Okay, I’m not religious, but I won’t give up a chance to use Drum and Bass to be subtly blasphemous whilst also giving you a free breakbeat! And they say us atheists have no moral compass…
In fact, this is not just a breakbeat. It’s the breakbeat. The most ridiculously overused sample in existence.
There are a lot of different types of Drum and Bass – Dark tracks, Chilled tracks, Poppy tracks… But here I’m focusing on the cool ones. The ones that make your face contort like someone implanted some iron in one of your cheeks and then held a magnet near your head. The ones that make you do that Ali G finger clicky thing when you hear them (Well, if you can do it – I never figured it out).
Here are the top 5 frickin’ cool Drum and Bass Anthems ever…
Without realising it, I grew up on Drum and Bass.
I played a lot of video games and watched a lot of kids TV cartoons. Thanks to the “X-Treme” marketing phenomenon of the late 90s, you could pretty much guarantee that the TV Spot advertising “Super X Power Force” (I wish there was a TV series called that) would contain some pumping drum and bass loops.
However, shockingly enough, Drum and Bass didn’t originate in Dreamcast-based Sonic the Hedgehog games and overzealous advertisements. But where did it originate? Let’s ask some questions…
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