As a jazz subgenre, soul-jazz began to flourish in the early 1960s. A groove-oriented style built from the bottom up, soul-jazz usually begins with the bass player: You take a strong bass line, ...

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While a quick Google search will provide you with all the classic breakbeats you'll ever need, nothing beats the satisfaction of seeking out your own fresh samples. Committed crate-diggers will trawl ...

Johnny Winter put down his Gibson Firebird, slicked back his ice white mane and leaned in toward the mic. "Get those tracks, play them back and he'll sing over that," said Paul Nelson, as he and the ...

Here's a duo that's at the foundation of music itself, but which isn't always noticed: the musical interplay between the bass and the drum. "You know, in any sort of music, the bass and drums should ...

This week we're celebrating one of the UK's best homegrown genres with 6 Music Does Drum & Bass Day, marking 25 years of Metalheadz, the hugely influential D 'n' B label founded by Kemistry & Storm ...

One of the most influential and respected sub-genres in dance music, since the mid 1990s drum & bass has been a pillar of dancefloors the world over. Something of a homegrown hero, drum & bass’s roots ...