drum'n'bass

As usual, it's a seven-arena beast with a tilt twixt drum'n'bass and hardcore plus every sub-genre in between.

This week's new clubs 2011

The night's genre-blending ethos combines funk with breaks, beats with soul and drum'n'bass with electro and, to mark the occasion of their sixth birthday on Friday, DJ/production duo Jack Beats bring their Jack Loves UK Tour to The Cab, with one-man dancefloor demolition company Krafty Kuts, plus Utah Saints and Trilogy providing backup.

Clubs picks of the week 2011

Tonight drum'n'bass turntablist Andy C presents his own take on this chewy task when he brings his Alive! show to Brighton.

Clubs picks of the week 2011

Their Halloween edition is an especially dark and twisted offering, including dubstep act Tek-One live alongside DJ sets from Phace, drum'n'bass DJ Fred V and regulars Chimpo and Elvee.

This week's new clubs 2011

A big old-school drum'n'bass tune, straight out of Toronto, Canada, that smashes any dancefloor.

Harangue The DJ: Andy C 2011

His first novel, King Rat, published in 1998, was a twisted version of the Pied Piper story set in London's clubland, with drum'n'bass coursing through its prose.

A life in writing: China Miéville 2011

And now, people in H&M will think dubstep is a bit like tidied-up drum'n'bass, with no bass, and a random singer on top, rather than a vast, innard-rearranging expression of our own eternal loneliness in the face of the urban void (possibly).

Magnetic Man by Magnetic Man – review Kitty Empire 2010

By the time this Friday swings around, global drum'n'bass club Hospitality will have already celebrated the coming of 2011 by holding a New Year's Day party in Sydney, Australia and a midweek bash in the Alps.

Clubs picks of the week 2011

The UK's jungle movement of that period is similarly unique, as fresh and adventurous as dubstep was initially, and similarly went on to inform a wide swath of diverse musics, not least drum'n'bass, and its party scene has traded influence with sections of the UK reggae movement ever since.

This week's new clubs 2011

A classic drum'n'bass song from many years ago that should have been a hit.

Harangue The DJ: Andy C 2011