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They asked… You answered.
Back in May Let It Roll gave you one of the toughest musical ultimatums you’ll ever face: deduce your many many favourite drum & bass tunes down to a mere five and take part in a poll that will attempt to define what the public agree on as the top 100 most universal D&B bangers of all time.
The results have now been published and the top 10 was revealed in a truly unique way at this year’s Let It Roll over the weekend. An extraordinary countdown-style show on the Temple Stage on the final night of the event, it was one of the many impressive additions that made this year’s Let It Roll the best one yet (as we’ll explain in a review coming later this week) Continuing the festival’s high-tech, high-production signature – but with added en-masse sing-alongs – the countdown rallied up the troops with A/V theatrics, anticipation, fun and shedloads of fireworks.
Wilkinson’s Afterglow took the number one spot following tracks such as Dead Limit, Desire, Tarantula, Tour, Mr Happy, The Nine and Timewarp. It was one of five of Wilkinson tracks to hit the top 100.
Other heavy hitters include Mefjus and High Contrast who both have four tracks in the chart while Wilko’s main b2b buddy Sub Focus scored five chart positions (including two for Timewarp and Timewarp VIP) Elsewhere Dimension landed an impressive seven entries, Pendulum appear in the chart eight times and Noisia sit pretty with a massive 10 publicly-voted entries.
Loaded with a pretty equal measure of surprises and classics, while the D&B loving public will never be able to agree on certain anthems, this top 100 does suggest there are some tracks that genuinely are universal…. And it certainly felt like that on the night as the top 10 was revealed in the thick of one of the most impressive, vibiest and well-organised events in Let It Roll history. Full results below:
1. Wilkinson – Afterglow
2. Noisia & The Upbeats – Dead Limit
3. Sub Focus & Dimension – Desire
4. Pendulum & Fresh – Tarantula feat. $Pyda & tenor fly
5. Macky Gee – Tour
6. DJ Hazard & D Minds – Mr Happy
7. Bad Company – The Nine
8. Sub Focus – Timewarp
9. Audio – Collision
10. The Prodigy – Voodoo People (Pendulum Remix)
11. B-Complex – Beautiful Lies
12. Ed Rush & Optical – Chubrub
13. Culture Shock – Bunker
14. High Contrast – Days Go By
15. Pendulum – Hold Your Color
16. Rido & Counterstrike – Let It Roll
17. Chase & Status – No Problem
18. Pendulum – Blood Sugar
19. Wilkinson – Take You Higher
20. Commix – Be True
21. Dimension – Generator
22. Wilkinson – All For You (feat. Karen Harding)
23. Konflict – Messiah
24. Pendulum – Hold You Color (Noisia Remix)
25. Andy C & Fiora – Heartbeat Loud
26. Dimension – Devotion (feat. Cameron Hayes)
27. Noisia & The Upbeats – Dustup
28. Gydra – Ikra
29. Maduk – Ghost Assassin (feat. Veela)
30. High Contrast – If We Ever
31. Delta Heavy – White Flag
32. State Of Mind – Sun King
33. Wilkinson – Half Light (feat. Tom Cane)
34. Calibre & High Contrast – Mr Majestic
35. Origin Unknown – Valley Of The Shadows
36. Camo & Krooked – Ember
37. dBridge & Vegas True – Romance
38. Hybrid Minds – Touch (feat. Tiffani Juno)
39. Pendulum – Watercolor
40. DJ Hazard – Bricks Don’t Roll
41. Rusko – Everyday (Netsky Remix)
42. Gydra – Hearing Damage
43. Black Sun Empire – Dawn Of A Dark Day (feat. Foreign Beggars)
44. Noisia – Into Dust
45. Chase Status – Program (Feat. Irah)
46. Noisia – Stigma
47. Pendulum – Slam
48. Pendulum – Witchcraft
49. TC – Tap Ho
50. Netsky – Memory Lane
51. Macky Gee – Black Widow
52. Netsky – Thunder (feat. Emeli Sande)
53. Mefjus – Blitz
54. DJ Marky & XRS – LK feat. Stamina MC
55. Dimension – Techno
56. Mefjus – Suicide Bassline VIP
57. Chase & Status – Pieces feat. Plan B
58. John B – Up All Night
59. Calyx & TeeBee – Long Gone
60. Delta Heavy – White Flag VIP
61. Chase & Status – Take Me Away
62. Sub Focus – X ray
63. The Qemists Stompbox (Spor Remix)
64. Adam F – Circles
65. Metrik – We Got It (feat. Rothwell) (Remix)
66. Noisia – Block Control
67. Wilkinson – Sweet Lies feat. Karen Harding
68. Black Sun Empire & State Of Mind – Caterpillar (feat. Virus Syndicate)
69. Pythius & Neonlight – Tarkin
70. Netsky – Rio (feat Digital Farm Animals)
71 René LaVice – Cold Crush feat. Gydra
72. Major Lazer – Get Free (feat. Amber Coffman)
73. Delta Heavy – Kill Room
74. Logistics – Together
75. Dimension – Whip Slap
76. Dimension – Love To Me
77. Sub Focus – Rock it
78. Noisia & Prolix – Asteroids
79. Moving Fusion – Turbulence
80. Current Value – That Smile
81 The Prototypes – Kill The Silence Feat. Ayah Marar
82. Current Value – Dark Rain
83. Metrik – Hackers
84. Noisia – Anomaly
85. TC – Tap Ho (AMC Remix)
86. Delta Heavy – Ghost
87. Mefjus – The Sirens
88. UK Apache & Shy FX – Original Nuttah
89. Sub Focus – Timewarp VIP
90. Bad Company – Planet Dust
91. B-Complex – Beautiful Lies VIP
92. Camo & Krooked – Bad Times
93. Dimension – Pull Me Under (feat. Raphaella)
94. Kanine – Want You
95. Noisia – Could This Be
96. High Contrast – Remind Me
97 Mefjus – Together
98 Mr. Frenkie – Bass Symptom
99. Noisia – Tentacles
100. Pythius – BBT