LoJO_7 said:
If it sounds like an off balanced washing machine fucking a metal trash can, as a litter of puppies tumbles down mulitiple flights of stairs I love IT.
I lol'd at this.
Having now attended a number of kickass drum n' bass nights at various venues, frequently tripping, I have decided this is a fine genre of music for the most part. It's a lot of fun to dance to, very high energy. It just has a very different sound from any genre you can find on the radio in the US -- R&B probably comes the closest. It's rare to hear mainstream tunes for which the main melody is played in the deep ranges, or the beat is so fast and complicated.
But it's the use of bass which fascinates me the most. It takes a very good, powerful, high quality subwoofer to really appreciate drum n' bass. Whenever I've listened to it on psychedelics, I've had this fantasy of scouring the world and founding this institute which would be a repository of all instruments that could put out a very low pitch -- gongs, tubas, dij, stringed instruments, enormous organ pipes, etc -- and using them both to put on live dnb shows, and to make hi-fi recordings for synthesization.
I've actually had the same fansasy about a vibrating washing machine, also the vibrating foundation of a building, producing the bass notes. I've noticed a number of things we don't normally think of as musical instruments putting out tones that remind me of those in a synthesized bassline. Trucks, for example, when you're up close to them.
I imagine dnb being very popular among deaf people, since you can truly feel it as much as you hear it.