The sound may be gone, but it's not yet forgotten. Stamina is a Sunday-night d'n'b weekly party at F8, now in its fourth year of operation, bringing the sound of d'n'b, jungle, and similarly minded music back to the city. This week's party features Om Unit, a young producer and DJ from Bristol, England, who blends the sounds and rhythms of drum & bass, jungle, dubstep, and footwork, seamlessly bridging the gaps between these disparate (but connected) bass-music genres.
There's something inherently futuristic about drum & bass; its rapid tempo, its commingling of Jamaican soundsystem culture and American hip-hop, and the dark, sci-fi undercurrent that runs through the best d'n'b makes it feel like the soundtrack to a William Gibson novel. Om Unit, in particular, seems to understand this, and his DJ sets, genre-hopping as they are, are some of the most vital, forward-thinking presentations of electronic music you're liable to hear today. Drum & bass may never reattain its place atop the throne of San Francisco electronic music — but Om Unit will make you wonder why.
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