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In an exclusive extract abridged from their new book, ‘Renegade Snares – The Resistance And Resilience Of Drum & Bass’, authors Ben Murphy and Carl Loben pick their way through the origins of the more mellow offshoot, and it all starts with LTJ Bukem

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