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Jamaican Influences
1960: In Jamaica, in the early 60s, rastafaris started to make music with elements taken from Caribbean music and soul, which first became Ska. Later the tempo was lowered and the reggae style was born.Later another style grew out of reggae called ragga, which was more electronic and contained more scat vocals. Especially during the early days of drum and bass, ragga and reggae were very important influences, and drum&bass's deep-founded roots in the black culture still show through today -
The Winstons - Amen brother
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxZuq57_bYM 1969: The Amen break is a 4 bar drum break performed in 1969 by Gregory Cylvester "G. C." Coleman in the track "Amen, Brother" performed by the 1960s funk and soul outfit The Winstons. The full song is an instrumental rendition of Jester Hairston's "Amen," which he wrote for the Sidney Poitier film Lilies of the Field.
Has been the foundation that hip hop and jungle was built on. Through chopping, slicing and tempo shifting. -
James Brown Funky Drummer Break..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNP8tbDMZNE 1969: With funk being a big influence to drum and bass, of course james brown will be included with his funky drummer break, which has be used in alot of drum and bass tracks and still used now. -
Incredible Bongo Band, Apache Break.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY-Z6wm6TMQ Apache is an instrumental written by Jerry Lordan. The original version was by the British group the Shadows, recorded in June 1960 and released the next month. It topped the UK Singles Chart for five weeks. A 1973 version by the Incredible Bongo Band has been called "hip-hop’s national anthem". Although this version was not a hit on release, its long percussion break has been sampled countless times on hip hop and dance tracks since the 1980s. -
Lyn Collins Think Break
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHn48b7iWF0 1972: With her havin alot of involvement with james brown and other soul artists, she had a big influence on drum and bass, most noticed for the 'Yeah Woo' and the "it takes 2' break -
Grooverider
Grooverider began his DJing at illegal raves and warehouse parties in the UK in the late 1980s.Working with partner Fabio through his sets at nightclub nights such as 'Rage'. His show on BBC Radio 1 1998 - 2012, attracted a devoted audience. Although Grooverider is known primarily as a DJ and radio presenter, he was also a recording artist under his artist name, and the 'Codename John' moniker. -
The birth of The Prodigy
Being named after the the 'moog prodigy' synthesizer, Prodigy has been one of the biggest influences in the scene being well reconized for the track 'Fire starter' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmin5WkOuPw.
They achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s and 2000s. -
Why Its called jungle?
Around the same time as happy hardcore, jungle was also formed, which many people mistake for drum and bass but it has its notable differences. Jungle is the genre from which drum and bass evolved from due to its sampling and manipulation of the amen break. There is no concrete evidence to show where the term “jungle” came from but the most probable explanation is that it came from the use of the word in ragga and dub where MC’s would often toast along to a track using the words jungle, junglis -
Andy C
https://ramrecords.com/
http://www.andyc.cc/
http://andycallnight.com/index.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drqG9LRhiZM
Founder of one of the most succesful Drum and bass record lablels 'ram records'. Andy c also is well know for his work as a DJ as well of a producer and promoter. He orginizers an event called Andy C All night where he will continusly DJ for upto 7 hours. -
LTJ Bukem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g3RUnx9svM
He was trained as a classical pianist and discovered jazz fusion in his teenage years, having a jazz funk band at one stage. He released a series of drum and bass tracks such as "Logical Progression",, "Atlantis" and "Music". His most notable release was the track "Horizons" which attained considerable popularity. Hes also the founder of Goodlooking records, looking good records, cookin' and earth series. -
Goldie
The founder of metalheads records, goldie has inspired near enough every drum and bass artist in the scene. Being involved in a lot of T.V programmes (E.G Eastenders, Strickly come dancing and Come dine with me, art work and of course his music, goldie has become an iconic name in the drum an bass industry. being well know for his inner city life (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx9-fjlh7Y4) and Timeless (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usqwy2-E4SE) -
London Elektricity
https://youtu.be/BKomhXJOZAs?list=PLMiW3k-im9uSDhkStXIwD78Gb8s6i-eHh
London Elektricity was the duo Tony Colman and Chris Goss. Colman and Goss are also founders of the Hospital Records record label, to which London Elektricity are currently signed to. n 2002, Chris Goss departed to concentrate on managing Hospital Records, leaving it a solo project of Tony Colman. -
The grand opening of Fabric club
http://www.fabriclondon.com/
It was voted World Number 1 Club in DJ Magazine's "Top 100 Clubs Poll" in 2007 and 2008.
Has been one of the main clubs in the uk that is pushing/promoting the drum and bass genre. -
Death of Diane Charlemange
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/28/goldie-leads-tributes-inner-city-life-singer-diane-charlemagne The day we lost one of the biggest female drum and bass vocalist in the scene Also having involvement in many other genres. Diane i well known for 'Goldies inner city life' and preforming live for Moby. -
The Winstons finally get paid!
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/frontman-of-the-winstons-finally-paid-for-amen-break-drum-sample-a6729996.html After years of sampling The winstons finally recieve royalties for thier drum break the 'Amen Break'. with the help of the website 'Go fund me' they recieved $24.000
