Liquicity

Liquicity is the home of liquid drum & bass — the Dutch label, YouTube channel, and events brand that turned a YouTube curation hobby into a worldwide scene.

It started in 2008 with Maris Goudzwaard's YouTube channel, built on a simple conviction: there was a softer, more melodic side of drum & bass that deserved its own flag. He planted it. The channel gave the sound a name, a visual identity, and a community — the "Liquicitizens" — and artists making that music finally had a home. When Maduk's tracks caught the channel's ear in 2011, the partnership became Liquicity Records, and the hobby became a full-time operation.

The three pillars feed each other. The YouTube channel premieres tracks and mixes. The label releases them. Liquicity Festival and the events arm put them on stage — the festival became a pilgrimage for liquid DnB fans, the kind of event people fly across Europe for. Few electronic brands have ever integrated discovery, release, and live experience this tightly.

The sound is the point: rolling breaks, warm basslines, euphoric melodies — drum & bass you can feel in your chest without the aggression. In a genre often defined by hardness, Liquicity proved softness could headline.

Why people watch and listen: the channel is a bottomless well of liquid DnB, from label staples to demo submissions from unknown producers chasing the dream. Electronic fans who like Monstercat's curation or UKF's bass-music authority get the melodic deep cut here.

Previously covers Liquicity because scenes need homes and this one built its own. Put on a Liquicity mix and the galaxy of dreams does the rest.

The Astronauts program shows where it's headed. Liquicity's membership community, the demo pipeline for new producers, the ever-growing festival — the brand keeps investing in the scene it created rather than just harvesting it. New liquid DnB talent still breaks through this channel first. Previously covers Liquicity because curation with conviction built a genre's home, and the door is still open.

The founding story is the classic YouTube fairytale. In 2008, Dutch drum & bass fan Maris Goudzwaard started the Liquicity channel from his bedroom with a simple observation: the softer, more melodic side of drum & bass — liquid funk — had no home. The big channels wanted jump-up and neurofunk; the pretty stuff had nowhere to live. He gave it a name, a visual identity of dreamy anime-style artwork, and a regular upload schedule, and the audience that had been scattered across forums found each other. They called themselves Liquicitizens, and they multiplied into the millions.

The label came from a single track. In the summer of 2011, Goudzwaard heard "Avalon" — the first production from a young Dutch producer named Mark van der Schoot, who went by Maduk — and uploaded it to the channel. It fit perfectly. The partnership that followed became Liquicity Records within months, and Maduk became the label's flagship artist, winning Best Newcomer Producer at the Drum & Bass Awards in 2014 and Best Newcomer DJ in 2015. The January 2013 founding of the events and label company made the hobby a full-time operation run by Goudzwaard, van der Schoot, and Boudewijn Kustner — and the three-pillar machine was complete: channel discovers, label releases, festival celebrates.

The roster tells the story of the genre's growth. Maduk's Transformations and the legendary Liquicity Yearmixes — hour-long annual journeys through the label's best, mixed by Maduk since 2012 — are the label's twin flagships. Around them: Keeno's cinematic, almost orchestral liquid; Fox Stevenson's genre-hopping energy; Netsky, the Belgian superstar who helped take liquid global; Hybrid Minds, Hugh Hardie, and a rolling cast of newcomers from the demo inbox. The sublabels Escapism, Galacy, and Ridmic extend the reach into adjacent sounds, but the core formula never changes: euphoric, melodic, emotional drum & bass.

The festival is where the community becomes physical. Liquicity Festival grew from small Amsterdam club nights into one of the biggest drum & bass festivals in the world — a summer gathering where thousands of Liquicitizens fly in from across Europe and beyond for days of liquid under the open sky. The 2025 aftermovie closed with an announcement that says everything about the brand's trajectory: a ten-year festival anniversary celebration scheduled for July 24–26, 2026. A YouTube curation channel's annual party doesn't sell out a decade in by accident; it does it by building something people genuinely belong to.

Why it endures is the part the music industry still underestimates. Liquicity didn't chase trends — it defined a taste and served it with obsessive consistency for nearly two decades. The artwork style, the upload cadence, the Yearmix ritual, the "We Are Liquicity" ethos: every piece reinforces the same promise, which is that this corner of the internet will always have your kind of music. In an era of algorithmic feeds and six-second attention, a channel built on twenty-minute mixes and annual hour-long journeys thrives because it respects the listener. Put on a Yearmix, and you understand why the galaxy-of-dreams branding isn't kitsch — it's the sound of a community that found its home.