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Six labels keep coming up whenever the history of the sound is told. Here is each one and the name tied to it.
Drum and bass grew up around independent labels run by the artists themselves. Wikipedia's entry on the genre names these six as key.
The label of 4hero, whose album Two Pages was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 1998.
Tied to London Elektricity. It is the home of the Hospital nights that run today, including Hospital30 in Brighton on 23 October.
Tied to Andy C and Scott Bourne.
Goldie's label. His album Timeless dates from 1995.
Kasra's label. Its Critical Sound night is at fabric in London on 23 October.
DJ Hype's label.
The jungle entry adds Moving Shadow, V Recordings, Suburban Base and Renk as labels of the early 1990s scene.
Our Culture and History panel carries features on several of the people behind them.
A few seconds of drums on the B-side of a 1969 soul single became the backbone of jungle and drum and bass. Here is where it came from and who got paid.
By D-N-B Desk
A landmark album in 1995, a Mercury Prize in 1997, a best seller in 2005 and a number one single in 2012. The dates tell the story.
By D-N-B Desk
Jungle came first, out of the rave and the sound system. Drum and bass followed in the mid 1990s. Here is how the two connect and who built the first.
By D-N-B Desk
