There is no clear point at which jungle became drum and bass, though most jungle producers continue nowadays to produce what they call drum and bass.Īs the music style became more polished and sophisticated, it began to shift from pirate to commercial radio and gain widespread acceptance (circa 1995-1997). At this time jungle began to be associated with criminal activity and perhaps as a reaction or perhaps independently of this, producers began to draw away from the ragga style and create what they labelled drum and bass. By 1994 jungle began to gain mainstream popularity and junglists as fans of the music began calling themselves became a recognisable part of British youth subculture. These tracks often combined ragga vocal tracks, broken beats and basslines.

As time drew by, musical tracks containing only broken beats began to be known as 'jungle' and began to constitute a separate and recognizable musical genre (circa 1991-1992) popular at raves and on pirate radio in urban Britain. The music of acid house combined regular beats alongside broken, syncopated, beats and strong basslines and fast tempos (faster than house music tempos). The late 1980's and early 1990's saw the development of a musical style and scene (referring to the social aspects around the music) known as acid house in the UK. Today, drum and bass is still considered an underground musical style, but its currents of influence run throughout popular music and culture.ĭrum and bass began as an offshoot of the United Kingdom breakbeat hardcore and rave scene of the late 1980s and over the first decade of its existence there have been many permutations in its style, incorporating elements from dancehall, electro, funk, hiphop, house, jazz, metal, pop, reggae, rock, techno and trance.įor the history of drum and bass music, please refer to the history article which details the origins of this genre in UK rave culture alongside the origin of the name jungle, the appearance of junglist subculture, the change in name and musical evolution to drum and bass and its development through its short-lived mainstream popularity, subsequent crisis and post-millennial rebirth. Emerging in the early 1990s, the genre is characterised by fast tempo broken beat drums (generally between 160 & 180 beats per minute) with heavy, often intricate basslines. Small, largely based in UK at first, now globalĭarkstep - Drumfunk - Hardstep - Intelligent drum and bass - Jazzstep - Jump-Up - Liquid funk - Neurofunk - Ragga jungle - Sambass - Techstepīreakcore - Breakstep - Darkcore - Dubstep - Hipstep - Techbreaks - Raggacoreĭrum and bass artists, Drum and bass record labelsĭrum and bass (commonly abbreviated to DnB or drum n bass) is a type of electronic dance music also known as jungle. Synthesizer - Drum machine - Sequencer - Keyboard - Sampler - Laptop Related subjects: Musical genres, styles, eras and events Drum and bassīreakbeat hardcore, Techno, Hip hop, Reggae/ Ragga, Dancehall/ Dub, Funk, Breakbeat, Jazz

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