Drum and bass alive and well at Elements || EDMBoston Drum and bass

"Considering the rate at which musical trends come and go, particularly within the hyper-evolving genre timeline of electronic dance music, you might expect a recurring party to squeeze out a year or two before interest flags. That makes the weekly Thursday night drum and bass party Elements at Phoenix Landing, celebrating its 13th anniversary this week, all the more exceptional. In fact, it’s the longest running drum and bass night in the country.

KAYANA SZYMCZAK FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

DJ Lenore Fauliso plays at Phoenix Landing, where VJ Bonk.

Drum and bass - a genre that spun off from rave culture and took nods from jungle and hardcore in the late 1980s and early 1990s UK club world - has splintered into dozens of subgenres over the years, but it can be typically characterized by densely layered percussion, drum samples from old funk and soul records looped into breakneck break-beats, fragments of reggae vocals and horn samples, dub-style dropouts and rewinds, distorted bass synths, and sub-bass rumbles.


When resident DJs Lenore Fauliso and Bill Crook started the night in 1999, the electronic music landscape was much smaller, and more fragmented by genre, Fauliso says."


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