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72-460: New Forms is the debut studio album by British drum and bass group Roni Size & Reprazent . It was released on 23 June 1997 through Talkin' Loud , and later re-released by Mercury Records and Universal Music Group . The album was released to critical and commercial success, winning the 1997 Mercury Prize , certifying platinum in the UK, and often being cited as their magnum opus . New Forms

144-408: A "rising zoomer affinity" for the genre in the 2020s. Purple Sneakers described a "drum n' bass Renaissance" occurring at the time of the publication of their articles in 2023. Drum and bass incorporates a number of scenes and styles, from the highly electronic, industrial sounds of techstep to the use of conventional, acoustic instrumentation that characterise the more jazz-influenced end of

216-422: A break and use this technique. A break beat is the sampling of breaks as ( drum loop ) beats, (originally found in soul or funk tracks) and their subsequent use as the rhythmic basis for hip hop and rap . It was invented by DJ Kool Herc , a Jamaican who emigrated to New York. He is usually credited with being a pioneer of the technique of using two copies of one record so as to be able to mix between

288-545: A break is where all the elements of a song (e.g., synth pads , basslines , vocals), except for percussion, disappear; as such, the break is also called a "percussion break". This is distinguished from a breakdown , a section where the composition is deliberately deconstructed to minimal elements (usually the percussion or rhythm section with the vocal re-introduced over the minimal backing), all other parts having been gradually or suddenly cut out. The distinction between breaks and breakdowns may be described as, "Breaks are for

360-410: A broad style classification itself called breakbeat . Hip-hop break beat compilations include Hardcore Break Beats and Break Beats , and Drum Drops . It was during the break beats of the song that break dancers and b-boys and girls would become the focus of attention and demonstrate their personal flair. DJ Kool Herc inspired local dancers to dance on the break beats, creating new sounds by combining

432-498: A club music genre from Detroit, contains synth and basslines similar to drum and bass. Drum and bass is dominated by a small group of record labels. These are mainly run by DJ-producers, such as London Elektricity 's Hospital Records , Andy C and Scott Bourne's RAM , Goldie 's Metalheadz , Fabio and Sarah Sandy's Creative Source Records, DJ Dextrous 's King of the Jungle Records, Subversive Recordings and State of

504-641: A computer, a variety of tracks for personal listening. Additionally, there are many albums containing unmixed tracks, suited for home or car listening. Although this practice has declined in popularity, DJs are often accompanied by one or more MCs , drawing on the genre's roots in hip hop and reggae / ragga . MCs do not generally receive the same level of recognition as producer/DJs, and some events are specifically marketed as being MC-free. There are relatively few well-known drum and bass MCs, mainly based in London and Bristol, including Stevie Hyper D (deceased),

576-439: A drum and bass-influenced breakbeat track. Many mixing points begin or end with a " drop ". The drop is the point in a track where a switch of rhythm or bassline occurs and usually follows a recognisable build section and breakdown . Sometimes, the drop is used to switch between tracks, layering components of different tracks, as the two records may be simply ambient breakdowns at this point. Some DJs prefer to combine breakbeats,

648-511: A drum solo that has since become known as the " Amen break ", which, after being extensively used in early hip hop music, went on to become the basis for the rhythms used in drum and bass. Kevin Saunderson released a series of bass-heavy, minimal techno cuts as Reese/The Reese Project in the late '80s, which were hugely influential in drum and bass. One of his more famous basslines (Reese – "Just Want Another Chance", Incognito Records, 1988)

720-412: A hard-hitting emotional impact, with the drums complementing the bass to deliver a pulsating, powerful experience. Consequently, drum and bass parties are often advertised as featuring uncommonly loud and bass-heavy sound systems. There are however many albums specifically designed for personal listening. The DJ mix is a particularly popular form of release, with a popular DJ or producer mixing live, or on

792-400: A high-tempo 4/4 dance track could be classified as techno or gabber . The complex syncopation of the drum tracks' breakbeat is another facet of production on which producers can spend a very large amount of time. The Amen break is generally acknowledged to have been the most-used (and often considered the most powerful) break in drum and bass. The genre places great importance on

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864-411: A liquidator. This left many labels short on sales, as Nu Urban were one of the main distributors for the vinyl market in the drum and bass scene. Despite its roots in the UK, which is still treated as the "home" of drum and bass, the style has firmly established itself around the world. There are strong scenes in other English-speaking countries including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and

936-532: A long-standing drum and bass show on Radio 1. Radio 1 also had the One in the Jungle show. The BBC's Black music station BBC Radio 1Xtra used to feature the genre heavily, with DJ Bailey (show axed as of 29 August 2012) and Crissy Criss (show axed as of August 2014) as its advocates. The network also organises a week-long tour of the UK each year called Xtra Bass . London pirate radio stations have been instrumental in

1008-465: A more difficult exercise. Some drops are so popular that the DJ will "rewind" or "reload" or "lift up" the record by spinning it back and restarting it at the build. The drop is often a key point from the point of view of the dance floor, since the drum breaks often fade out to leave an ambient intro playing. When the beats re-commence they are often more complex and accompanied by a heavier bassline, encouraging

1080-424: A record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records. The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and wait for the jock to put the needle back on." DJ Kool Herc's innovative use of the break-beat came about through his observations of dancers and desire to give them what they wanted. In this case

1152-593: A soloist for a brief period, usually two or four bars leading into the soloist's first improvised solo chorus (at which point the rhythm section resumes playing). A notable recorded example is sax player Charlie Parker 's solo break at the beginning of his solo on " A Night in Tunisia ". While the solo break is a break for the rhythm section, for the soloist, it is a solo cadenza , where they are expected to improvise an interesting and engaging melodic line. In DJ parlance, in disco , hip hop and electronic dance music ,

1224-628: A very important influence on drum and bass). Darkcore , a direct influence on drum and bass, was combined with influences of drum and bass itself leading to the creation of darkstep . There is considerable crossover from the extreme edges of drum and bass, breakcore, darkcore, digital hardcore and raggacore with fluid boundaries. Intelligent dance music (IDM) is a form of art music based on DnB and other electronic dance musics, exploring their boundaries using ideas from science, technology, contemporary classical music and progressive rock, often creating un-danceable, art gallery style music. Ghettotech ,

1296-590: A wave of new artists (Carlito & Addiction, Solid State/ DJ Dextrous , Subject 13 and Fellowship being amongst the early pioneers to champion the sound) incorporating new ideas and techniques, supporting continual evolution of the genre. As of 2014, drum and bass makes frequent appearances in mainstream media and popular culture including in television , as well as being a major reference point for subsequent genres such as grime and dubstep , and producing successful artists including Chase & Status , Netsky , Metrik , and Pendulum . In 2021, Pitchfork noted

1368-406: Is thought of as a break by a producer. In the words of DJ Jazzy Jay : "Maybe those records [whose breaks are sampled] were ahead of their time. Maybe they were made specifically for the rap era; these people didn't know what they were making at that time. They thought, 'Oh, we want to make a jazz record ' ". Like the song Stereo World By Feeder and Upon This Rock by Newsboys are example that have

1440-400: Is More", "Don't Hold Back" and "Encore", while omitting several of the songs from the original album. New Forms was released to favourable reviews. AllMusic described the album as "the major statement on drum'n'bass", rating it five stars out of five, while in 2010 BBC Music noted that it "carved a mainstream niche for drum and bass like no album before it". Entertainment Weekly noted

1512-484: Is a genre of electronic dance music characterised by fast breakbeats (typically 165–185 beats per minute ) with heavy bass and sub-bass lines, samples , and synthesizers . The genre grew out of the UK's jungle scene in the 1990s. The popularity of drum and bass at its commercial peak ran parallel to several other UK dance styles. A major influence was the original Jamaican dub and reggae sound that influenced jungle 's bass-heavy sound. Another feature of

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1584-476: Is dominated by a relatively small group of record labels. Major international music labels had shown very little interest in the drum and bass scene until BMG Rights Management acquired RAM in February 2016. Since then, the genre has seen a significant growth in exposure. Whilst the origin of drum and bass music is in the UK, the genre has evolved considerably with many other prominent fanbases located all over

1656-535: Is electric, acoustic or a double bass , are less common. Atmospheric pads and samples may be added over the fundamental drum and bass to provide different feels. These have included "light" elements such as ambient pads as found in ambient electronica and samples of jazz and world musics, or "dark" elements such as dissonant pads and sci-fi samples to induce anxiety in the dancer. Old-school DnB usually included an MC providing vocals. Some styles (such as jazz-influenced DnB) also include melodic instruments soloing over

1728-478: Is the "Tramen", which combines the Amen break , a James Brown funk breakbeat (" Tighten Up " or "Samurai" break) and an Alex Reece drum and bass breakbeat. The relatively fast drum beat forms a canvas on which a producer can create tracks to appeal to almost any taste and often will form only a background to the other elements of the music. Syncopated breakbeats remain the most distinctive element as without these

1800-592: The Atari ST to create their tracks. Of equal importance is the TR-808 kick drum, an artificially down-pitched or elongated bass drum sound sampled from Roland 's classic TR-808 drum machine, and a sound which has been subject to an enormous amount of experimentation over the years. Many drum and bass tracks have featured more than one sampled breakbeat in them and a technique of switching between two breaks after each bar developed. A more recent commonly used break

1872-579: The Ragga Twins , Dynamite MC , MC Skibadee (deceased) and MC Tali . Many musicians have adapted drum and bass to live performances, which feature instruments such as drums (acoustic or electronic), samplers , synthesizers , turntables , bass (either upright or electric) and guitars (acoustic or electric). Samplers have also been used live by assigning samples to a specific drum pad or key on drum pads or synthesizers. MCs are frequently featured in live performances. Smaller scenes within

1944-399: The back-up played on the banjo for a mandolin 'break' may differ from that played for a dobro 'break' in the same song". According to David Toop , "the word break or breaking is a music and dance term, as well as a proverb, that goes back a long way. Some tunes, like 'Buck Dancer's Lament' from early in the nineteenth century, featured a two-bar silence in every eight bars for

2016-421: The bassline , in this case a deep sub-bass musical pattern which can be felt physically through powerful sound systems due to the low-range frequencies favoured. There has been considerable exploration of different timbres in the bass line region, particularly within techstep . The bass lines most notably originate from sampled sources or synthesizers . Bass lines performed with a bass instrument, whether it

2088-411: The electronic dance music scene perhaps lessened following the shifts from jungle to drum and bass, and through to so-called "intelligent drum and bass" and techstep. It still remains a fusion music style. Some tracks are illegally remixed and released on white label (technically bootleg), often to acclaim. For example, DJ Zinc 's remix of Fugees ' " Ready or Not ", also known as "Fugee Or Not",

2160-415: The 170–180 range. Recently, some producers have started to once again produce tracks with slower tempos (that is, in the 150-170 bpm range), but the mid-170s tempo is still a hallmark of the drum and bass sound. A track combining the same elements (broken beat, bass, production techniques) as a drum and bass track, but with a slower tempo (say 140 BPM), might not be drum and bass, but instead may qualify as

2232-494: The Art Recordings, Kasra's Critical Music , DJ Friction 's Shogun Audio, DJ Fresh 's Breakbeat Kaos , Ed Rush & Optical 's Virus Recordings, Futurebound 's Viper Recordings and DJ Hype , Pascal, NoCopyrightSounds and formerly DJ Zinc 's True Playaz (known as Real Playaz as of 2006). Prior to 2016, the major international music labels such as Sony Music and Universal had shown very little interest in

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2304-520: The United States. Today, drum and bass is widely promoted using different methods such as video sharing services like YouTube and Dailymotion , blogs , radio , and television , the latter being the most uncommon method. More recently, music networking websites such as SoundCloud and Mixcloud have become powerful tools for artist recognition, providing a vast platform that enables quick responses to new tracks. Record labels have adopted

2376-529: The album's "caffeinated drum beat and blissful bass reverb". Pitchfork ' s Ryan Schreiber was less generous, commenting that the album "doesn't really get decent until the second half of disc one". The original CD release contains both discs, though a single disc version containing only disc 1 was additionally released in the UK. Adapted from the liner notes. Sales figures based on certification alone. Drum and bass Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated as DnB , D&B , or D'n'B )

2448-407: The boundaries of drum and bass further into the mainstream with artists such as Chase and Status and Sub Focus . Now defunct labels include Rob Playford 's Moving Shadow , running from 1990 until 2007, which played a pivotal role in the nineties drum and bass scene, releasing records by artists such as Omni Trio . Originally drum and bass was mostly sold in 12-inch vinyl single format. With

2520-489: The break—a quick showcase of improvised dance steps. Others used the same device for a solo instrumental break; a well-known example being the four-bar break taken by Charlie Parker in Dizzy Gillespie 's tune ' Night in Tunisia '." However, in hip hop today, the term break refers to any segment of music (usually four measures or less) that could be sampled and repeated. A break is any expanse of music that

2592-534: The crowd to begin dancing. Drum and bass exhibits a full frequency response which can sometimes only be fully appreciated on sound systems which can handle very low frequencies, including sub-bass frequencies that are often felt more than heard. As befits its name, the bass element of the music is particularly pronounced, with the comparatively sparse arrangements of drum and bass tracks allowing room for basslines that are deeper than most other forms of dance music. Drum and bass tracks are meticulously designed to create

2664-467: The development of drum and bass, with stations such as Kool FM (which continues to broadcast today having done so since 1991), Origin FM, Don FM (the only drum and bass pirate to have gained a temporary legal licence), Renegade Radio 107.2FM, Rude FM, Wax FM and Eruption among the most influential. As of 2014, despite higher profile stations such as 1Xtra scaling back their drum and bass specialist coverage,

2736-497: The disco records which emerged out of the influence of this type of mixing tended to feature long introductions, anthemic choruses and extended vamp sections, all creating a tension which was released by the break. Break-beat music simply ate the cherry off the top of the cake and threw the rest away. In the words of DJ Grandmaster Flash, "Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play

2808-430: The drum and bass community have developed and the scene as a whole has become much more fractured into specific subgenres, which have been grouped into "light" (influenced by ambient , jazz , and world music ) and "heavy" (influenced by industrial music , sci-fi , and anxiety ) styles, including: Born around the same time as jungle, breakcore and digital hardcore share many of the elements of drum and bass and to

2880-573: The drum and bass scene, with the exception of some notable signings, including Pendulum 's In Silico LP to Warner. Roni Size's label played a big, if not the biggest, part in the creation of drum and bass with their dark, baseline sounds. V Recordings also played a large part of the development of drum and bass. BMG Rights Management acquired Ram Records in February 2016, making a strategic investment to help RAM Records (a London-based drum and bass record company co-owned by Andy C and his business partner Scott Bourne). RAM Records has been pushing

2952-490: The drummer; breakdowns are for electronic producers". In hip hop music and electronica, a short break is also known as a "cut", and the reintroduction of the full bass line and drums is known as a " drop ", which is sometimes accented by cutting off everything, even the percussion right before the full music is dropped back in. Old-school hip-hop DJs have described the relationship between breaks, early hip-hop music, and disco . According to Afrika Bambaataa : Now he took

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3024-651: The emergence of drum and bass into mainstream music markets, more albums, compilations and DJ mixes started to be sold on CDs. As digital music became more popular, websites focused on electronic music, such as Beatport , began to sell drum and bass in digital format. The bulk of drum and bass vinyl records and CDs are distributed globally and regionally by a relatively small number of companies such as SRD (Southern Record Distributors), ST Holdings, & Nu Urban Music Limited. As of 11 September 2012, Nu Urban ceased trading and RSM Tenon were instructed to assist in convening statutory meetings of members and creditors to appoint

3096-488: The ensuing years of the genre's development. A very obvious and strong influence on jungle and drum and bass, thanks to the British African-Caribbean sound system scene, is the original Jamaican dub and reggae sound, with pioneers like King Tubby , Peter Tosh , Sly & Robbie , Bill Laswell , Lee Perry , Mad Professor , Roots Radics , Bob Marley and Buju Banton heavily influencing

3168-557: The first CD; the 5×LP set includes tracks from the second CD, replacing "Intro" with "Heroes" and "Digital", which are appended to the end. In the US, only the 2CD version was released, which contained the bonus track "Electricks". A remake of the original album, New Forms² , was released in April 2008. Roni Size has described it as having a "new coat of armour added to the original tracks". The album contains four new songs: "Heart to Heart", "Less

3240-706: The former three of which were featured on the album. On 19 May 1997, the album's lead single was released, "Share the Fall", which reached number 37 in the UK singles chart in June that year. The album was released on 23 June 1997 and charted on the UK Albums Chart for 46 weeks, peaking at number 8. Following the album, three singles were released "Heroes", "Brown Paper Bag" and "Watching Windows", all charting at positions 31, 20 and 28 respectively, with "Brown Paper Bag" remaining

3312-495: The gang culture that had affected the UK's hip-hop scene and as a consequence of jungle's often aggressive or menacing sound and themes of violence (usually reflected in the choice of samples). However, this developed in tandem with the often positive reputation of the music as part of the wider rave scene and dancehall-based Jamaican music culture prevalent in London. By 1995, whether as a reaction to, or independently of this cultural schism, some jungle producers began to move away from

3384-542: The genre has made its way into UK top 10 charts with drum and bass inspired tracks from artists such as Rudimental and Sigma. Earlier in August 2014, before Crissy Criss' show was axed, the BBC held a whole prime time evening event dedicated to showcasing drum and bass by allowing four major labels to participate. Break (music) A solo break in jazz occurs when the rhythm section (piano, bass, drums) stops playing behind

3456-478: The group's highest-charting single. The album was released in various formats, all with differing track lists. The original album release was a two disc CD, though single disc editions only containing disc one were later released. The cassette version comprised the first disc of the CD. Two vinyl versions were released, a 5x and 4x LP. Of the two vinyl versions, the most common pressing is the 4LP version comprising most of

3528-517: The heavier sampling and "hardcore noises" and create more bassline and breakbeat led tracks. Some tracks increasingly took their influence from reggae and this style would become known as hardcore jungle (later to become simply jungle ), whilst darkcore (with producers such as Goldie , Doc Scott , 4hero , and 2 Bad Mice ) were experimenting with sounds and creating a blueprint for drum and bass, especially noticeable by late 1993. By 1994, jungle had begun to gain mainstream popularity, and fans of

3600-490: The music (often referred to as junglists ) became a more recognisable part of youth subculture. The genre further developed, incorporating and fusing elements from a wide range of existing musical genres, including the raggamuffin sound, dancehall , MC chants, dub basslines, and increasingly complex, heavily edited breakbeat percussion. Despite the affiliation with the ecstasy -fuelled rave scene, jungle also inherited associations with violence and criminal activity, both from

3672-633: The music of like Mandrill, like "Fencewalk", certain disco records that had funky percussion breaks like the Incredible Bongo Band when they came out with "Apache" and he just kept that beat going . It might be that certain part of the record that everybody waits for—they just let their inner self go and get wild. The next thing you know the singer comes back in and you'd be mad. Musicologist David Toop , based on interviews with DJ Grandmaster Flash , Kool DJ Herc , and others, has written: Break-beat music and hip-hop culture were happening at

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3744-439: The music. Jazz pioneer Miles Davis has been named as a possible influence. Blues artists such as Lead Belly , Robert Johnson , Charlie Patton , Muddy Waters and B. B. King have also been cited by producers as inspirations. Even modern avant-garde composers such as Henryk Gorecki have received mention. One of the most influential tracks in drum and bass history was "Amen Brother" by The Winstons , which contains

3816-473: The music. Drum and bass is usually between 160 and 180 BPM, in contrast to other breakbeat -based dance styles such as nu skool breaks , which maintain a slower pace at around 130–140 BPM. A general upward trend in tempo has been observed during the evolution of drum and bass. The earliest forms of drum and bass clocked in at around 130 bpm in 1990/1991, speeding up to around 155–165 BPM by 1993. Since around 1996, drum and bass tempos have predominantly stayed in

3888-668: The music. This influence has lessened with time, but is still evident, with many tracks containing ragga vocals. As a musical style built around funk or syncopated rock and roll breaks , James Brown , Al Green , Marvin Gaye , Ella Fitzgerald , Gladys Knight & the Pips , Billie Holiday , Aretha Franklin , Otis Redding , the Supremes , the Commodores , Jerry Lee Lewis , and even Michael Jackson acted as funk influences on

3960-453: The newly emerging sound. DJs at the Heaven nightclub on "Rage" nights used to play it as fast as their Technics record decks would go, pitching it up in the process. By the late 1980s and early 1990s, the tradition of breakbeat use in hip hop production had influenced the sound of breakbeat hardcore , which in turn led to the emergence of jungle, drum and bass, and other genres that shared

4032-417: The ragga-influenced style and create what would become collectively labelled, for convenience, as drum and bass. As the genre became generally more polished and sophisticated technically, it began to expand its reach from pirate radio to commercial stations and gain widespread acceptance (circa 1995–1997). It also began to split into recognisable subgenres such as hardstep , jump up, ragga, techstep, and what

4104-420: The same break, or, as Bronx DJ Afrika Bambaataa describes, "that certain part of the record that everybody waits for—they just let their inner self go and get wild", extending its length through repetition. However, it is likely that there were a number of like-minded DJs developing the technique at the same time; for example, Walter Gibbons was noted in first-hand accounts by his peers for cutting two copies of

4176-513: The same record in his discothèque gigs of the mid-1970s. A particularly innovative style of street dance was created to accompany break beat-based music, and was hence referred to as "The Break", or breaking . In the 1980s, charismatic dancers like Crazy Legs , Frosty Freeze , and the Rock Steady Crew revived the breaking movement. More recently, electronic artists have created "break beats" from other electronic music, resulting in

4248-471: The same time as the emergence of disco (in 1974 known as party music ). Disco was also created by DJs in its initial phase, though these tended to be club jocks rather than mobile party jocks – records by Barry White, Eddie Kendricks and others became dancefloor hits in New York clubs like Tamberlane and Sanctuary and were crossed over onto radio by Frankie Crocker at station WBLS. There were many parallels in

4320-586: The same use of broken beats. Drum and bass shares many musical characteristics with hip-hop, though it is nowadays mostly stripped of lyrics. Grandmaster Flash , Roger Troutman , Afrika Bambaata , Run DMC , Mac Dre , Public Enemy , Schooly D , N.W.A , Kid Frost , Wu-Tang Clan , Dr. Dre , Mos Def , Beastie Boys and the Pharcyde are very often directly sampled, regardless of their general influence. Clearly, drum and bass has been influenced by other music genres, though influences from sources external to

4392-401: The spectrum. The sounds of drum and bass are extremely varied due to the range of influences behind the music. Drum and bass could at one time be defined as a strictly electronic musical genre, with the only "live" element being the DJ's selection and mixing of records during a set. "Live" drum and bass using electric, electronic and acoustic instruments played by musicians on stage emerged over

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4464-509: The style is the complex syncopation of the drum tracks' breakbeat . Drum and bass subgenres include breakcore , ragga jungle , hardstep , darkstep , techstep , neurofunk , ambient drum and bass, liquid funk (also known as liquid drum and bass), jump up, drumfunk, sambass , and drill 'n' bass . Drum and bass has influenced other genres such as big beat , dubstep , trip hop and has been influenced by hip hop , house , ambient music , techno , jazz , rock and pop . Drum and bass

4536-417: The techniques used by Kool DJ Herc and a pioneering disco DJ like Francis Grasso, who worked at Sanctuary, as they used similar mixtures and superimpositions of drumbeats, rock music, funk and African records For less creative disco DJs, however, the ideal was to slip-cute smoothly from the end of one record into the beginning of the next. They also created a context for breaks rather than foregrounding them, and

4608-462: The uninitiated, tracks from the extreme end of drum and bass may sound identical to breakcore thanks to speed, complexity, impact and maximum sonic density combined with musical experimentation. German drum and bass DJ The Panacea is also one of the leading digital hardcore artists. Raggacore resembles a faster version of the ragga-influenced jungle music of the 1990s, similar to breakcore but with more friendly dancehall beats (dancehall itself being

4680-433: The use of podcasts . Prior to the rise of the internet, drum and bass was commonly broadcast over pirate radio . The three highest-profile radio stations playing drum and bass shows are BBC Radio 1 with The Drum and Bass Show – formerly with Friction , who was replaced with René LaVice in 2017, simulcast in the US and Canada on Sirius XM, and DJ Hype on Kiss 100 in London. Fabio and Grooverider previously held

4752-420: The way through a song. According to Peter van der Merwe a break "occurs when the voice stops at the end of a phrase and is answered by a snatch of accompaniment", and originated from the bass runs of marches of the " Sousa school ". In this case it would be a "break" from the vocal part. In bluegrass and other old-time music , a break is "when an instrument plays the melody to a song idiomatically , i.e.

4824-425: The who was b-boys (otherwise known as break-boys or breakdancers) and what they wanted was an opportunity to move explosively, express themselves, and peacock to women (Brester and Broughton 167). A break may be described as when the song takes a "breather, drops down to some exciting percussion, and then comes storming back again" and compared to a false ending . Breaks usually occur two-thirds to three-quarters of

4896-502: The world. 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. From as early as 1991, tracks were beginning to strip away some of

4968-654: Was eventually released with the Fugees' permission after talk of legal action, though ironically, the Fugees' version infringed Enya 's copyright to an earlier song. White labels, along with dubplates , played an important part in drum and bass musical culture. The Amen break was synonymous with early drum and bass productions but other samples have had a significant impact, including the Apache , Funky Drummer , "Soul Pride", "Scorpio" and " Think (About It) " breaks. Early pioneers often used Akai samplers and sequencers on

5040-454: Was indeed sampled on Renegade's Terrorist and countless others since, being known simply as the 'Reese' bassline. He followed these up with equally influential (and bassline-heavy) tracks in the UK hardcore style as Tronik House in 1991–1992. Another Detroit artist who was important to the scene was Carl Craig . The sampled-up jazz break on Craig's Bug in the Bassbin was also influential on

5112-399: Was known at the time as intelligent. As more melodic and often jazz-influenced subgenres of drum and bass called atmospheric or intelligent ( Blame and Blu Mar Ten ) and jazzstep ( 4Hero , Roni Size ) gained mainstream appeal, additional subgenres emerged including techstep in 1996, drawing influence from techno . The emergence of related styles such as liquid funk in the 2000s brought

5184-418: Was promoted by the release of its four singles, "Share the Fall", "Heroes", "Brown Paper Bag" and "Watching Windows", all of which entered the UK singles chart and featured vocals from Onallee . The album features production credits from Roni Size , Krust , DJ Die and Suv. New Forms was preceded by a 1996 EP named Reasons for Sharing containing "Share the Fall", "Down", "Trust Me", and "Sounds Fresh",

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