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dnb(romania)

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Category:	Music
Created:	Jul 20, 2006
Type:	Public
Members:	481
Owner:	Ionut Soren
Language:	English
Country:	Romania

Promovarea muzicii urbane(dnb),si a artistilor romani.

The late 1980's and early 1990's saw the development of a musical style and scene (referring to the social aspects around the music) known as acid house in the UK. The music of acid house combined regular beats alongside broken, syncopated, beats and strong basslines and fast tempos (faster than house music tempos). As time drew by, musical tracks containing only broken beats began to be known as "jungle" and began to constitute a separate and recognizable musical genre (circa 1991-1992) popular at raves and on pirate radio in urban Britain. These tracks often combined ragga vocal tracks, broken beats and basslines. By 1994 jungle began to gain mainstream popularity and junglists as fans of the music began calling themselves became a recognisable part of British youth subculture. At this time jungle began to be associated with criminal activity and perhaps as a reaction or perhaps independently of this, producers began to draw away from the ragga style and create what they labelled drum and bass. There is no clear point at which jungle became drum and bass, though most jungle producers continue nowadays to produce what they call drum and bass.

As the music style became more polished and sophisticated, it began to shift from pirate to commercial radio and gain widespread acceptance (circa 1995-1997). It also began to split into recognisable subgenres such as jump-up. As a lighter sound of drum and bass began to win over the musical mainstream, many producers continued to work on the other end of the spectrum, resulting in a series of releases which highlighted a dark, technical sound which drew more influence from techno music and the soundscapes of science fiction and anime films, this sub-genre became know as techstep (circa 1997-1998). Whilst evolving musically, drum and bass found itself suddenly upstarted by the garage/2step musical style, which drew part of its inspiration from drum and bass. This genre quickly eclipsed drum and bass in popularity and nearing the turn of the millennium, predictions and statement were being made that "drum and bass is dead". Drum and bass however survived this event and the turn of the millennium has seen a revival in its popularity and continuing development, i.e. the appearance of the liquid funk subgenre which draws its inspiration from house and disco alongside a new wave of artists, joining the "jungle" pioneers. It remains a fairly unknown musical style but makes frequent unrecognised appearance in the mainstream as well as being highly influential on other musical styles and some of its artists are widely known, perhaps none more so than Goldie. It remains most popular in its birthplace in the UK but has spread worldwide over the short period of its existence.

DNB GLOBALLY: Despite its roots in the UK, which can still be treated as the "home" of drum and bass, drum and bass has firmly established itself around the world. There are strong scenes in other English-speaking countries including the Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States[42]. It is popular in Europe, in countries ranging from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and the Netherlands. It is also popular in South America. São Paulo is sometimes called the drum and bass Ibiza. Brazilian drum and bass is sometimes referred to as "sambass", with its specific style and sound. In Venezuela, artists have created their own forms of drum and bass combining it with experimental musical forms. Asia also has a drum and bass scene in countries and cities like Indonesia, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Shanghai and Singapore.