Drum and Bass Appreciation Week at JIVE Magazine

[JIVE News]

JIVE Magazine kicks off Drum and Bass appreciation week with three exclusive features about the people we think are really pushing the genre forward. Drum and Bass may be an acquired taste, but once you have it under your skin, you’ll appreciate its innovation, its uniqueness, its complexity and the fury of emotion that only the sound of Drum and Bass can bring.



Planet of the Drums: Four Men, One Mission
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It’s past midnight on Friday, May 20, in Washington, DC, and The Great American Brock Out is in full effect at Buzzlife Productions’ notorious weekly, Cubik. From the DJ booth, MC Messinian aka James Messinian punctuates the drum and bass tempest emanating from the controls manned by Dieselboy, Dara and AK1200 with cries for the crowd to shout “F*ck, Yeah!” Out on the dance floor under super-club Nation’s crystal clear state-of-the-art sound system and on the catwalks that overlook the revelry below, hundreds and hundreds of junglists are thrashing and pumping their arms, twisting and jerking their bodies, stepping lively with abandon as far back as the eye can see beneath state-of-the-art multi-colored criss-crossing lasers and strobe lights, and screaming their brains out: “F*CK, YEAH!”

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http://www.jivemagazine.com/article.php?pid=3422




Fresh: Ferocious
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Fresh in person is charmingly feral in his polite, soft-spoken British way. Like The Tiger in William Blake’s poem, his gold- green eyes burn bright with fire. Prolific creator of some of the wickedest melodies and rhythms of our time, Fresh’s quiet reserve masks a beast pacing inside him. Fresh, AKA Dan Stein age 28, who was voted best producer of the year in the prestigious Knowledge Drum and Bass Awards in 2003, has made his indelible mark on drum and bass history, not only musically but as co-founder of vibrant seminal drum and bass labels and one of the world’s largest and most heavily trafficked music message boards, www.dogsonacid.com, the unofficial hub of the global drum and bass community, which has even spawned two record labels.

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http://www.jivemagazine.com/article.php?pid=3415



Baron and Pendulum: The Final Frontier of Everything
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Western Australia's Pendulum, the trio, whose single "Vault" was hailed as the biggest anthem of 2003, and awarded the prestigious title of "Best Single of 2003" by the UK's definitive Knowledge Magazine, release their debut artist album, Hold Your Colour, on BreakBeat Kaos this month (June 2005). Their first single on BreakBeat Kaos, entitled "Another Planet," made its debut at #1 on the UK's National Dance Charts and reached #43 on the UK's Mainstream Chart, a rare achievement for a Drum & Bass track. Their next single, "Black Tarantula," premiered at Winter Music Conference 2005, and was officially released last month (May 2005). Baron, the newest addition to the BreakBeat Kaos family, is the much respected DJ/producer whose hits include "The Way It Was" which sold 10,000 copies its first week and the uncompromising remix of Total Science's "Nosher" (2003's anthem of the year), released the acclaimed single "Guns at Dawn" on BreakBeat Kaos back in April this year. JIVE Magazine had the chance to speak to Pendulum and Baron during the conference and they talked about everything from their thoughts on file sharing to Drum and Bass crossover, plus what they think makes America different from the UK scene.

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http://www.jivemagazine.com/article.php?pid=3418