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From:
Philip Sherburne
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Date:
Tue, 8 May 2001 22:00:18 -0700
Subject:
[idm] jungle
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My two cents about jungle - Funny thing happened to me lately. I hadn't heard any drum'n'bass that moved me in ages (for the record, I was a big fan of No U-Turn, and after that the whole Matrix/Optical axis... basically, anything on Metro totally slayed me; the last stuff I bought was Polar & Klute). I rarely went out to hear it, for a variety of reasons, and I stopped spinning it myself (I'd never been much of a jungle DJ to begin with, so it wasn't much of a sacrifice). But not too long ago I heard the London Elektricity track on the Off-Centre comp on BBE, and it totally grabbed me. Fat and jazzy and as much influenced by Detroit techno as anything, with that really growly synth resonance. I went on to pick up a few London Elektricity 12"s and then the Plastic Surgery 2 comp on Hospital... and suddenly I've fallen in love, or at least mild infatuation, all over again. I feel like this stuff has much more in common with broken beat than most jungle out there (the J Majik on Defected is another good example) - in fact, people like Andrew Jervis have been mixing up their broken beat sets with 3 or 4 jungle tracks in a row, to change up the tempo... and it works. I don't know if this stuff is getting played out at trad drum'n'bass nights, but in more diverse, breaks'n'jazz contexts, it works really well. Philip