Jungle

Excellent tracker for mixsets - loads of old school amongst many others.

(that site does not show up in safari for some reason)

Thanks for the links!

(ps how cool is it reading vintage ILM!)

it's times like this i am glad i don't have broadband.

i've gone for the K&S/Goldie and Grooverider sets from '96 for starters. I would like to hear a 94/95 jump up set tho - which of the ones on the page do you recommend the most?

Is that a Method Man vocal sample on it?

i need to get this: Ray Keith's Vintage Dread

or at least i need to get a copy of 'Sing Time' RIGHT NOW

:D

(didn't know about TrackItDown site, looks good)

Radical Sound's "What Is Love (VIP Mix)" - just because. (also I increasingly think this is the greatest)
http://www.zshare.net/download/86436989db6c28/

Marcello is my hero.

-- jess, Saturday, September 1, 2001 12:00 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Link

i played some (non-jungle) records at the local drum and bass night the other night, but after me one of my friends dropped a set of early-mid 90's atmospheric jungle. it was so beautiful, it almost made me want to cry when he dropped "atlantis (i need you)". wonderful shit.

I've been rocking DJ Rap's "Journeys Through The Land Of Drum 'N' Bass" for the last couple of weeks and it's really nice. Okay, so it's got 'd&b' in the title but this is very much jungle on the cusp of d&b. How cool is it that she included an old Carl Craig track (as Urban Culture) - 'Woders of the wishing' as well as FSOL's 'Papau New Guinea'. Refreshingly open minded for a commercial mix cd. I'm glad I picked it up.

http://www.discogs.com/release/125712

>Radical Sound's "What Is Love (VIP Mix)" - just because. (also I increasingly think this is the greatest)

Thanks for the link, Tim - that track is f'cking *mint*!

On a heartbreaking junglistic note, I dug out my original (CD) copy of Moving Shadow & Sub Base's "The Joint LP" with an ear to relive a bit of the old "Breaks The Unbreakable" magic and the CD has crapped out! There's not a scratch on the disc, but when I try to play it in any player it makes awful "skittering" noises in the background of every track.

I tried to rip it to burn a copy and the same thing happened. Of my couple of thousand CDs this is the FIRST one that I have had this problem with; I know people talk about CDs having a limited lifespan, but is there any way to rescue this?

Also, if the description "dance music you can't dance to" can be applied to Cabaret Voltaire, how much more can it be applied to Jungle!

It may be tricky to do so with grace or style, but it's still enormous fun to bust a move to! There's nothing quite like the explosion of movement which occurs on the drops in a sweaty jungle/dnb club.

I totally love Lexis, who made cinematic, beautifully sculpted post-techstep for Certificate 18 in the late 90s. Posting "Irrampent", one of my favourites by him - the beats on this are mindbogglingly good:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/87602446672097/

DJ Rap & Voyager's provocatively-titled Intelligence album from 1995 is actually very good! I didn't know it existed until I stumbled across it in a shop.

Except that the motivational R&B (meets Kate Bush circa The Sensual World) ballad "Two Loves" should be the first entry in a thread titled "Weirdly Compelling Strategic Errors"

Heh Voyager is Pete Parsons (who is like the engineer on a million jungle tracks.) Never heard this either (except for "Ruffest Gunnark" and Engineers Without Fears version of "Spiritual Aura"--no idea if either mix is the same, but both originals are quite good.) I'd forgotten how ridiculously attractive she was. Definitely a DJ who jungle's faceless DJ/producer meme did no favors for.

yeah she was my crush #1 between the releases of 'spitirual aura' and her solo pop single 'bad girl'

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/4d/da/f05d828fd7a07c9bc122f010._AA240_.L.jpg

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Had one of those fleeting thoughts this afternoon and yeehaw the Internet comes up trumps again:

http://www.oneinthejungle.com/

Substantial archive of One in the Jungle sets for your listening pleasure. Good times.

This is gold, NV!

Isn't it? This site: http://www.allcrew.co.uk/pages/jungle.html has a few full shows by the looks of it.

thanks noodle.
any standouts? duds?
what's up with the "alternate versions"?

Good find. There's some great stuff on the Peshay mix (which I got down on tape at the time). Going to have to check some more of these - recommendations please...

what's up with the "alternate versions"?

― m0stlyClean

the mixes came from different sources? the first Krust link seems to contain some radio interference (inaudible on the alternative mix).

Always liked Ray Keith for a bit of the ruffer stuff, anything with Zinc on it, Mickey Finn and Aphrodite obv. A lot of these I don't remember outside the context of the show itself, used to have quite a few on tape but the programme was pretty relentless on a good night.

This blog is gold: http://dnb365.blogspot.co.uk/

Wow thank you, I've been wanting something like that for ages.

this is the place on the internet where I say Marvellous Cain - Gun Talk has to be one of the best full lengths in jungle!

Also, if you're interested in downloading the entire Suburban Base catalog: https://archive.org/details/Suburban_Bass_Complete_Discography