From as early as 1991, tracks were beginning to strip away some of the heavier sampling and 'hardcore noises' and create more bassline and breakbeat led tracks. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a growing nightclub and overnight outdoor event culture gave birth to new genres in the rave scene including breakbeat hardcore, darkcore, and hardcore jungle, which combined sampled syncopated beats, or breakbeats, and other samples from a wide range of different musical genres and, occasionally, samples of music, dialogue and effects from films and television programmes. See also: Breakbeat hardcore and hardcore jungle Whilst the origin of drum and bass music is in the UK, the genre has evolved considerably with many other prominent fanbases located in all over the world. Since then, the genre has seen a significant growth in exposure. Major international music labels had shown very little interest in the drum and bass scene until BMG Rights Management acquired RAM in February 2016. Drum and bass has influenced many other genres like hip hop, big beat, dubstep, house, trip hop, ambient music, techno, jazz, rock and pop.ĭrum and bass is dominated by a relatively small group of record labels. liquid drum and bass), jump up, drumfunk, sambass, and drill 'n' bass. Drum and bass subgenres include breakcore, ragga jungle, hardstep, darkstep, techstep, neurofunk, ambient drum and bass, liquid funk (a.k.a.

Another feature of the style is the complex syncopation of the drum tracks' breakbeat. A major influence was the original Jamaican dub and reggae sound that influenced jungle's bass-heavy sound. The popularity of drum and bass at its commercial peak ran parallel to several other UK dance styles. The genre grew out of the UK's jungle scene in the early 1990s. An example of a D&B song in the subgenre of liquid D&Bĭrum and bass (also written as Drum&Bass or drum'n'bass and commonly abbreviated as D&B, DnB, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic music characterized by fast breakbeats (typically 165-185 beats per minute ) with heavy bass and sub-bass lines, samples, and synthesizers.

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