two from the vaults
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I used to love DnB clubs… the music is pure energy and good MCs really hype the crowd. Mixes without MCs are really missing that energy.
In terms of dancing, you dance to every other beat so, you’re dancing slower than you would to disco or house.
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Jungle has just never been my bag - one of the few genres which I just don’t really get. Mind you, I also wasn’t a fan of the happy hardcore/breakbeat stuff that spawned it around 91/92. Quite a lot of mates went down that route and some have even had pretty decent careers, but it just never floated my boat.
As @boxedjoy says, its all just too fast to dance to and IIike to get a proper groove on.
Each to their own though.
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Love this marriage of D&B & poetry
Was on my running playlist for years but eventually thought it might kill me
(Crap video sorry)
Yeh strange that about Glasgow, was all about the house and techno I guess. A couple of hours up the road in Aberdeen it was a big thing. I was never really a big jungle head and only bought a handful of records. But had some good times at jungle nights and saw a lot of the greats, this was around 2000-2002 though so it wasn’t quite as fresh and exciting then. @TheNightlark was a lot more involved in the scene than me and probably has a few good mixes to recommend.
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Same here. Never got into it/understood it really. Lots of Uni mates 92-95 were bang into it but I was much more into House then.
Reading this thread with interest. Might dive into some of the mixes and hear what I missed at the time.
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I literally just this second scored about 30+ 91-93 breakbeat hardcore 12"s
As you say though, Aberdeen was a good place to go out to jungle, and the djs weren’t playing super silly stuff most of the time either.
I’ve played this a couple of times massively pitched down… sounds great.
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I’ve only been out in Aberdeen a few times and it’s definitely a “faster” town. Dundee I think is a slower, disco town. Paisley is of course just mental, in the best way.
I did so much speed in the early 90s, not sure what I would have done without really fast beats…
Dj Ron’s interviews on You Tube with Goldie Rap etc are really interesting and go into the formation and politics of the scene, The AWOL interview with Kenny Ken, GQ and Mickey Finn is worth a watch too, as Mickey Finn says it all comes from House and is just a twist on it.
Influence is things like Radio Babylon which everyone played , Axis Rolling with Rai, Octagon Man Freer than Free, All Shut Up and Dance ,Addis Posse Let Warriors Dance stuff plus loads more.
So good that these mixes are all up online.
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Yeh thar airtight is a fave ( total science - dons)
Remix is killer too
I second thar Randall mix that Piers put up - Awol magic
Current fave find - 97 sounding like 94 but better
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https://www.mixcloud.com/versionsound/hardcore-rhythm-team-studio-mix-vol-1-1992/
As a kid on the east coast of America, immersed in the New York hip hop scene drum and bass never made sense to me. It was (imo) very poorly represented by dj’s like Carlos Soulslinger and the ravers in elephant pants. It just didn’t translate and didn’t feel like a part of my universe in the same way that house or disco or dancehall felt like natural extensions of what I was doing and who I was hanging out with and where. It was very much niche and off to the side and its origins in black music were obscured by a whole bunch of talk about outer space and an affinity for nasty drugs like ketamine. Decades later I heard the hardcore rhythm team mix posted above and it felt redolent of public enemy and cutty ranks and I started listening and re-evaluating and realized that the music I didn’t like wasn’t representative of what was going on in the UK whatsoever. For me it’s great headphone music for long walks and dope in the car. Definitely have NOT figured out to dance to it, but I think it’s brilliant and so firmly British in the best way.
Ps, this dude has lots of great Kool Fm rips-
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When I think of hip hop and drum and bass together this one feels like it nailed it…
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It is one of those sounds which couldn’t have come out of anywhere else, and at the time we were celebrating all things British (inc the abomination that was Britpop) so there was a real newfound confidence there after years of trying on US accents.
Hence this horrific collaboration Goldie - Temper Temper feat. Noel Gallagher [HD] - YouTube
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Holy shit that’s bad. It’s not like I thought it would be good but it’s BAD.
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I never press the Dislike button on Youtube but in this case,
That’s comically bad.
Have you read the classic music industry novel “Kill Your Friends” by John Niven?
The DnB character called Rage in that who has basically done way too much gear and thinks he’s a musical genius springs to mind. I reckon Goldie (in the Temper Temper era) may well have been an “inspiration”.
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Can’t go wrong with 4 Hero, they were the dons from the early hardcore stuff onwards. Especially love the Tom & Jerry stuff
https://soundcloud.com/dj-bone-saw/tom-jerry-4hero-tribute-mix
When I worked at Our Price in Brixton, we used to sell shedloads of jungle, Mixmaster Morris was our best customer 
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That Tom & Jerry tune is my all time top gym tune 
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