Why is Drum and Bass so frickin’ awesome?
On the surface, you would be excused for thinking of Drum and Bass as an irritating, repetitive noise you get while you’re at the gym. Using the same beat for pretty much every song sounds like a recipe for boredom. But it’s not. The percussion drives everything so well – when the music around it is interesting, your attention isn’t on the repetitive beat, it’s on the energetic song. It’s like most genres – chances are if you hear a DnB song and you don’t like it, you’ve just found a crap DnB song. There are some ridiculously cool tracks out there. Like this one – one of my favourite Drum and Bass songs, “Blood Sugar” by Pendulum: Drum and Bass was designed for raves – and that will always be the best place to experience the genre; it’s very much a live experience, much like other rave music. Maybe more so since the basslines are generally so low that most home speakers can’t accurately reproduce them. Where can I get it? I’d suggest some of these Drum and Bass CDs: “Hold your Colour”
