drum&bass

Executive Steve

anybody here like any of it? since there are so many similarities between it and metal culture, and i mean socially historically as well as musically id be interested in finding out what you all think of it.... there do seem to be a fair amount of nu metaller here who probably dont realise that every slipknot drum break ever is just a live drummer attempting to convey the coiled energy of the amen break... seeing as how the two musics feed off each other the way they do... any one rate drum and bass music?

Karl Hungus

No, generally not. But I'd think that's mainly down to the fact that I prefer my Electronic music to have some vocals. Call me picky. Or perhaps I've not heard the 'Right' Drum&Bass for me? But until then I think I'll stick with some EBM.

Although, for those ignorant, could you possibly shed some light on the similarities between Metal and Drum & Bass historically? It would be much appreciated.

Badly Drunk Boy

I don't know too much about it, but I like Roni Size and a couple of others. At the first Creamfields I stayed in the Metalheadz tent for a while...'twasn't bad....

Executive Steve

what im getting at anhelwhore is that metal is more than music.... it colours your outlook on life and comes with a culture around it, its identity music that is informed by associations with various other media [fantasy, gothic fiction, paganism, folklore etc.] as well as by the manner in which it is enjoyed; for sheer intensity the two most exhilirating things on the planet have to be a metal band in a really small venue [upstairs in slatterys back in the day] or a powerful soundsystem in a small club belting out dancefloor drum and bass with a competent mc [ the link between drum and bass mc's, "conventional" rappers, reggae vocalists, and metal vocalists has arguably been responsible for nu-metal in the first place, although thats nothing much to be cheerful about in the first place.... i suppose other factors like the emergent dominance of the sampler as backbone for mainstream pop and rnb's global dominance thereof required rock to reinvent itself to fit in - but im not really talking about nu-metal im talking PROPER metal]

its just that i would have thought that the two musics share enough of their basic sonic vocabulary to make them fairly mutually intelligible, certainly the abundance of heavy metal appreciation threads on various drum and bass forums [ forii? forae? ] would indicate a certain amount of cross-admiration [neologising is fun!]

also if you like vocals the reason most of it is instrumental is because youre meant to have a live vocalist when you play it out to an audience... go and check out one of the bassbin nights down the metropolitan some time and you'll see what im on about...