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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  1. natepatrin  |   Posted on Aug 13th, 2008

    You can’t spell Jesus without e.

  2. Hyperion  |   Posted on Aug 13th, 2008

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

    Oh, wait, you can? Nevermind then.

  3. dafstar  |   Posted on Aug 14th, 2008

    just brilliant.

  4. sublicon  |   Posted on Aug 14th, 2008

    Clever as hell.

  5. Anonymous  |   Posted on Aug 13th, 2008

    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

  6. Anonymous  |   Posted on Aug 14th, 2008

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

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