Drum & Bass Research

Drum and Bass, often shortened to D&B or D+B, is a sub genre of electronic music that consists of fast break beats and heavy bass and sub bass lines. It originated in the late 1980s in London and Bristol as a different take to rave and jungle music. The noticeable differences to dubstep is that there are a lot faster beats, and is usually slightly more vocals in a drum and bass track.


Drum and bass hasn't been a successful in mainsream popularity, much like dubstep, but has seen the popularity increasing in recent years.


Some examples of artists currently creating drum and bass are:


Pendulum

Shy FX

Sub Focus

Danny Byrd