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“Drum & bass has never been the purest of genres. From the psychotic juxtapositions of the hardcore that spawned it to the Detroit-tinged, jazz-leaning liquid jungle of Bukem, Wax Doctor and company, right through to techstep’s horror movie fixations and beyond, 150-180 BPM bass music has rarely been afraid to plunder territories afar. Nowadays, the Autonomicisation of the Continuum represents another, highly layered stage in this process, one of the hallmarks of which—not entirely new thanks to the work of Photek, Marcus Intalex and man-of-the-moment ASC—is the flirtation with, and assimilation of, other genres within the wider sphere of electronic music (primarily house/techno, electro, dubstep and classic IDM). After years of generic mid-range drudgery, it’s like D&B has reawoken its primordial, pluralistic impulse, revitalising what had become—barring the steadfast amen pietism of Breakage, Equinox et al.—a living death.
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