Style recipe for Suno v5

Drill and Bass

Drill and bass from the 1990s: hyper breakbeats, chopped amen, sub bass, aggressive and futuristic in feel. A name-free Suno recipe that reproduces the signature sound without tripping the artist-name filter.

History

Drill 'n' bass appeared in the mid-1990s, when IDM producers started pulling jungle and breakbeat apart with powerful audio software. The result was double-time drum and bass programmed into frenzied, irregular patterns that were close to impossible to dance to, often with a sly, half-parodic grin at the dance music that inspired it. Critic Simon Reynolds called it jungle by non-junglists for non-junglists. Luke Vibert pioneered it on his 1995 EPs as Plug, starting with Plug 1: Visible Crater Funk. The same year brought Aphex Twin's Hangable Auto Bulb EPs under the AFX name and Squarepusher's Conumber E:P, and in 1996 Squarepusher stretched the style to album length on Feed Me Weird Things. Aphex Twin kept at it on Richard D. James Album, Come to Daddy and Drukqs, and µ-Ziq's Lunatic Harness from 1997 has been held up as an immaculate example. Amon Tobin was among the later explorers. By the end of the 1990s the style had largely dissolved, but it left an heir: breakcore, which took the same shattered jungle sound and played it with a straight face and even more speed.

The recipe

Drill and bass, 1990s, aggressive, futur…

33 tags, 568 characters, 150–190 BPM — that's the full anatomy of this recipe, born out of the 1990s.

Artists in this style

• Bogdan Raczynski

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