What are rollers?

A roller is a drum & bass track that just rolls. Long, hypnotic basslines, a steady groove, and few big switch-ups. The energy comes from momentum, not drops. It’s less a strict genre than a style you’ll hear across liquid, deep, and jump-up sets.

The rolling sound is core to labels like V Recordings, and DJ Marky, the Brazilian DJ who broke through internationally in the early 2000s, is one of its best-known champions. Rollers are built for DJs, made to lock a room into a groove and keep it there.

Rollers are the connective tissue of a drum & bass set, the hypnotic middle ground between the melodic and the heavy.