drum'n'bass

British

noun

1. a type of electronic dance music using mainly bass guitar and drum sounds
2. ( as modifier )
  
  a drum'n'bass backing

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Over 45 minutes Lethal Bizzle and Radio 1's Target chatted everything from 90s drum'n'bass, East London, More Fire Crew and meeting the rappers that inspired him.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2024

But it was only when my answer about the distinction between drum'n'bass and jungle went viral that I realised that each question is a little narrative arc.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2024

Depending on who you talk to, On the Corner is either the inspirational motherlode, an album that birthed musical genres from trip-hop to drum’n’bass, or a sprawling mess.

From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2020

Writing on Instagram, she told fans her new album would be "a drum'n'bass record to spite you".

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2019

Bill Laswell, Miles’s posthumous remixer, called 1972’s On the Corner “mutant hip-hop” – others have heard dub, pre-punk, drum’n’bass and more in its oceanic, thick-textured, harmony-purged turmoil of multiple keyboards, overdubs, saxes and percussion.

From The Guardian • Aug. 1, 2019

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