Videodrone Presents A Drum & Bass Revival


No, the genre formerly known as jungle isn’t staging any sort of chart takeover. (Though d&b singles do pop up pretty regularly on the BBC Radio 1 Independent Label Top 30, not that this is any sort of real-world indicator of anything.) Nevertheless, this brief video places two latter-day drum & bass favorites (Konflict’s “Messiah” segueing into Bad Company’s “The Nine”) over shaky videocamera footage of a Holy Ghost Revival meeting. That footage, with its original soundtrack, is embedded after the jump, but the above remix is definitely the winner here, thanks to the dancers’ spirit-feeling moves not all that dissimilar to those of actual d&b ravers. Not to mention the awesome word balloons that pop up about halfway in.

Messiah Remix Goes Off!! [YouTube] (HT: Tricia Romano @ Pop and Politics)

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6 Responses to “Videodrone Presents A Drum & Bass Revival”

  1. by natepatrin at 3:56 am

    You can’t spell Jesus without e.

  2. by Hyperion at 5:39 am

    @natepatrin: And you can’t spell “Holy Ghost Revival” without “Ketamine.”

    Oh, wait, you can? Nevermind then.

  3. by at 8:48 am

    Wowee zowee, maybe this explains my entire raving career, particularly my love for dnb…from about 9-12 I attended one of these ‘ecstatic dancing’-friendly churches, and it freaked me the fuck out.

    -Rachel

  4. by at 8:04 am

    Brilliant. But can I just say that the original is hardly un-funky?
    The drummer tosses off some pretty wicked breaks.

  5. by dafstar at 9:51 am

    just brilliant.

  6. by sublicon at 12:43 pm

    Clever as hell.

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