Drum And Bass
Drum and bass is a fast electronic dance style with rapid breakbeats at about 165 to 185 beats per minute set against heavy, slow-moving sub-bass lines.
It grew out of jungle and the UK rave scene in the early 1990s, drawing on reggae, dub, hip hop, breakbeat hardcore, techno and house. The drums are built from sampled or programmed breakbeats and sit over heavy bass and sub-bass lines, so the music feels both frantic and heavy. Substyles run from melodic liquid to neurofunk and the heavy, energetic jump-up.
Artists it is known for: Goldie, Roni Size, Andy C, Chase & Status.
- Family
- Electronic & Dance
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United Kingdom, early 1990s
- Also called
- DnB, D&B, drum 'n' bass
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,300 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have drum and bass among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Drum And Bass artists
Chase & Status
Sub Focus
Pendulum
Nia Archives
Wilkinson
NOTION
Bru-C
Luude
BlksmiithThe drum and bass artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.