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In the same way that Seattle's rock scene fermented into a grungy, grimy primordial sound, so has San Francisco's drum & bass community developed because of and in spite of its distance from the rest of the world. Producer Jon Drukman, a.k.a. Random, displays some of the same musical tenets as his Bay Area counterparts, the Phunckateck crew (DJ Abstract, Sage, UFO!, and Noel). Dirty, weird sounds spike the jungle juice, with unusual beat structures serving as the rule rather than the exception. Triplets and multilayered beats populate Too Stoned to Sneeze, not the hard-liner two-step beats so favored by the English lords of drum & bass. The result is a refreshing change from the sometimes formulaic masterpieces pumped out at an unbelievable pace from the U.K. --Tricia Romano