Different Drumz live
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Different Drumz live
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About Different Drumz live
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Different Drumz is a UK internet radio station given over to drum and bass, broadcasting continuously with a rotation of resident DJs and guest mixes.
Drum and bass is one of the few genres Britain can claim outright. It came out of the rave and jungle scenes of the early nineties, built on breakbeats pitched up to around 170 beats per minute over heavy sub-bass, and it has stayed a largely British concern ever since — with its own labels, its own club circuit and a set of subgenres, from liquid to neurofunk, that mean very different things to the people who follow them.
Stations like this one exist because commercial radio never made room for the music at that length. A DJ set needs an hour to develop, which does not fit a playlist format built on three-minute records, and internet radio removed the constraint entirely.
Different Drumz streams around the clock and plays straight in the browser here, free and with nothing to install.
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Frequently asked questions about Different Drumz live
Different Drumz has no place on the dial. It is one of the many British stations that launched as a stream rather than applying to Ofcom for a frequency, which is why specialist formats like this one exist at all — the audience for them is spread too thin for local FM. It plays here with nothing to install.
Usually both. Stations in this format tend to move between the classic catalogue and current releases, since the audience follows the music rather than a single period.
Britain has an unusual claim on this music — jungle, drum and bass, UK garage and grime all originated here — and stations like Different Drumz exist to give those styles the airtime that playlist radio does not.
It covers the whole of the United Kingdom. British radio splits fairly sharply between national networks like this one and the local and community stations that serve a single area.
Yes — the link to its official site is in the station details above. That is the place to find the current schedule and presenter line-up, which change more often than a directory can track.