Dyl has been a personal favorite of many of us here at Delayed for some time now. His albums, from 2015’s Elements LP, are rich, dense, green, dubby and warm drum and bass that you just want to cuddle up with. Forthcoming on the consistently excellent re:st label, Nothing As It Seems sees Dyl moving across varying tempos and genre to produce music that feels free to explore mood as a central consideration.

Premiering here, Maybe Not is a deceptively simple piece of drum and bass. Twisted organs soar over a laid-back minimal roller of a rhythm with skittering drum fills and breaks. A massive, ominous rumbling bassline really kicks things into gear, with the evolving harmonic interplay between the bass and organs provoking something akin to that rave euphoria that makes drum and bass so pleasurable for me. It is propulsive music that can alter and arrest, for a while, our experience of time. The energy tapers off marginally towards the back of the tune, but who cares? If I heard this tune drop when I was out somewhere, I’d lose my absolute shit.