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Drum'n'bass

May 2024

  • ‘I’ve got to make sure that I can knock on doors and knock down doors’ … Becky Hill.

    ‘World domination is a big thing for me’: pop superstar Becky Hill on raving to the top – and her new album’s dark past

    She’s won two Brits and rivalled Dua Lipa and Adele for streams, but the public is still getting to know the ex-reality TV singer. She explains why snobbery has held her back, but trauma won’t

April 2024

  • MC Conrad

    Club culture
    MC Conrad, acclaimed drum’n’bass vocalist, dies aged 52

    Rapper and singer was acclaimed for partnership with producer LTJ Bukem, and went on to become a producer and label head in his own right
  • Nia Archives with union jack tooth and red, white and blue jumper

    Mad fer it! The young musicians flying the flag for Britpop

    Artists from Dua Lipa to Nia Archives are tapping the boisterous energy of mid-90s music – and even embracing the union jack. Can they avoid the genre’s laddish lows?
  • Nia Archives - press handout image 2024

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Nia Archives: Silence Is Loud review – bold, fresh jungle unbound by tradition

    The Bradford producer confidently tethers her breakbeats to a pounding four-to-the-floor kick drum – which would have been unheard of in the 90s – on a pop-facing, innovative record

February 2024

  • ‘It’s like I’m the people’s champ’ … Flowdan.

    Club culture
    ‘I am the ultimate UK vocalist!’ Flowdan, the first British MC to win a Grammy

    He helped create grime and his baritone growl causes frenzies on the dancefloor. Now that the MC is finally getting his dues, what are his plans? To conquer America – and create more mayhem

January 2024

  • Amol Rajan in a. suit standing in front of a colourful set in blue tones, with two dfour-person desks side by side showing the names of two universities

    ‘We need jungle, I’m afraid’: how University Challenge went viral on the rave scene

    A quote from Amol Rajan, host of the highbrow British quiz has inspired a stream of samples in tracks – and invitations for him to perform live

November 2023

  • Not subtle … Chase and Status.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Chase and Status: 2Ruff Vol 1 review – resurgent drum’n’bass duo rev a little too hard

    These collaborations with next-gen producers and vocalists are dominating the charts and have rowdy charm, but as a full record they leave you gasping for air

August 2023

  • Bambii the Toronto DJ/producer looking confident, in shorts and top, in a black and white photo

    Bambii: Infinity Club review – mischievous, flirty global electronica

    The Toronto producer/DJ’s fleet-footed debut mini-album, featuring guest spots from the UK’s finest dancefloor talent, is an impressive calling card

March 2023

  • Nia Archives

    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

February 2023

  • Chill out zone: the Snowboxx music festival.

    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

October 2022

  • Unrelatable … Purple Beatz

    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

August 2022

  • Wu-Lu

    ‘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

July 2022

  • Grace Dent Goldie comfort eating podcast

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S3 E9: Goldie, music producer and DJ

    The legendary drum’n’bass DJ Goldie has flown into London for summer performance dates, but first he stops by Grace’s living room. They discuss growing up in care, letting rave life get on top of you, and his new life with his wife and child in Thailand. And, as always, the comfort foods that have seen him through it all

June 2022

  • Ben (left) and Max Ringham.

    ‘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

May 2022

  • ‘I think the limitations back then made you more creative. It wasn’t the sound why I used the Amiga, it was all I could afford…’

    ‘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

April 2022

  • Nia Archives.

    ‘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?

February 2022

  • ‘Skibadee was your favourite MC’s favourite MC’s favourite MC’ … performing at the South West Four festival in 2019.

    Skibadee changed the very nature of what it meant to be an MC in the UK

    Joe Muggs
  • Skibadee

    Skibadee, jungle and drum’n’bass MC, dies aged 47

November 2021

  • George Evelyn of Nightmares on Wax.

    ‘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?

September 2021

  • Illo by Bratislav Milenkovic

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archives: Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in – podcast

    This week, from 2017: The world is changing at dizzying speed – but for some thinkers, not fast enough. Is accelerationism a dangerous idea or does it speak to our troubled times?
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