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Cover of Rising by Fushara

Featured release · Drum & Bass

fusharaRising

With his distinct sense of how to balance rattling breaks on the one hand and meditative loopiness on the other, Fushara disabuses from the formula funky drums equals exhaustive top-heaviness.

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04 mixes · 4h 17m from the crewMixes from the vaults

Studio sessions, a back-to-back tape and a radio hour, mixed by the people behind the label and friends. Hit play and let it run, one mix flows into the next.

Studio mix20061:04:25

BuzzPlainaudio Mix 01

An exclusive studio mix: seven then-unreleased plain dubs next to six cuts from the latest drum & bass releases.

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Tracklist · 13 tracks
  1. Plain dub Buzz – Revelation
  2. PP013MDBad Matter – Look
  3. Plain dub Cycom – Distractions
  4. PP005MDIaka – The One You Like
  5. PP009MDMartsman – Genom
  6. Plain dub Buzz – Dragon Love Reloaded
  7. PP013MDBad Matter – Soul On Fire
  8. Plain dub Hek 187 – Rockwool VIP
  9. Plain dub Iaka – Hope
  10. PP008MDCycom – The Dream
  11. PP011MDHek 187 – Enemy’s Inside
  12. Plain dub Buzz – Staggered
  13. Plain dub Cycom – Kingsnake (Martsman Remix)

B2B mixtape20071:10:48

Flowpro b2b MartsmanPlainaudio 2007 Mixtape

Back to back through the hottest plainaudio releases of the year before, a Macc dub from his “rougher days” and some exquisite mixing.

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Tracklist · 15 tracks
  1. PP003MDBuzz – Neo’s Dream
  2. PP011MDHek 187 – Mc Guyver
  3. PP008MDCycom – Blow Up
  4. PP022MDHek 187 – Blue Haze
  5. PP013MDBad Matter – Look
  6. PP023MDAlpha Omega – Shades Of The Past
  7. Plain dub Macc – Multidimensional Mind
  8. Plain dub Barth – Cyclotron
  9. PP009MDMartsman – Antifunny
  10. PP020MDIaka – Rumpelkiste
  11. PP008MDCycom – The Dream
  12. PP014MDMacc – Refuge
  13. PP023MDAlpha Omega – Bad Karma
  14. PP020MDIaka – Zappenduster
  15. PP019MDCartridge – Mystic Key

Radio set20070:59:58

FlowproLive at Bermudafunk

An hour on air at Bermudafunk, recorded on 22 April 2007.

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DJ mix1:01:49

SileniSalamirendered

Fantastic experimental mix by Chris Sileni from Subvert Central days.

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Three signalsPick your genre

Every release carries one of three colours. Blue for drum & bass, orange for electronic, yellow for the experimental side. Pick one to tune the catalogue.

PP001 — PP035Catalogue

PP001VDDrum & Bass

cycom

Void

PP002VDDrum & Bass

barth

Schizophrenic

PP003MDDrum & Bass

buzz

Soulburn

PP004MEElectronic

manu harmilapi

Plain Electronics

PP005MDDrum & Bass

iaka

The One We Like

PP006MEElectronic

mikrogram

Bolzplatz

PP007MEElectronic

manu harmilapi

Suspect Error

PP008MDDrum & Bass

cycom

Mathematics

PP009MDDrum & Bass

martsman

Genom

PP010MEElectronic

staub

Little By Little

PP011MDDrum & Bass

hek187

Enemy’s Inside

PP012MXExperimental

lxc

We Have To Hold Apart

PP013MDDrum & Bass

bad matter

Soul On Fire

PP014MDDrum & Bass

macc

Air Drumming

PP015MXExperimental

repetition|distract

Recordings 07/2004 - 05/2005

PP016MEElectronic

ramon leon

James Monacco

PP017MDDrum & Bass

buzz

Revelation

PP018MXExperimental

mikrogram vs. buzz

The Soul Box

PP019MDDrum & Bass

cartridge

No Data

PP020MDDrum & Bass

iaka

Es Rappelt Im Karton

PP021MXExperimental

ijo

Untitled EP

PP022MDDrum & Bass

hek187

Big Dawg EP

PP023MDDrum & Bass

alpha omega

Bad Karma

PP024MXExperimental

hi-lar

2087 Seconds

PP025MEElectronic

simon/off

Crime EP

PP026MDDrum & Bass

fushara

Rising

PP027MDDrum & Bass

mendelayev

Diagonal Tunnels EP

PP028MXExperimental

soulsonic

Evil Side EP

PP029MDDrum & Bass

cycom

Isotope

PP030MDDrum & Bass

sub

ID

PP031MEElectronic

uv

The UV EP

PP032MDDrum & Bass

n-noiz

Unbounding The Future E.P.

PP033MDDrum & Bass

ijo

Floka/minutower

PP034MDDrum & Bass

shift

Koji

PP035MDDrum & Bass

hek187

Sleepwalker EP

25 artists · signal portraitsArtists

Producers from Hamburg to Moscow, Dublin to Edmonton, each in the colour of their sound. Hover a portrait to drop the colour, click to meet the artist.

Drum & Bass
iaka
Hamburg2 releases
Drum & Bass
cycom
Hamburg3 releases
Electronic
mikrogram
Hamburg2 releases
Electronic
manu harmilapi
Hamburg2 releases
Drum & Bass
martsman
Berlin1 release
Drum & Bass
flowpro
BerlinDJ · crew
Drum & Bass
buzz
Dortmund3 releases
Drum & Bass
hek187
Berlin3 releases
Experimental
ijo
Lithuania2 releases
Drum & Bass
alpha omega
Dublin1 release
Drum & Bass
bad matter
Berlin1 release
Drum & Bass
barth
Leipzig1 release
Drum & Bass
cartridge
Edmonton1 release
Drum & Bass
fushara
London1 release
Experimental
hi-lar
Darmstadt1 release
Experimental
lxc
Leipzig1 release
Drum & Bass
macc
Barking1 release
Drum & Bass
mendelayev
Moscow1 release
Drum & Bass
n-noiz
Berlin1 release
Electronic
ramon leon
Hamburg1 release
Experimental
repetition|distract
Bonn1 release
Electronic
simon/off
Graz1 release
Drum & Bass
sub
Innsbruck1 release
Electronic
uv
North Wales1 release
Drum & Bass
rmf
ViennaRoster

Founded in 2001, free netlabel from 2005 onwards, thirty-five releases. Now defunct, but our music stays online, free, for good.

  1. 2001

    Plain productions starts as a drum & bass vinyl label in Hamburg. Two 12-inches: Cycom’s “Void” and Barth’s “Schizophrenic”.

  2. 2005

    Relaunch as the netlabel plainaudio. Every release a free MP3 download under Creative Commons, sub-label plain electronics for the 4/4 side.

  3. 2012

    The label goes quiet after PP035MD. The archive stays up at archive.org and SoundCloud.

Run by Manu Harmilapi (Iaka) and Thomas Fleischer (Cycom, Mikrogram) with Martsman, Flowpro and Buzz.

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