Drum and bass
Drum and bass is a genre. Defining acts include ATB, Pendulum, Tinie Tempah, Joost Klein and PinkPantheress, and their records are the quickest way into the sound. Drum and bass grew out of electronic dance music, Bass Music, Electronic Music, Global Club Music and Hardcore Breaks. It sits close to bass music (EDM), grime, hard dance, Techno and UK garage, scenes that trade players, venues and ideas with it. Its influence carried into meme techno, jungle, halfstep, minimal drum and bass and deep drum and bass, which took the template somewhere else. The chart currently maps 43 connections around Drum and bass. Open any neighbouring band or genre to trace where Drum and bass came from and where it led.
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Drum and bass connections
Drum and bass grew out of electronic dance music, Bass Music, Electronic Music and Global Club Music, shares an orbit with bass music (EDM), grime, hard dance and Techno, went on to shape meme techno, jungle, halfstep and minimal drum and bass. 43 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
What influenced Drum and bass
Sounds and acts that shaped Drum and bass.
Genres similar to Drum and bass
Artists and scenes sharing an orbit with Drum and bass.
What Drum and bass shaped
Where the influence of Drum and bass travelled next.
- meme technogenre
- junglegenre
- halfstepgenre
- minimal drum and bassgenre
- deep drum and bassgenre
- neurofunkgenre
- techstepgenre
- drumfunkgenre
- sambassgenre
- technoidgenre
- drill and bassgenre
- hardstepgenre
- footwork junglegenre
- jump-upgenre
- trancestepgenre
- darkstepgenre
- liquid drum and bassgenre
- intelligent drum and bassgenre
- drumstepgenre
- industrial drum and bassgenre
- dubwise drum and bassgenre
- halftimegenre
- dancefloor drum and bassgenre
- Drum and bass electronic rockgenre
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