‘. Aside taking the world by storm upon its release in September, and steadily approaching 3 million streams in Spotify, the song recently won the Best Track Award at the 12th Drum and Bass Arena Awards.
The UKF mix includes three tracks by Dimension: ‘Don’t Sleep‘ , ‘Hatred‘ and ‘Love To Give‘ all expected to appear on the British DJ’s highly anticipated upcoming debut record Organ. Two singles come straight from Metrik’s hugely successful third album Ex Machina, released in June 2020 via Hospital Records. At the end London-based Fox Stevenson delivers his energetic ‘Like That‘ as the perfect conclusion of the epic mix.
The annual dubstep compilation starts with the collaboration between the American producers GRiZ and Blunts & Blondes setting the modd in style with their hit ‘Juicy‘. Fox Stevensons also makes a solid appearance here with ‘Just Don’t Mind‘, alongside the traditional entries by the likes of Doctor P, PhaseOne, Zeds Dead and Feed Me. The Best of Dubstep 2020 finishes with the melodic and uplifting ‘Elevate‘ by the English DJs Tisoki and Upgrade featuring vocals by Monstercat’s latest recruit Courtney Drummey.
Created in 2009 by Luke Hood, UKF started as a platform for friends to share and discover new music. The idea quickly became very popular with its subscribers and followers continuing to increase to this day, and expanding over several YouTube channels, live events and widely celebrated annual compilations. Operating at the very heart of the British drum & bass and dubstep scene and championing an impressive list of influential artists, the label celebrated its 10th anniversary last year and arguably achieved its mission to become “the home of bass music“.
Coming just in time for Christmas day, the Best of Drum & Bass and Dubstep 2020 mixes will surely keep the endless lockdown home party going all the way to New Year’s Eve, and is one thing we can all enjoy together regardless of which Tier we welcome 2021 in. In case you are still not fed up with the Christmas songs, here is an alternative version of some of the classics, suggested by UKF to add and extra electronic spark to the festive day.
Need some new Christmas bangers to get you into the festive spirit? Ho ho ho gosh, we’ve got you covered! pic.twitter.com/sXIUTRS6C2 — UKF (@UKF) December 24, 2020
