Wormhole

Wormhole is techstep's peak, drum & bass at its most mechanical and hostile, Ed Rush and Optical building rhythms that feel like machinery malfunctioning at speed. It's relentless and airless by design, the sound of the genre stripped of warmth and pushed toward pure aggression. It ranks at a hundred and twenty-seven because that airlessness limits it as a listen, but as a statement of a specific sound it's definitive, and it shaped a whole era of the genre.