All time fave jungle tune
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This is one of my albums of the year and on a junglist tip so putting it here. Saw her play at New River Studios on release night and it was banging.
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the soul of UK club music when things had gone either jon pleased wimmin shitepipe loveland pseudo-garage (yes, in hindsight some of it can be enjoyed as a guilty pleasure) or sasha and digweed 15 minute tantric epics for Stone Roses fans in denial.
That Steve Gurley/Rogue Unit remix is a peach. proper incapsulating the deep ruff/smooth dialectic.
Classic Wax Doctor tune.
another classic 4 hero tune.
taking things a bit more avant-funkin
Finsbury Park boys!
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I wouldn’t amalgamate the 91-92 breakbeat hardcore and later happy hardcore as being identical. they were somewhat different scenes with different clientele. You really notice this if you listen to roast and awol sets from the era compared to the big raves outside of london, which, yes, prefered piano based tunes. But hardcore of the 91-92 variety was embrionic enough that it could be mixed with continental techno and acid, and even Colin Dale/Faver occasionally played at such events. With the chipmunk hardcore of 91-92, it was always juxtaposed with belgian techno riffs, hoovers, muddy production and sample overload. Happy on the contrary was a concerted attempt by those left behind by jungle’s blacker influences to reassert celebratory (italo house influenced) tunes. It is why it completely excised the darkness which was always there in the original breakbeat music, no matter how hyperorgasmic it all got.
in terms of dancing, you dance to the bassline and on the half beat, so it’s always been much easier to dance to than house for long stretches of time.
Some Chris Mac/Potential Bad Boy tunes adeptly demonstrate this by foregrounding the dub elements.
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Photek just dropboxed a new track (and it’s not dubstep)
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He also tried to flog a ltd edition 12" package for $500 and by all accounts is openly pro-Israel so fuck him tbh.
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many not so secret openly pro-Israel djs and producers from the old guard tbh. I won’t say more on here as I’ll get into trouble. will leave that chat to DOA where the kebabs trounce the burgers 
Kinda what I was trying to hint at the other week in the what don’t you get thread. 88ers and 90s drug casualties all one love until it comes to brown people and muslims, then the equivocations are endless.
Bukem doc from the BBC - 1997
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Great stuff. “I r o n ing service’ 
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haha thats the first time I’ve been on a DnB forum in over a decade. I love TPF, it’s such a serene and relaxing place. I forget how unhinged, ruthless and energy draining other forums can be.
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well, one of the founding tracks of the genre was called Terminator. and the other, Journey from the Light.
felt, like I was in a long, dark tunnel
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certainly no dragonfly records.
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Pop facts. Terminator was recorded in William Orbit’s Guerilla Studio in Crouch End. He used to get fed up with Goldie as his dog would crap in his garden and Goldie didn’t clear it up : )
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ha, north london excellence.
Probably some unidentified alias of his where he decided to bash out the breakbeat 'ardkore or hard acid for Weatherall at basics circa late 1993. Maybe mates with Russ gabriel and made this, which I still haven’t heard? https://www.discogs.com/release/392591-DJ-X-Welcome-To-The-Underground
We’re currently in the process of compiling a mega '91 pirate/warehouse thread on another forum. dm for the link.
i’m not sure how the djs from our historical scene in the 89-91 era got tarnished with the rep for being insulated vis-a-vis the more clubbier networks, I am guessing petty teenage feuds spilling over into peoples 20s. and I suppose the fact that there was a lot of cheddartastic rickety ramshackle white labels pressed up in 92 (many of which I have a lot of time for, but 93 was almost a reintegration of the moodier thought provoking hypnotics of 91) just at the faster tempo. But '91 was the year when deep house, techno, embrionic breakbeat hardcore, sped up hip hop, etc etc could (just about) fit together. DIY, Circus Warp etc etc weren’t so separate from the hardcore warehouse scene as well, and parties converged. Even someone like Sasha was primarily on the rave circuit back then.
I’m still a 93 till I die darkside/ragga breakbeat evangelist, but as the years go by 90-91 are becoming more and more underrated to me, ironically the time when the runny dumplings thought it was all over.
There’s a real urgency to a lot of music made in 90-91, the new feverishly emerging from (and supplanting) the old.
Slight pedantic correction(s)
Sasha was just still in the ‘rave’ scene early 91 ( Amnesia mix is April) but mainly at Shellys & by autumn was pure clubs as James from Venus was his manager
DIY were very separate from hardcore warehouse scene in their music
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