A Short History of Drum & Bass: This is... Turn It Up: A Short History of Drum & Bass

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spk_0 BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

spk_0 Our listeners' music and it gives me this feeling that it's so hard to describe in words.

spk_0 I love the groove, I love the drums and I love the bass.

spk_0 For me, drum and bass is always about like home.

spk_0 We just noticed that the break beats had a different dynamic on the dance floor.

spk_0 It can be melodic, it can be aggressive, it can be met low.

spk_0 Nights out, workouts, festivals, friends, fields.

spk_0 You need to be like in a club or a festival to fully appreciate it.

spk_0 The feel of the beat's driving through your feet.

spk_0 Baseline that can't help but make you move.

spk_0 People talk about Pounder Rock, but the right thing next early days was the biggest youth culture movement in living memory.

spk_0 The momentous moments of your life soundtracks,

spk_0 whether you know it or not, by a movement that started in the UK more than 30 years ago.

spk_0 There was a real feeling of oppression, music was always my escape.

spk_0 You don't understand what John Bull means to me.

spk_0 It literally saved my life.

spk_0 It's an underground movement that's won Mercury music prizes.

spk_0 They were up against spice worlds, when they're reading out.

spk_0 I was out there's no way for you to just go to media.

spk_0 UK number one.

spk_0 No one really expected a drone bass track was going to get to number one.

spk_0 And sold out Wembley Arena.

spk_0 When Andy did his first solo show at Wembley,

spk_0 drummer bass sold out Wembley Arena, that's like quite a statement.

spk_0 And even now, it influences all over the British music scene.

spk_0 What's up, baby?

spk_0 It was us that started there.

spk_0 We was at the back going,

spk_0 y'all pull up that, y'all real way, pull up.

spk_0 It's the sound of cultures, scenes and energies melting together,

spk_0 spilling into the mainstream,

spk_0 and leaving us jumping as one, euphoric, timeless, and utterly breathless.

spk_0 It's groundbreaking, it's life-changing, it's life-affirming.

spk_0 This is the story of how drummer bass redefines the sound of Britain

spk_0 as told by the legends who created it and the music lovers who witnessed it.

spk_0 I'm DJ Flight, and this is Turn It Up, a short history of drummer bass.

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