It's Drum And Bass Week!
The origins of Drum and Bass hail back to the centuries old inuit societies on Greenland and Northern America. For them, DnB was more than just music; it was also a trapping method highly important to their survival as well as way of life. Inuits would cut holes in the sea ice, then use a kind of throat singing to drop fat bass lines and bang on the ice with whale and seal bones to get sick beats. The goal was to lure sea ice amphipods which the inuits relied on for sustenance to the hole and the phatter the beats, the more food they caught. DnB was later passed on to the rest of the world through the danish and others in regular contact with these societies. Today, DnB is often enjoyed in clubs far away from the desolate wilderness of the sea-ice landscapes, but it may pay to keep the old ways in mind should you ever find yourself floating alone on a piece of ice.
So, please partake in our discussion and celebration of this historically interesting genre!