By Gemma, Jade & Parishti

Drum

BASS‘N’

By Gemma, Jade & Parishti

What it is...

Drum and bass is a type of electronic dance music which merged in the 1990’s. The genre is characterised by fast tempo broken beats (normally between 160-180 beats per minute) with heavy sub bass lines. Rooted in the UK ‘rave scene’... It has spread around the world, especially to Europe, Russia and USA. Up until the late 1990’s-mid 2000’s. Drum and bass remained a relatively underground genre. However, artists such as pendulum and high contrast and labels such as ‘Breakbeat Kaos’ and Hospital Records have helped push the popularity and awareness of the genre into the public domain.

MediaRadio:The two of the highest profile radio stations playing drum and bass shows are “The Drum and Bass Show” which is played on BBC Radio 1, in the USA and Canada on Sirius XM, and DJ Hype on Kiss 100 in London, BBC 1Xtra also features the genre heavily. London pirate radio stations have been instrumental in the development of Drum and Bass, with stations such as Kool FM which is still broadcasting today having done so since 1991, Don FM which is the only Drum and Bass pirate to have gained a temporary legal license, along with Rude FM, Origin FM, Wax Fm and Eruption.

Magazine:The best known drum and bass magazine was ‘Kmag’ magazine which was formerly called ‘Knowledge Magazine’ before it went online in August 2009. Other publications include the longest running drum and bass magazine worldwide ‘ATM Magazine’ and Austrian-based ‘Resident’.

Online:Internet sites are a source of the latest mixes professional or amateur and tracks by unsigned producers Drum and Bass for unsigned artists. The dominant and most popular websites are Dogs On Acid and Drum and Bass Arena. YouTube has played a major role for Drum and Bass on the internet with the appearance of ‘Pandadnb’ in 2006 and ‘DnBrevolution’ in 2007 and later followed by Drum and Bass Arena, UKF and various other successful channels.

TV:Drum and bass often makes an appearance as background music especially in ‘Top Gear’ and television commercials thanks to its aggressive and energetic beats. Cartoon Network's Toonami programming block also employs it for television spots and show intros,like the relaunch of SCI FI Channel (1997) segue music by Jungle Sky label.

Sub-GenresThrough the years drum and bass has developed to form its own sub-genres;• Darkstep• Drumfunk• Electrostep• Futurestep• Hardstep• Intelligent or atmospheric• Jazzstep• Jump-up• Liquid funk• Techstep• Breakcore

Audience...

• From our audience, we would expect these people to be interested in good lighting, an upbeat atmosphere; possibly a club, raving imagery.

• All of these things link to a concept style video.

CAMO & KROOKED

KROME & TIME EXAMPLE

DJ FRESH

PENDULUM

CHASE AND STATUS