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I'm Clyde Martin your guide to the dark
heart of the UK club scene
so far we've dodged flying fists at
Glasgow cabaret and found ourselves
hula-hooping with crusty side trance
elves for this episode we headed to the
suburbs to investigate our crush
generational fascination with drum and
bass polo shirts Reebok classics and
stolen amphetamines have at some point
to find nights out for every kid with a
UK passport DMB is loud totally devoid
of any subtlety and it'll never die B&B
Club smell like Link's Africa and they
sound like a pneumatic drill going
tete-a-tete with an ice rink
the floors are sticky the snap backs are
sweaty and there's always the
overwhelming fear that the friendly man
you were skanking to skippity with a
moment ago might bite your ear off it's
not a scene for the faint-hearted
there's no chill-out room here no lava
lamps no James Blake just drum bass and
the token beatboxer failing to replicate
either
has anyone ever got laid out beatboxing
who actually goes to a DMV night in 2013
though well the people who go to these
events fall under a few categories
firstly your garden-variety junglers
soldier the angry young man who matches
his new era to his polo and seems to
have every pill he's ever dropped itched
across his face then there's the high
street dancehall queens in last season's
H&M ground-floor collection and of
course guys who look like they might run
a bong workshop in Brighton these people
are the staples of the DMV seen the
original nutters if you will but rapidly
they seem to have been outnumbered by
healthy-looking heavy fringe kids who
might be more at home with a Zayn Malik
retweet than an Andy C reload
I think the straight kids like it
because drum and bass is the heavy metal
of the UK urban music scene the
aggressive nice genre which sounds good
with a zoo and is guaranteed to confuse
your Bowie loving parents I began to
wonder what is it about drum and bass
that makes it transcend generations and
why can it make a man drive an imaginary
lawnmower I think that this looks
anything like break dancing everywhere I
turned there were people gun fingering
and trying to kiss their own noses even
the free bus pass crew couldn't escape
those filthy rhythms but why listen to
me
when we can hear the wisdom of an ogee
berkshire raven i understand right it's
more than just a drug fest
actually people love to film this
actually emotionally attached to
people's feelings
maybe jungle was originally given its
name because the club's kind of
resembled filled up rain forests of sin
the squawking the fighting and the
hopelessly lost explorers trying to make
sense of this strange world
it feels the odds of the rest of the
clubbing scene in fact it has more in
common with a hardcore show than a funky
house nyeh Pasha it's raw uncompromising
underground truth be told I'm not much
of a dancer
the drummer bass just has that ability
to make even the most stoic head no de
think he's David Rohde again for a
second
drum and bass isn't just a vital part of
the UK clubbing experience it's a vital
part of UK culture I've got a theory
that any event where you run a serious
risk of getting lost is worth its place
in our culture and for that many other
reasons the drum and bass scene is a
British institution
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