Renegade Snares: The Resistance And Resilience Of Drum & Bass by null

Renegade Snares is the definitive book on drum bass music. Pieced together using original interviews conducted with all the scenes main players, it traces the history of jungle/drum bass from its early roots in sound system culture and rave music right through to the present day. With its hyper speed breakbeats, warping bass pressure, and vast spectrum of sounds, drum bass quick spawned a whole new movement in youth culture. What began as an outlaw street reverberation from the inner cities of Britain developed into a Mercury winning, chart topping, world conquering genre in just a few short years. The frontier breaking sorcery that emanated from its foundational producers and DJs pushed new levels of sonic science into the music world, and it has influenced all other electronic music genres in assorted ways. From the shock of the new to a global phenomenon, drum bass has morphed from frowned upon marginalisation to establishment approvaland back again. A multicultural triumph, it is a story of resistance and resilience that takes in pioneers such as Goldie, Roni Size, Kemistry Storm, Photek, Fabio Grooverider, and many renegade maverickseven, at one point, David Bowie. With vivid descriptions of key tracks and a detailed lineage of the scenes development,