Drum 'n' Bass - MEGATHREAD

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Drum and bass is wonderful music. It has so many subgenres within it - those who claim it is repetitive and all songs sound the same have no clue as to what drum and bass is.

I understand it is a particular style of music that can be difficult to get, but if you know the scene and listen closely there is so much behind it. So much variety and styles, so that you never get bored as a DJ.
 
Drum and bass was fresh in 95.. metalheadz, good looking and all that

But could I listen to a full set of strictly d'n'b today... dont think so (that goes for any one 'genre')

that said there are always some gems coming out, really really feeling the Makoto album for example.
 
pkt said:
As far as electronic goes, d&b is at the bottom of the food chain...
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Hmmm we need an explanation as to how you feel this way, or else your opinion is about as useless as an old crusty cum stain in your moms underwear=D

Aww it's ok little baby, you wouldn't be able to handle good dnb anyways. You're just not at that level yet.;)
 
i m in love with d'n'b, dubstep and breakbeatz.
if you like high contrast, mistabishi, danny byrd, nu:tone

you should really check out
hospital records mix 1-6
fucking amazing music, its from england but its sick.

e turned me into a dnb lover
 
^^majority of DnB is from England, it's the homeland. I like a lot of older hospital sound like pre-05 thou. The new stuff is ok but not what it was like IMO.

edit for new hospital I liked Nu:tone back of beyond LP
 
infojunkie said:
In my opinion it's boring.
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fair enough, but tell us this..If you find DnB boring than what types of music do you like? IMO outsiders can call it too fast, too repetitive, or too much BUT never boring. You feeling the 200+bpm than, huh?:D Certainly not me. DnB's tempo is exactly where I like it. Of course breakz are my next favorite so I'm always willing to take it down a little bit here and there.


dr.strangelove said:
I hate it. The country and western of electronic music. Sounds like someone took a drum set and a bass and threw them down some stairs and hit record. The most caucasion of all electronic music. No soul.

"Drowning" by AK1200 is the only exception to the rule.
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now now apparently you're listening to the wrong stuff. An example is the only dnb track you like which is a garbage DnB track, to say the least. LOL ak1200 makes some bs tunes and wack mixes IMO. No soul, well have you checked out Marcus Intalex's label Soul:R? And that pots and pans sound is key to crap like limewax and dylan (which is also shit). Maybe you should check out other artists since DnB has many and many different sounds. I suggest Calibre, Mathematics, Atlantic Connection, Mutt, older High Contrast, Alix Perez, Marcus Intalex for you=D
 
drumnbass420, I still stick by my original opinion (and that is all it is) but I will also look into all the artist you suggested. I would also agree with your AK1200 comments. I love "Drowning" purely for the vocal which I no he had nothing to do with. Thanks for the suggestions.
 
dr.strangelove said:
drumnbass420, I still stick by my original opinion (and that is all it is) but I will also look into all the artist you suggested. I would also agree with your AK1200 comments. I love "Drowning" purely for the vocal which I no he had nothing to do with. Thanks for the suggestions.
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Im sorry for ranting out that day. It's cool you don't like it. I was just being a little bitchy that day. I dunno how ppl call it boring though. If anything outsiders would think it's too much at once, too fast, etc. It's cool thou:)

a really good vocal track IMO is Take Some Time by D.kay and Lee. It's so beautiful I could cry<3
If I can suggest a dnb track to any outsider it would be that one..


here is Take Some Time http://www.chemical-records.co.uk/sc/servlet/Info?Track=UNDERC002
 
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Hmmm we need an explanation as to how you feel this way, or else your opinion is about as useless as an old crusty cum stain in your moms underwear

Aww it's ok little baby, you wouldn't be able to handle good dnb anyways. You're just not at that level yet.
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Yes i dont like it because its too monotonous for me and IMO its just too fast to be enjoyable. I enjoy something a little more melodic or something i can chill to, im a huge fan of most electronic music with the exception of D&B, jumping up and down like a chipmunk on meth isnt exactly my idea of fun, where im from mostly kids and skinheads listen to d&b :p
 
Yeah DnB is kind of the metal of the electronic world. Having said that I love it and think criticisms of it being monotonous are a bit silly. DnB is seriously massive in Perth though. Probably 70% or more of the electronic music scene... You would be surprised at the diversity of the DnB heads.
 
pkt said:
Yes i dont like it because its too monotonous for me and IMO its just too fast to be enjoyable. I enjoy something a little more melodic or something i can chill to, im a huge fan of most electronic music with the exception of D&B, jumping up and down like a chipmunk on meth isnt exactly my idea of fun, where im from mostly kids and skinheads listen to d&b :p
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Umm there is melodic dnb, trust me there is a whole variety of subgenres. Actually the dark and melodic dnb is my fav. Click on that link I posted and you'd be very very suprised. If you wouldn't consider that melodic than your hearing maybe a little off. Or you don't know what melodic is. Not all dnb sounds like that you described. I actually hate about 50% of dnb TBH esp the stuff that is generally big. I really hate pendulum, subfocus, clipz, twisted indivdual, etc. Im not a skinhead my mom's side of the family is Jewish and I celebrate all the holidays with them and eat matzah ball soup, lakas, kugel, even gefilte fish, lox and white fish. I am also not a kid either. Your generalizations are incorrect. By you assuming that all dnb sounds like tweeter music is very foolish.;)

I love all dance music but after about an hr of anything besides dnb and breakz, its very very dull...

ps-if you're in england the big stuff you're probably talking about is the crap that I don't like. It's kind of like the radio over here in the USA, horrible hip hop but you gotta look far under all the bs. There is real good stuff under it all....
 
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I find it's a novelty which soon gets boring.

Like if you go to a DnB night the music to begin with seems decent then a couple hours later it bores the shit out of me.
 
A friend of mine who's a big fan of dnb (the pop stuff, like Pendulum 8) ) put it this way: DnB is like sandwiches -- a style of preparation, rather than a cuisine, which has many possible flavors to fit all sorts of tastes. If you like two slices of bread with things in between, chances are there's a sandwich you'd like. If you like sped-up and looped drum breaks and a prominent bassline, chances are there's DnB you'd appreciate.

If you find the format itself offensive -- you like your percussion slow and subdued, you don't like the heavy use of bass you can feel, etc. -- then chances are you won't like any of it. In my experience, people who grew up thinking of classical or 'easy listening' stuff -- anything that uses sweeping lush violin solos or other melodies in the upper frequencies -- as their musical standard of beauty, are pretty turned off to drum n bass. For example, I imagine DnB being a hard sell in China, where the traditional music uses percussion very sparingly, and 'soft' shlock like The Carpenters is a perennial favorite.
 
MyDoorsAreOpen said:
DnB is like sandwiches -- a style of preparation, rather than a cuisine, which has many possible flavors to fit all sorts of tastes. If you like two slices of bread with things in between, chances are there's a sandwich you'd like.
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I see dnb as the cheese between the bread. While there are many types of cheese, in the end its still cheese and no matter how good cheese sometimes you a need to throw in a bit of lettuce or ham to keep tings interesting.
 
i have a love/hate relationship with dnb. the really good dnb tracks are incredible and will forever be in my rotation. however it is so hard to find stuff like that. so hard in fact, that i usually just ignore the genre all together. even if one ignores all of the "mainstream" or "pop" or whatever you want to call it, the stuff that really isn't music just a whole lot of drums/cymbals going really fast. even if you ignore that stuff, it can be difficult to find good stuff. one man's opinion though.

though stuff like:

Leaving Planet Earth by Talisman & Hudson
All Blue by Sigma

now that is quality. *sigh*
 
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