'I Never Thought It Would Be Like This. This Music Scene Is Mad, Theres No
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NO LOOKING BACK By Ebony Mollet ‘I never thought it would be like this. This music scene is mad, theres no going back now.’ he phrase “drum rum and bass began T D and bass” was sometimes as a musical paradigm used in the seventies to shift of the United King- name dub versions of reg- dom breakbeat hardcore gae songs. With titles on and rave scene of the b-sides of 7 inches, like mid 1990s; and over the ‘Drum and bass by King first decade and a half of Tubby’s’. Also you can its existence there have hear the phrase in reggae been many permutations songs from artists like in its style, incorporating Jah Tomas with the often elements from dancehall, sampled phrase ‘strictly electro, funk, hip hop, drum and bass make you house, jazz, pop-created wind up your waist’. fusion of hardcore, house and techno (with a strong However, as the early accent of both the UK in- nineties saw drum and dustrial and Belgian New bass break out from its Beat sounds), pioneered underground roots and by Joey Beltram, L.A. begin to win popularity Style, CJ Bolland, Richie with the general British Hawtin and others. This public, many producers scene existed briefly from attempted to expand the approximately 1989-1993, influences of the music a period of cross-pollina- beyond the domination tion with the UK hard- of ragga-based sounds. core sound. By 1995, a counter move- ment to the ragga style was emerging. Pictured: MC Cook 43 44.