We stopped and listened. Just on the cusp of hearing I detected a rhythmic pounding, more a vibration in the concrete than a sound.' Drums, ' I said and then because I couldn't resist it. 'Drums in the deep.'' Drum and Bass in the deep, ' said Kumar. Ben Aaronovitch
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The sound of the drums was both familiar and completely alien. I had heard it before, but I would have needed to be in the deepest of jungles to have heard it on this scale. The drums had a heady, intense power, like nothing I'd ever experienced before. It must have been the sound of thousands of people dancing together.

Source: Whispers Under Ground

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