An introduction to Polish drum & bass

Evergreen, Tom Encore and Inside Defect take us on a 70 minute homegrown trip

Here’s a schooling you didn’t expect to see on your bingo card today… Polish drum & bass!

We’ll cut straight to the chase and embed this fantastic mix right here. 70 minutes of productions, remixes, edits, bootlegs and dubs from Polish D&B producers, mixed live at Pojanie Festival this summer. Press play and get taken on a full spectrum trip through the subgenres Polish style courtesy of artists Evergreen, Tom Encore and Inside Defect.

 

 

Featuring tracks from Evergreen, Tom Encore and Inside Defect themselves plus many other Polish artists such as Silence Groove, Alegria, Satl, Tesseracts, Lukher, Blinde, Radicall, Skrimor (and more), the mix is part of a project called We Have DNB At Home.

The idea started when I played a set consisting of only my productions at PoJanie fest 2022,” says Evergreen, Pojanie Festival founder. “After this I immediately decided I wanted to expand the project not only to my music but to many other polish producers and put the mix together with fellow DJs. Because I have the privilege to run PoJanie Fest with my amazing group of friends I had an opportunity to do it exactly the way I wanted. Tom Encore and Inside Defect were obvious choices for me, because they are amazing at what they do but also because we have been friends for years.”

Friends and family is definitely the vibe of Pojanie Festival. A cute gathering of ravers in the stunning surroundings of Poland’s northern lake district, it’s more of a free party vibe than a rigid rule-fuelled festival and runs non stop for three days with a barn as the main dancefloor. I was honoured to be invited to play there this year and can vouch first hand for the community surrounding Pojanie Festival and the wider drum & bass culture in Poland. Welcoming, passionate and feircely up for the vibes. Alongside Akov, we were the first international guests at Pojanie Festival and it felt like a real privilege to take part in the event. Sadly I had to leave the following morning for another gig back in the UK and I missed this performance which happened the following day.

 

 

I’m really happy and proud we came through with this project,” Evergreen tells us. “I cannot thank enough to Tom Encore and Inside Defect for trusting me to go into this project and also to all producers who provided the tunes. Starting with well established heavyweights like Satl or Silence Groove, who have been releasing on massive labels for years, but also amazing newcomers like Lukher or Tesseracts who have released music on Modus, DIVIDID, Eatbrain, Symbiotik Pilot. Then there are people like Alegria, Bevent, Blinde, Blueboss, Casper Levy, Creafect, Hatework Machine, IMIGHT, Kosay, Livtet, Marika, Radicall, Robocat, Simba Skrimor, SNPR, We rob rave… There is so much talent right now in the Polish D&B scene.”

This mix definitely vouches for that and it also shows a tight friendship between the three artists and their friends and fans on the dancefloor. There’s something special about moments like this where many people are together at the start of something that’s growing with so much passion and energy you can almost feel it pulsating. It’s something anyone who has grown up in more rural and isolated spots miles and miles away from the main cities and countries where D&B initially took root and spawned will feel and resonate hard with and has stacks of potential for the future. Evergreen tells us he’s already planning their next We Have DNB At Home session at Pojanie Festival 2025. A plans permitting and luck willing, we’ll be there to witness it first hand too!

Huge love to the Polish drum & bass scene. Check the mix, soak up that tracklist below and follow and support the artists. You can start by following these guys… Evergreen, Tom Encore, Inside Defect.

TRACKLIST

Evergreen x Tom Encore x Inside Defect – Infinite Gold
Greenhouse Effect – Invocation
DLR, Script – Perception (Inside Defect Remix Remaster 2023)
Silence Groove – Biter
Lukher – Daybreak
Tom Encore x Alegria – Call The Shots
Evergreen – You got
Inside Defect – The Pot Party
Evergreen – Crush it
Blueboss – Juice
Noisia & The Upbeats – Dead limit (Evergreen bootleg)
Evergreen – Chestnut plaza
Duskee – So Fly Ft. DRS, Satl & Verb
Radicall – Right_Time
Satl – Sundress (feat. Ellis Esco & MilanSangar)
1Step2Far & Radicall – Let Me Shine
Robocat, LIVTET – Desire
Hatework Machine – Artifact Sanctuary (Bevent remix)
Evergreen – Flip
Evergreen – Wanna see you soon
Radicall – All Yours
Hugh Hardie, Silence Groove – City Soul
Evergreen – Avla
Tesseracts – Think about it
Skrimor – Boogie Woogie
Creafect – System Overload
Lukher – Preservance
Tesseracts – Can’t stop
Evergreen – Dundee
Tom Finster – No Compromise (Lukher remix)
Marika – Jesteś (Simba remix)
Tom Encore & Alegria – Don’t Flinch
Radicall – Fotoplastikon
Blinde – ID
Radicall – Ilusions
NACO – WAVEFUNK (WE ROB RAVE REMIX)
Inside Defect – Hit The Game (dirtyxmasversion)
Phibes – Started this fire (IMIGHT & SNPR Remix)
Eiffel 65 – Too Much Of Heaven (Blinde bootleg)
Casper Levy – Leave This Place [VIPER]
Hatework Machine – Sequence
Halogenix – Blej (Blinde bootleg)
Lukher – Be Better
TRAKA — Start Taking Note feat. Killa P (Kosay Remix)
AKOV, TESSERACTS – Chug Norris
TESSERACTS – Tension
Evergreen & Tom Encore & Inside defect – Funky freak

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