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spaceAlien9

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[font=aktiv-grotesk, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The Nine" is arguably the greatest drum and bass tune of all time. It’s hard to believe it’s been over 17 years since it was released and somehow it still manages to sound as fresh now as it did then. An instantly recognisable timeless piece of drum and bass history. [/font][font=aktiv-grotesk, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The Nine wasn’t even a main track when it was first released. The way it works from the first 16 drop into the second, the bit when the hi-hats come in just after that big reece chase, it’s so simplistic but it captured something that wasn’t around at the time. Sometimes a tune embraces the essence of what is there already; it broke it down for everybody. As soon as people like Andy C mixed it from that reece, it just got taken in the wind. It’s just a wicked a DJ tool really.[/font]
[font=aktiv-grotesk, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The track was written in a day by Fresh and Maldini using an EMU 16400 Ultra sampler and a really old version of Cubase[/font]

 
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spaceAlien9

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Did you know D&B has been around for 40 years now? Seriously. I know this because I am ancient and used to listen to it on alternative radio back in the 1970's. It was strictly drum and bass back then and was even called "Drum and Bass". And the beats were not unlike today's D&B. It was to morph into breakbeat which was an underground music that originated in the USA in the late 1970s. The combination of house from one side and breakbeat from the other side led to production of what is now called drum & bass.

 
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spaceAlien9

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Shadow boxing was released back in 1996 by Nasty Habits aka 31 Records owner Doc Scott. The dark and heavy signature bassline is supported with a classic rough 2-step beat which once heard, never escapes your mind. Shadow Boxing was supposedly produced and finished in one night of recording!

Here's a remix by Om Unit of Doc Scott's classic 'Shadow Boxing':
 
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spaceAlien9

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Bad Company (UK) "Inside the machine" album is some of the tightest and darkest techstep that has ever been put to wax. This album took the scene by storm and launched the biggest drum & bass group of all time. Every tune on this album is a stormer full of dark atmospherics and deep bass.

Nitrous - a monster of a tune with a dark reece bassline and storming tramen breaks.
 
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spaceAlien9

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World dance was one of the best raves during the 90’s with massive sound systems pounding out Jungle Drum & Bass combined with elaborate lighting and themes. Easily the best atmosphere and production of any large rave. But honestly IMO, the best rave scene was in the desert areas of SoCal. These raves were much smaller, only 200-300 people with D&B blasting for 72 hours non-stop. Three solid days of drum and bass in the surreal desert environment with a bunch of zonked-out freaks can be an incredibly profound psychologically transformational experience. There simply is no comparison with the larger raves, it is something on a completely different level.

 
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spaceAlien9

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As drum and bass started to go mainstream in the 90's, a swarm of profit-seeking opportunists descended upon the scene. Wave after wave of copy-and-paste artists started producing tracks with atrociously bad audio effects and nonsensical beats. Much of the d&b produced was unsuitable for radio. As meth began to make more inroads displacing MDMA/psychedelics, hostilities increased and everything just turned plain ugly. The original group of core artists could only stand by and watch in horror as the scene they created transfigured itself into a frankenstein monster leaving behind a path of mayhem and chaos. When the women abandoned the scene and moved on to styles like garage for example, it was game over - at least for the time being. So, the group of highly dedicated core d&b artists returned to the underground and created a fresh batch of new sub-genres.

"You Didn't See It, Did You?" by Seba & Paradox a pioneer of the drumfunk genre:
 
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