What is jump-up drum & bass?

Jump-up is the rowdy, bass-first end of drum & bass. Simple arrangements, bouncy hooks, and basslines built to move a room. It trades intricacy for energy, and it splits opinion harder than any other corner of the genre.

It came up in the mid-to-late 1990s, when DJ Hype, DJ Aphrodite, and DJ Zinc pushed bouncier, riff-driven basslines. Labels like Ganja Records and True Playaz, later just Playaz, carried it. DJ Hazard, Macky Gee, and Original Sin sharpened it, and Hazard and D Minds’ “Mr Happy” in 2007 pushed it back into clubs.

Jump-up is pure dancefloor drum & bass.