Drill & Bass

A bit of a change up from our usual Genre episodes. Rather than focus on one particular moment in a genre's history, we instead take a two fold approach, half exploration of Drill n Bass' English roots in the early 90s and half modern revivals. The original idea was that the modern stuff would be more experimental and varied in influence and would make it easier for us as our first two dip into an almost entirely instrumental and entirely electronic genre, but we both ended up surprised by the versatility and progressive elements that have been present from the beginning. The episode became less a compare contrast, and more a realization that this sub-class of drum and bass has been strange and unusual from the jump.

Albums Discussed

Ophiuchus - Nihilistic Cosmic Concept
Stazma - Shapeshifter
XO:RE - [NEED HELP!] War in Ukraine. Read description!
Root Locust - 0+
Rognvald - Xwife
Plug - 1: Visible Crater Funk
Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things
The Third Eye Foundation - Sound of Violence
Terminal Sound System - Solaris
Tube - Alive

Ophiuchus - Nihilistic Cosmic Concept
Stazma - Shapeshifter
XO:RE - [NEED HELP!] War in Ukraine. Read description!
Root Locust - 0+
Rognvald - Xwife
Plug - 1: Visible Crater Funk
Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things
The Third Eye Foundation - Sound of Violence
Terminal Sound System - Solaris
Tube - Alive