From 1994 – 2014 Knowledge magazine was the essential destination for the latest drum & bass news and features. Whether it was the latest output from Critical, interviews with Ram artists or the latest mix by Hospital Records, there’s no denying the impact it had on the drum & bass scene.
Now Knowledge has returned with a special one-off book celebrating their 25th anniversary. There have been some special issues in the past but this is the biggest and best Knowledge ever.
An excellent artefact of drum & bass culture, this coffee table book includes new material as well as a few throwback pieces. The quality of writing varies across articles, but they're mostly pretty good. Having read State of Bass, Join the Future and It's A London Thing fairly recently, this was perhaps redundant reading for me as each of those titles covered similar material in far more depth, but I'd definitely recommend this book to drum and bass heads, particularly for the photography and design.