Bizarre musical development. The drum and base genre of music was created when people turned up the tempo on drum machines to insane speeds. But this guy plays drum and base beats live! Ree-spect!
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Drum and bass. Damn English and its polyglot etymologies.
Notice the pedestrians and bikers are all irregularly rapid too.. They wouldn't put a hoax on the internet, would they?! That would be quite base!