How LoNgKiCk Built Cosmic Dust, a Light Drum and Bass Single After a Run of Dark Techno
A Bucharest Producer Sets Warm Synths Over an Energetic Drum and Bass Rhythm
LoNgKiCk built Cosmic Dust from two parts. Warm, atmospheric synths sit on top, and a light, energetic drum and bass rhythm runs underneath. The Bucharest producer and DJ released the single on 9 October 2026. Most of what came before it this year, however, was much darker techno.
LoNgKiCk has Cosmic Dust in the playlist below, and the project’s full run of coverage sits on the LoNgKiCk artist profile. The single reached TopMusic.News through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news desks. Press play, then keep reading for how it was built.
LoNgKiCk Gives the Message of Cosmic Dust a Twenty-Rule Manifesto on YouTube
The idea behind the track is plain. We only live once, so the point is to make the most of it together. LoNgKiCk treats cosmic dust as a first rule of unity. Everyone comes from the same material, so division and religion can be put to one side. People have only ever got through hard times by looking out for each other and treating one another more gently.
Still, the single does not leave that idea to the listener to guess. Its video, posted the day the single came out as COSMIC DUST (The Manifesto), pairs the track with twenty rules about love and standing up for each other.
The description beneath it makes the same point in a lighter tone. Everyone is made of the same dust, so be kind, and tell the people you love that you love them. It then asks viewers which rule hit hardest, and invites them to send the video to whoever came to mind.
Cosmic Dust Follows VERTIGO and SOLAR FLARE, Two Dark Techno Singles From the Same Year
That softness is new for the project. The Spotify page sells LoNgKiCk on heavy kicks, dark atmospheres and raw energy, tracks made for big sound systems, with DJs invited to try them out in their sets.
The September singles bear that out. Both VERTIGO and SOLAR FLARE reached YouTube in early September. LoNgKiCk filed VERTIGO under dark techno and rave, and pitched it as the sound of panic in a basement club. Then SOLAR FLARE reached Bandcamp on 11 September, with tags for industrial techno and DnB.
Alongside the singles sit the mixes. The SAFE SPACE series opened with SAFE SPACE #0 // Opening Night, and there is a PURE PARTY live mix of tech house and rave. In addition, the SAFE SPACE poster introduces the project’s mascot, a small white robot with LK on its chest.
Cosmic Dust carries the LoNg KiCk Records label, so the project puts out its own music. Its Spotify credits also name a single composer, Roman Ciprian Marius.
Cosmic Dust Keeps the Drum and Bass Rhythm Light So the Warm Synths Can Carry the Track
The arrangement rests on one contrast. The rhythm is energetic but light, closer to a steady pulse than to the heavy kick the earlier singles were built around. Meanwhile, the warm synths carry the melody.
The track runs to 3:57. On YouTube, LoNgKiCk files it under DnB/Garage. The softer side was already on the map, too: SOLAR FLARE’s Bandcamp page listed chillstep among its tags. In other words, Cosmic Dust turns a side note of that single into the main idea.
As a result, it is a record for listeners of melodic dnb. It also suits anyone who wants the energy of the genre without its weight.
LTJ Bukem and Netsky Show Where LoNgKiCk’s Lighter Drum and Bass Comes From
LTJ Bukem built Good Looking Records around the jazzy, spacious end of jungle in the 1990s. His 1995 track Horizons became his best-known record. His Logical Progression compilations then gave that gentler sound a name, intelligent drum and bass. Cosmic Dust, warm synths over a light rhythm, belongs to that branch of the family tree.
Netsky came up on Hospital Records making liquid funk, the melodic, layered side of the genre. His second album, 2, came out in 2012. A deluxe edition followed, led by the single We Can Only Live Today (Puppy). That title sits close to the idea at the centre of Cosmic Dust.
From the TopMusic.News curator team: “Cosmic Dust sits fifth in our Electronic Chillout, Chillstep, Chillwave, Downtempo playlist. It comes straight after Bonobo and Bajka’s Days To Come, below Bonobo’s Cirrus. It brings a dnb rhythm into a run of downtempo records, and we would play it to anyone who finds most of the genre too heavy.”
Start with Cosmic Dust, then play SOLAR FLARE to hear how far the project travelled in a month.
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