DRUM AND BASS, IN YO FACE!

So, you like your dubstep and your house. Trance is pretty sick too.  But sometimes... man, just sometimes... you wanna go fast.  Like, real fast.

That's where the drum and bass comes in, amigo!

My name's Megan, some you may know me as "Megan", "Leduc", or "Brett's girlfriend".  Lets be friends!  I used to live on 7 Henday, and I'm sure you and I have ran into each other at some point. Anyway, I asked Jedd if I could write a post or two because I'm a fan of EDM and I'm really digging the stuff that's been coming out of this blog.  I've got a pretty broad taste in music, but my journey into the depths of electronic music began pretty recently. Through some incredible music festivals last summer, I was introduced to some crunchy beats that blew my brain out my ears, and I'm always looking for more!

But I digress, lets get back to the bass-ics here.  Hahahaa.

You may have noticed that we have a massive dubstep and house following in North America.  Thus, that's a lot of what we hear at EDM shows and outdoor festivals: slow, heavy, hard, and lotsa drops.  Drum and bass (or DnB, and if it's really fast, Jungle) is a little different - if you've heard something heavy and fast, like... really fast, it just might've been from DnB family.  The genre has a bigger following in the UK, but some awesome artists definitely do show up to play the EDM festival circuit in the summer, which is how I was introduced to this beautiful, fast, fun, and sometimes kinda creepy genre!

Here's a playlist of some of the stuff I like. Some of it's new, some of it's old, but in general it's all pretty good and will turn you into a raging junglist in no time!  Now, before we get our panties in a twist about music classification (which admittedly is a bit tricky with electronic - theres a lot of wild and crazy out there!) note that not all of the playlist is straight-up DnB, I also threw in some stuff belonging to - sister genres? is that the term?  Anyway, the stuff that sounds like Jamaican dudes on speed is Raggajungle, and the Prototypes tune is the product of dubstep and dnb making sexy music babies ("Drumstep").

So here's to getting in touch with your inner speed freak, I hope you enjoy!