#drum-and-bass

#drum-and-bass

Wagner Ribeiro de Souza wasn't carrying much in his backpack. A local compilation of techno, house and jungle hits, a couple of news clippings and a VHS tape with footage from the club where he played weekly: small fragments of a music scene that he, under the moniker DJ Patife, and some friends were building in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It was 1998. He had travelled to London to talk his way into the office of Movement, one of Britain's most important drum'n'bass nights, with a single goal: pitching an edition of the party in Brazil.

Since 2017, They Are Gutting a Body of Water have evolved from Doug Dulgarian's shoegazey, slowcore-influenced solo project into a dense, maximalist quartet that can best be described as the soundtrack to a hypothetical Mario Kart Level of Hell. The band's fusion of drum 'n' bass and breakcore with harsh, dense layers of guitar and bass is often accompanied by rounded, N64-inspired tones, creating a world both playful and sinister in its embrace of the synthetic.