Response & Pliskin's Designer Manipulation is out on Northern Front Records, with Apple Music giving 24 April 2026 as its release date. It runs to 4 tracks, filed under Jungle and drum and bass.
The release
The track list, in order, reads: 1. Conscious (9:49); 2. Pulling Strings (6:11); 3. Crack is the Boss (8:32); 4. Seedy Soul (6:27).
Taken together the release runs for about 31 minutes. That is long enough to hear properly in one sitting, and short enough to put on a second time.
The label
The copyright line on the Apple Music listing names Northern Front Records. Releases from independent labels are the core of drum and bass, and following a label is one of the best ways to find new records.
In this issue
For this month's magazine, one of its tracks is among this issue's Our Top 10 and it is in this issue's Fifty Cuts Deep. Every month we match new drum and bass releases to their Apple Music listings and report what we can verify. This one was released on 24 April 2026, and the listing was checked on 16 October 2026.
A drum and bass single on Black Butter Records, out on 9 October 2026, with the story of the artist, the label and where it sits in this month's issue.
