Drum'n'bass
Nia Archives: Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against tha Wall review – carnival meets drum’n’bass
Carnival, jazz and lo-fi introspection jostle nicely as the acclaimed Yorkshire-born junglist continues to shake things up
Kitty Empire
12, Mar, 2023 @9:00 AM
Music with altitude: France’s Snowboxx festival
Not only is Avoriaz part of one of the world’s largest ski areas, it also hosts a banging week-long music festival, so you can ski in and boogie out
Genevieve Fox
19, Feb, 2023 @7:00 AM
Purple Beatz review – 90s drum’n’bass London gets the Hollyoaks treatment
The ‘z’ in the title was a warning, the script the clincher – this wannabe gritty tale of 90s London is like a CBBC show with swearing
Sammy Gecsoyler
17, Oct, 2022 @12:00 PM
‘Maybe we’ll become a genre’: Wu-Lu, the punky lo-fi hip-hop star moving fast to transcend labels
With his rasping vocals and pick-and-mix sound, south Londoner Miles Romans-Hopcraft, AKA Wu-Lu, is causing a stir. He discusses his family pride, skatepark education, and resourceful approach to getting his music out there
Ammar Kalia
16, Aug, 2022 @7:00 AM
‘Why can’t we do it?’: the Ringham brothers’ daring sound designs
Having settled the ‘sound wars’ of their childhood, Ben and Max Ringham reveal how they went from drum’n’bass maestros to prolific theatrical duo
Arifa Akbar
28, Jun, 2022 @11:20 AM
‘It was the poor man’s studio’: how Amiga computers reprogrammed modern music
It was grey, ugly and had 0.0128% of an iPhone’s memory. But the Amiga 500 defied its limitations to power a series of astonishing dance tracks, from early jungle to Calvin Harris
Tamlin Magee
02, May, 2022 @10:20 AM
‘It’s just good energy!’ How TikTok and Covid made drum’n’bass hot again
The 90s genre is being freshened up by young, often female artists mixing hyper-fast breakbeats with soft vocals. But why is it so suited to our post-lockdown, attention-deficient era?
Alexis Petridis
22, Apr, 2022 @7:00 AM
Skibadee changed the very nature of what it meant to be an MC or rapper in the UK | Joe Muggs
The MC, who has died aged 47, laid the foundations for grime, drill and all that followed – there is not a UK rapper today that doesn’t owe him a creative debt
Joe Muggs
28, Feb, 2022 @6:16 PM
Skibadee, jungle and drum’n’bass MC, dies aged 47
Tributes pour in from music world after death of award-winning London-born artist
Nadeem Badshah
27, Feb, 2022 @8:05 PM
‘Music dug up from under the earth’: how trip-hop never stopped
Fused from jungle, rave and soul, trip-hop filled the coffee tables of the 90s, and is now inspiring Billie Eilish’s generation. So why is the term so despised by many?
Joe Muggs
11, Nov, 2021 @3:00 PM
Rudimental: Ground Control review – the energy of a thousand leavers’ balls
The drum’n’bass foursome blast their way out of lockdown with a kinetic sound-system joyride
Kate Hutchinson
05, Sep, 2021 @12:00 PM
Junglist by Two Fingas and James T Kirk review – when jungle was massive
A stream-of-consciousness novel capturing the 1990s jungle music scene over one weekend marks a defining moment in British multiculturalism
Ashish Ghadiali
09, Aug, 2021 @6:00 AM
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