Drill and bass

Drill and bass is a genre name coined by fans for a type of electronic music that emerged from drum and bass in the mid-1990s. Artists like Luke V., Squarepusher, and Aphex Twin experimented with this kind of music around 1995.

The genre is characterized by extremely complex and detailed drum programming, often sampled from the Amen drum loop. Although inspired by early Jungle music, the complexity and attention to detail found in drill and bass distanced it from the dancefloor mentality of early drum and bass, which was only slightly emerging at the time.

Only a few artists, such as The Flashbulb, still produce to the drill and bass regularly.

Early releases

• Hangable Auto Bulb series of EPs by Aphex Twin (as AFX)
• Conumber E:P by Squarepusher
• Alroy Road Tracks by Squarepusher (as Duke of Harringay)

Notable later releases

• Feed Me Weird Things - Squarepusher, 1996
• Richard D. James album - Aphex Twin, 1996
• Come to Daddy EP - Aphex Twin, 1997
• Big Loada - Squarepusher, 1997
• Boku Mo Wakaran - Bogdan R., 1998
• Lunatic Harness - µ-ziq, 1997
• drukqs - Aphex Twin, 2001

Examples

• Mix session by DJ Think
• Pipetracker
• Psultan

External links

• Description of drill and bass at allmusic.com