Liquid / Atmospheric
Liquid Funk
Liquid funk, also called liquid drum & bass or just "liquid", is the melodic, vocal-friendly strand of drum & bass, the side of the music where heads…
188 artists · 7,531 releases · 737 mixs · 586 raves
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D&B Subgenres27
From liquid and rollers to jungle, jump-up and neurofunk. Every sound, with the artists, releases, mixes and raves behind it.
The umbrella
Drum & Bass
Fast breakbeats, heavy sub-bass and a culture built on sound systems, MCs and dubplates. Born in UK rave in the early 90s, now rolling on every continent.
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The sounds inside the sound
Liquid / Atmospheric
Soulful
Drum & bass with a pronounced soul / R&B / jazz character in its harmony, arrangement and bass. Not a synonym of Liquid Funk: vocals are not required…
44 artists · 1,451 releases · 32 mixs · 143 raves
Liquid / Atmospheric
Deep
Ask five heads what "deep" means and you will get five answers, and none of them will be wrong. On this site the tag covers drum & bass that sits low…
68 artists · 2,883 releases · 262 mixs · 176 raves
Liquid / Atmospheric
Atmospheric
Not every tune in the rave wanted to take your head off. Atmospheric drum & bass is the melodic, texture-led strand of jungle and drum & bass: rollin…
53 artists · 1,069 releases · 76 mixs · 63 raves
Liquid / Atmospheric
Intelligent
The Intelligent drum & bass / jungle tradition: carefully constructed breakbeats, rich harmonic and melodic development and immersive, experimental c…
36 artists · 58 releases · 15 mixs · 7 raves
Liquid / Atmospheric
Jazzstep
Slide a double bass lick under a skippy break and the whole vibe shifts. That is jazzstep: a strand of jungle and drum & bass that leans on jazz, wit…
30 artists · 137 releases · 2 mixs · 6 raves
Liquid / Atmospheric
Sambass
Sambass is what happens when a rolling break picks up a cuica and a bossa guitar and heads to São Paulo. Also written "drum 'n' sambass" or "drum 'n'…
16 artists · 253 releases · 2 mixs · 7 raves
Dark / Technical
Neurofunk
Cold light, clean lines, a bassline that twists like machinery in the dark. Neurofunk is drum & bass with the grit scrubbed off and the engineering t…
135 artists · 3,743 releases · 430 mixs · 263 raves
Dark / Technical
Techstep
Strip the swing out of the break, push the bass down into the mud and let the whole thing stalk like a dark one on a big rig. That is techstep: a sty…
43 artists · 1,022 releases · 26 mixs · 57 raves
Dark / Technical
Technoid
Take the relentless, looping energy of techno, bolt it to the rhythms and tempo of drum & bass, and you are in technoid territory. The term covers a …
27 artists · 8 releases · 5 mixs · 11 raves
Dark / Technical
Darkstep
Fast drums, dread in the air and a mood that never lets the room breathe: that's the dark one, darkstep, a derivative form of techstep that lives at …
32 artists · 518 releases · 32 mixs · 6 raves
Dark / Technical
Skullstep
An extremely dark, abrasive branch of drum & bass: distorted percussion, harsh industrial or horror sound design and relentless pressure. Not a synon…
15 artists · 12 releases · 1 mix · 1 rave
Dark / Technical
Hardstep
Darker, lower, rolling harder. Hardstep is the name for the rougher side of mid-1990s jungle and early drum & bass, tunes that sit heavy on the low e…
19 artists · 1 release · 4 mixs · 6 raves
Dancefloor / Modern
Jump Up
Bounce first, subtlety later. Strip the original jump-up recipe right back and it's a bouncy 808 bassline plus a hip hop sample, and the tune is away.
87 artists · 3,479 releases · 82 mixs · 234 raves
Dancefloor / Modern
Dancefloor
This is drum & bass built for the big room: the hook the whole crowd sings back, the drop that sends a festival field up, the tune that sneaks onto t…
74 artists · 4,082 releases · 108 mixs · 286 raves
Dancefloor / Modern
Minimal
Leave the gaps in and the bass has room to breathe. That is the whole idea behind minimal drum & bass: space and restraint instead of density, with f…
48 artists · 889 releases · 9 mixs · 52 raves
Dancefloor / Modern
Halftime
Drop a drum & bass tune to half the tempo and it leans back: same sub, same pressure, twice the space to swing in. Halftime is drum & bass built on t…
45 artists · 1,091 releases · 31 mixs · 83 raves
Hybrid
Drumstep
Take the rolling pressure of drum & bass, let the beat drop into half time, and you are standing in drumstep. It is a hybrid of drum & bass and dubst…
24 artists · 223 releases · 1 mix · 3 raves
Jungle / Breakbeat
Jungle
Rave music that stopped marching: that is the quickest way into jungle. This is a UK dance music of the early-to-mid 1990s that grew out of rave, and…
93 artists · 2,702 releases · 117 mixs · 776 raves
Jungle / Breakbeat
Drumfunk
Here the drums aren't the backing, they're the whole tune. Drumfunk is a break-driven strand of jungle and drum & bass in which the pattern itself is…
26 artists · 81 releases · 18 mixs · 5 raves
Jungle / Breakbeat
Ragga Jungle
Drop a dancehall voice on a rolling break and the whole place starts to skank. That is ragga jungle: the strand of jungle where dancehall and ragga v…
49 artists · 658 releases · 6 mixs · 62 raves
Jungle / Breakbeat
Darkside
Strip the euphoria out of the rave, turn the lights down and let the sub do the talking: that is darkside, the name used here for the dark, menacing …
30 artists · 100 releases · 1 mix · 5 raves
Jungle / Breakbeat
Dubwise
Strip the breaks back and you can hear what holds a lot of jungle up: a sound system riddim. That is dubwise, the reggae and dub side of the music, w…
25 artists · 57 releases · 26 mixs · 16 raves
Jungle / Breakbeat
Footwork Jungle
Take the stuttering kick patterns and chopped-up vocals of Chicago footwork, drop them on a jungle break with proper sub underneath, and you have Foo…
0 artists · 0 releases · 1 mix · 7 raves
Experimental / Minimal
Microfunk
A specialised experimental form of drum & bass built on intricate micro-rhythmic programming, restrained percussion, glitch / IDM textures and precis…
20 artists · 55 releases · 1 mix · 2 raves
Experimental
Autonomic
Autonomic was a short-lived but much-talked-about strand of drum & bass that cut the rush and left room for the tune to breathe. It took shape in the…
17 artists · 48 releases · 1 mix · 6 raves
Experimental
Crossbreed
Take the pressure of industrial hardcore, bolt it to the weight of drum & bass, and let the stack sort out the rest. That is crossbreed: industrial h…
36 artists · 49 releases · 0 mixs · 0 raves