What is Intelligent Drum And Bass?

Information about Intelligent Drum And Bass

Intelligent drum and bass (IDB) is the widespread term for the subgenre of drum and bass emphasising influences from lounge jazz and ambient music. The music typically has a very atmospheric or ambient quality, with washes of synthesised pads, and deep sub-bass. The Rhodes piano is heavily featured, along with samples of other jazz fusion instruments like guitar, flute and vocals. Although the mellow and tranquil atmospheres contrast with the darkness and aggression found in much dancefloor drum and bass, the intelligent style is still generally produced with the DJ and dancefloor in mind, and not simply "chill-out" material.

Also known as atmospheric drum and bass or deep drum and bass. LTJ Bukem, boss of Good Looking and arguably the single most influential figure behind the style, is especially noted for disliking the term, owing to the implication that other forms of drum and bass are not intelligent. Bukem's track, Demon's Theme, written in 1991, is considered the first atmospheric drum and bass track.

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Darkstep - Drumfunk - Futurestep - Hardstep - Intelligent - Jazzstep - Jump-Up - Liquid funk - Neurofunk - Techstep - Trancestep
Other electronic dance music genres
Ambient | Breakbeat | Drum and bass | Electro | UK garage | Hardcore | House | Industrial | Synthpop | Techno | Trance | Triphop
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Jazz is an original American musical art form that originated around the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in and around New Orleans.

Overview

Jazz has been called "America's only original art form.
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Ambient music refers to a kind of music that envelops the listener without drawing attention to itself [1]

'Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is
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A Rhodes piano is an electromechanical musical instrument, a brand of electric piano. Its distinctive sound has appeared and still does in thousands of songs of all musical styles since it was first introduced in 1965.
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The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six strings, but four, seven, eight, ten, and twelve string guitars also exist.
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flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike other woodwind instruments, a flute produces its sound from the flow of air against an edge, instead of using a reed.
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A singer is a musician who uses their voice to produce music. Often the singer is accompanied by musicians and instruments. While many people sing for pleasure, vocal skill is usually a combination of innate talent and professional training.
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disc jockey or DJ is a person who selects and plays prerecorded music for an audience.

There are several types of disc jockeys. Radio DJs introduce and play music that is broadcast on AM, FM, shortwave or digital radio stations.
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LTJ Bukem is the stage name used by the drum and bass musician, producer and DJ Danny Williamson (born 1967, London). He and his record label Good Looking Records are most associated with the jazzy, atmospheric side of drum and bass music.
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Good Looking Records is a Jungle/drum & bass record label, formed in the early nineties by pioneering DJ/producer LTJ Bukem. The label is famous for releasing its own unique brand of atmospheric, ambient, and soothing drum & bass.
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Moving Shadow is a UK-based jungle/drum and bass record label that was started in 1990 by Rob Playford. Alongside such labels as Suburban Base, Formation Records, Reinforced and Metalheadz, Moving Shadow has grown to become one of the best-known and well-respected labels
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Metalheadz is a pioneering drum and bass record label based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1993 by Doc Scott and Goldie, it has been home to some of the drum and bass scene's brightest talent and is notable for the high quality of its back catalogue.
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Artemis (Greek: (nominative) Ἄρτεμις, (genitive) Ἀρτέμιδος
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ASC is a Three Letter Abbreviation (TLA) that may stand for:
  • Accounting Standards Committee
  • Accredited Standards Committee (ANSI)
  • Actuarial Systems Corporation
  • Adelaide Sailing Club
  • Adhesive and Sealant Council

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Future Engineers are a Scottish based Drum and Bass duo consisting of Lee Batchelor and Keir Cleminson.

Having released on popular D&B labels such as LTJ Bukem's Good Looking records, Partisan and 720 Degrees, Future Engineers
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KMC is an Italian dance musician, now known as Benny Benassi. KMC is produced by Larry Pignagnoli and Davide Riva and have released four singles under the name KMC before recording under the name Benny Benassi.
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LTJ Bukem is the stage name used by the drum and bass musician, producer and DJ Danny Williamson (born 1967, London). He and his record label Good Looking Records are most associated with the jazzy, atmospheric side of drum and bass music.
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For other uses, see Makoto.


Makoto Shimizu (born in 1977 in Tokyo, Japan), professionally known as Makoto, is a Japanese drum and bass musician, DJ and actor.
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Nookie may refer to:
  • a British slang term for sexual intercourse
  • "Nookie" (song), a 1999 song by Limp Bizkit
  • Nookie Bear, a puppet handled by British ventriloquist Roger De Courcey

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The Odyssey (Greek Οδύσσεια (Odússeia)) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to the Ionian poet Homer. The poem is commonly dated circa 800 to circa 600 BC.
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Omni Trio is the alias of producer Rob Haigh, known for a unique style of highly musical ambient drum and bass or intelligent drum and bass, and primarily associated with the Moving Shadow label.
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Photek is Rupert Parkes (born 1972, St Albans, England), a Los Angeles based record producer and DJ. He joined the drum and bass scene relatively early (his first release was in 1992, a collaboration with Rob Solomon a.k.a.
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Rantoul may refer to:

Places
  • Rantoul, Illinois
  • Rantoul, Kansas
  • Rantoul, Wisconsin
People
  • Robert Rantoul, Jr., US Senator and US Representative from Massachusetts

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Sebastian Ahrenberg, better known as Seba is a drum and bass producer and DJ hailing originally from Ingaro, an island just outside of Stockholm, Sweden. Seba is also the owner of Secret Operations, a drum and bass record label.
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ShapeShifter is an addon for Mac OS X developed by Unsanity that allows the user to apply third party themes to the operating system without modifying system files. Since Mac OS X lacks switchable themes which were in Mac OS Classic, Shapeshifter allows custom themes to be applied.
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Source Direct is a Drum and bass band from St. Albans in the United Kingdom, consisting of Phil Aslett and Jim Baker. Source Direct's music would best be described as dark drum and bass, with a similar sensibility to Photek, but with a slightly harder edge.
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Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated to d&b, DnB, dnb, d'n'b, drum n bass and drum & bass) is a type of electronic dance music also known as jungle.
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Darkstep is a sub-genre of Drum and Bass which became popular in the late 1990s. It combines the dark elements of Darkcore with highly energetic breakbeats. Samples commonly used to achieve this include the amen break and the firefight break.
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Drumfunk is a subgenre of drum & bass sometimes referred to as "edits" or "choppage". The term came into widespread use ca. 2000, when drumfunk itself began to expand. The hallmarks of drumfunk records are complex breakbeats which sound as though they are being played live on a
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