The Rough Guide to Drum 'n' Bass

By Peter Shapiro

Pocket reference guide covering the arrival of the breakbeat on British shores and its subsequent re-circulation throughout the world in genres such as Jungle, Drum 'n' Bass, Hardcore Techno, Trip-Hop... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1858284333
• ISBN13: 9781858284330
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Rough Guides
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.1" x 5.7"

Customer Reviews

Rough Guide to DnB-Overview

Good reading, especially if you're a junglist, and got some spare time on your hands. Contains good info on the biggest names in the scene (the british ones). Does include downtempo and trip hop etc. however, so dont be surprised to run into names such as Dj Shadow and Thievery Corporation, towards the end. Also the book names almost each artists' biggest anthems, so why not use these highlighted tracks for your next burned compilation?

Good basic look @ D & B

Despite the not always perfect genre listings for the artists in this book, it still porvides most all the biographical info that any normal person would want for Drum N Bass and Breakbeat artists and groups, worth the small price.

Very rough guide.

The Rough Guide to Drum and Bass is a fairly decent book. Flipping through the pages you see a lot of leading names in the scene. In it, you can find some of the people who started the genere. The only thing I was disappointed about in this book was the fact that it's so new and it left out major names like Bad Company, Calyx, Dieselboy, and more. Hopefully there will be another book covering these names and more. Overall, this book was quite informative.