ANDY C: BY THE HORNS
“When you’re drum & bass, you really are — you get it, and there’s nothing else like it. You can’t get assimilated into 4/4, your tempo doesn’t fit in with other genres — it is what it is, and the uniqueness of it is why it’s still around. That’s a big contributing factor in its longevity.”
JURASSIK: DO THE DINOSAUR!
Jurassik, aka Ben Child, first got into dance music in the late '90s via jungle/drum & bass. “Anything with a skippy sampled break, really,” he tells DJ Mag. “I also loved the dark and rugged vibe of the early breakbeat scene around the same time — Fuel Records, Adam Freeland's Marine Parade Records, the legendary Botchit & Scarper.”
BACK TO BREAKS!
Two decades after they first inspired the establishment to try and legislate against dance music, the breakbeats that fuelled jungle and hardcore have found new life at the hands of producers who were in nappies when 'Terminator' was first released. But what’s behind this latest reworking of the dance music archive?
Q&A: MACHINEDRUM
The idea of a footwork concept album might seem at odds with the stuttering functionality of its Chicago roots, but then Machinedrum, aka US-born Travis Stewart, has always used its 170bpm tempo as a template for more otherworldly experiments.
FIRST LISTEN: NEW BLU MAR TEN SINGLE
Liquid drum & bass group Blu Mar Ten return this week with a fresh single on their new label Blu Mar Ten Music.
DANCE TO THE DRUMMER'S BEAT
We decided to talk to the man himself to learn a little bit more about it...
FRENCH CONNECTION
One of the most accomplished female DJs in the game, Elisa Do Brasil made a name for herself as a key figure in the French drum & bass scene
LISTEN: THE MOST IMPORTANT DRUM & BASS TRACKS OF ALL TIME
Junglist posse! The latest in our authoritative series of 'Top 100 Most Important Tunes' moves onto drum & bass in the September issue of DJ Mag (out now), following lists of the most important house and techno tunes.
SUMMER SOUNDTRACKS
When Mr Benn leaves his house at 52 Festive Road, possibly wearing a black suit and bowler hat, he enters his studio via a magic door. But how does he decide which outfit supplied by a shopkeeper he is going to try on today? “It depends what I have planned for the studio that day,”
60 SECONDS WITH...CONGO NATTY
Congo Natty has a rich history of involvement in the music scene for the last 25 years. Formerly known as the Rebel MC, he had chart hits such as 'Just Keep Rockin'' and 'Street Tuff' in the late '80s with the Double Trouble production kru before hankering down into — and helping to pioneer — the early jungle scene.
