Droid, Nerve, Aphex Twin, Goldie, Squarepusher, Photek, Lamb, LTJ Bukem, Roni Size, Source Direct, etc.

Jojo Mayer, Tony Verderosa, Johnny Rabb, Adam Deitch, Zach Alford (played some jungle with Bowie), Zach Danziger and the guy from Droid

The bass lines are usually taken from dub records...If you don't have any, get the Lee Scratch Perry box set or King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown by Augustus Pablo, listen to the bass as much as you can, then try playing drum n bass beats to it instead of reggae beats. The drums are James Brown, so get out a James Brown's greatest hits record and play all those beats. Then play them all twice as fast. Tonality is a big thing. It's not just about playing the patterns...it's about getting wild sounds from the set that programmers, not drummers, would use. It helps to have two snare drums with different pitches so you can alter pitches easily. Also, you might try tuning them badly, so that one part of the head is tighter than the rest...that way, you can bend pitches during rolls and fills, or even during time, easily. That idea of thinking like a programmer and not a drummer is a big one. Drum n Bass programmers like to make things that sound humanly impossible happen. So when you think about that fast funk pattern, think of how you can destroy it for a sixteenth note, an eighth note, a quarter note, or a measure. Pick strange places for the fill. Bend pitches. Drag sticks. Mute the snare with your palm or your fist and mess with the sustain of the head. Use double strokes or buzzes when you do rim clicks, or do them without muting the head, or let the bead of the stick hit the head before the butt hits the rim. Throw a towel over one tom and leave the others as they are. I also think it helps to try to get cymbal sounds that either sound like they are sampled from old jazz records or sound electronic...short decay and a focused ping or tah. Splashes, chinas, or stacked cymbals are cool. It's also cool to prepare your drums by leaving splashes on the heads. If you've got jingle sticks or egg shakers, use those on the drums. I think it's good to check out how the pros play drum n bass, but there's a danger in going to them first...they have figured out the vocabulary of the genre and have adapted it to acoustic drums. If you go straight to the people who have translated the language to acoustic drums, you risk playing the translated language without conveying the language itself...like if you try to understand Goethe by typing his German into an internet German to English translator...none of the idioms will translate correctly, and the approximation will be really crude. Check some real drum-n-bass like Metalheadz, Amon Tobin, Basement Jaxx -there is/was a label call Ninja Tune with some great DJ music. Even stuff that's not strictly drum-n-bass from the DJ world like DJ

Shadow. (It's been a while i can't remember some of the other stuff, but i'm sure you know where to find it!). JB's , Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley ( old members of his band) I would check out The Head Hunters with Herbie Hancock ( Mike Ckark on drums) , Some straight ( not swung) fast straight ahead just to use some of their phrasing ideas as a 2 or 4 beat groove. Also just research ANY 60's and 70's soul remember what we call funk now at first was known as soul. West coast groups like Charles Wright and the 103.st band ( express yourself).. Oh!! checkout Zoro's book because all of these bands are talked about and drummers are named in there and many of the licks are also transcribed in his book. My favorite dnb group is Kruder and Dorfmeister.