On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Jeff Shoemaker wrote:
quoted 8 lines anyway i'm looking for recommendations for other pre 1996 jungle that> > anyway i'm looking for recommendations for other pre 1996 jungle that
> > share the raw dirty energy that these tracks have
>
> i've been trying for years and it's very hard to find a nice compilation
> with that stuff on it. the "Junglist Massive" comp is probably the best
> one-stop way to get your mitts on a bunch at once. i've resigned myself to
> nth-generation mixtapes to hear all that stuff :(
>
While many have disagreed with me, I find the 'Jungle Tekno 5' CD from
Jumpin & Pumpin to have several crucial tracks from that period. God knows
where you could ever find that (and what happened to volumes 1 thru 4?)
and just to keep it on topic here, there's a track by "Chaos & Julia Set"
which is Tom and Mark from Global Communication.
I will speak to my friendly neighborhood junglist, Moonrakker about doing
an Old School mix CD. As it happens he played a set of lush tracks precisely
in this vein saturday night, opening for Terrence Parker.
And in my opinion, something really go lost in Drum & Bass when it got stripped
down to 2 step. The whole concept of break deconstruction got thrown overboard
in order to make it a real dance floor genre.
If you're into the whole drill & bass thing, early jungle tracks are what
inspired it. Though it's kind of a matter of, say, Muddy Waters VS Bonnie
Raitt -- there's the original which was a world unto itself, and there's
the after-the-fact people that come along and want to get in on something
that's not a part of their culture. It's not to say that stuff like Squarepusher
is exploitive or not valid on it's own terms, just that it's a reflection
of and comment on the real deal.
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