yeah you’re right about the music policy of DIY, though they were still (very loosely) affiliated to the circuit well into 92-93, in the same way that Dave Angel, Colin Faver were for a few years when sample-based breakbeat hardcore and techno split circa 92. I have DIY Jack tapes from Universe, castle morton etc.
As for Sasha, I’ll defer to your expertise on that! I have not taken the time to source the provenance of those Eclipse tapes — I like my house dubby, so I gravitate to NY orientated sets.
date on this is wrong, it’s spring '92 . you can hear all the constituent ingredients being drawn into the melting pot and jungle being born in realtime.
Top set from Ron.
Project 1 - Smokin’ Chalice
Longsy D - Dangerous Dub
Noise Factory - Jungle Techno
DJ’s Unite Volume 1 (A)
Unknown Artist Bass Culture EP (A2)
Urban Shakedown - Do It Now
DJ Blatant & The Master Programmer - Jinxed
Project 1 - Roughneck
Fortran 5 - J.R. Hartley
Code 071 - A London Sumtin’
C.M.C. - I’m In Ecstasy
Urban Distress - No Skank
Nick-O-D - Ruff Dub
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Remington - Have you any Sy ( Nottingham) tapes?
Seems to be that style & everyone raved about his technical skills
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ehh maybe a few from 91-92 before the split, he was def on the happy hardcore end of the spectrum come '93 and not really jungle/jungle techno/dnb. Great dj technically though, you’re right.
Generally the dj tapes I listen to for that sort of thing are (excluding pirate radio otherwise we could be here forever.)
Randall (for pretty much playing proto-jungle as early as 91.)
Kenny Ken - for his diversity in the 91-92 period between UK and euro, and for his ragga leaning sets in 93-94.
LTJ Bukem - For the soul.
Easygroove, for the sheer chaos of his sets, always on the verge of disintegration.
DJ Ron for sequencing and presentation.
So yeah, pretty london focused.
in general people like Sy focused on the Italian house piano vamps which jungle/dnb was really a reaction against
That crew were much less likely to play grainy darker records like this
and they definitely weren’t playing records like this come '94
