“Over the next few months, The History of Drum and Bass will look back at some of the tracks that shaped the D’n’B scene,” Peshay tells Apple Music about his new mix series. The first instalment—launched June 2024—rewinds back to the early days of the London DJ/producer’s own career—and the warehouses where rave music was beginning to diverge into exciting new strands. “[We begin] with 1992, a great year for new music starting to move away from four-to-the-floor beats and into the incorporation of more breakbeat elements, arguably the birth of hard rave music,” he says. “These tracks are some of my favourites that I used to regularly play at the time. I was also experimenting in the studio and was learning about production, which for me went hand in hand with DJing. It really gave me goosebumps going through all these tracks again and putting this mix together—it took me back to the time when I was DJing at venues like Roller Express [in North London] and Tasco Warehouse [South-east London], great times.”
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