Anyone still listen to Jungle/DNB?

[EL CORINTHIAN]

I was thinking about this latley but Jungle and DNB, which i recently discovered arent the same thing, were pretty awesome when done right. I was curious how the scene was looking. Anyone enjoy these two genres? Reccomendations?

I found some newer artists but they seem pretty dark and ominous compared to their older counterparts. Heres an example

 

[EL CORINTHIAN]

Really? No love for DNB?

 

[Dr Colossus]

 

[HUGHPHUG]

I'm still a fiend for it, tend to lean mitre towards either intelligent drum and bass or original jungle rude boy stuff

Was a part of the original scene and still rep it to this day. Working on both a new mix and a new track, but possibly will never finish either

 

[Spam On Rye]

I'm not an expert or even sure what genres are which but I'm an obsessive music collector and got all kinds of dance/club music in my crates. Here's a few random.

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

Legendary classic.

 

[Dr Colossus]

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

Wow pretty sick.

 

[HUGHPHUG]

For me these are the four songs that set the bar for drum and bass, there are plenty of others near by but I feel these are the untouchables

 

[HUGHPHUG]

Being a part of this scene as it was created is hard to describe now, not just drum and bass but the rave and illegal party scene in the UK late 80s early 90s.

We would gather in abandoned warehouses, supermarkets, barns, posh kid's houses, fields, woodland, piers etc. Anywhere someone was stupid enough to rent out space to the organisers. You have the biggest baddest PA systems known to man, a bunch of djs, a couple of mcs, and you made history. The feeling of walking into these places with pockets full of drugs, with a bunch of them already inside you, and having that first blast of bass knock the wind out of you was something else

We went from acid to hardcore to jungle to the more refined intelligent drum and bass. Unfortunately it eventually evolved into hard step which pretty much killed it for me, but the early evolution was beautiful

 

[BFoe]

Being a part of this scene as it was created is hard to describe now, not just drum and bass but the rave and illegal party scene in the UK late 80s early 90s.

We would gather in abandoned warehouses, supermarkets, barns, posh kid's houses, fields, woodland, piers etc. Anywhere someone was stupid enough to rent out space to the organisers. You have the biggest baddest PA systems known to man, a bunch of djs, a couple of mcs, and you made history. The feeling of walking into these places with pockets full of drugs, with a bunch of them already inside you, and having that first blast of bass knock the wind out of you was something else

We went from acid to hardcore to jungle to the more refined intelligent drum and bass. Unfortunately it eventually evolved into hard step which pretty much killed it for me, but the early evolution was beautiful

I had a lot of the same experiences in Arizona USA. I was just after your time period, like 1993-2000. Abandoned warehouses, desert parties… one time in an abandoned airfield, which was really insane once the party favors kicked in.

 

[HUGHPHUG]

I had a lot of the same experiences in Arizona USA. I was just after your time period, like 1993-2000. Abandoned warehouses, desert parties… one time in an abandoned airfield, which was really insane once the party favors kicked in.

What type of music was coming through during the earlier period? Was from and bass much of a thing in 93 to 96? I guess I've always assumed that most hardcore, jungle and drum and bass was a UK thing. I no it's spread eventually but I'm not sure how far are anthems of the time actually spread

 

[BFoe]

What type of music was coming through during the earlier period? Was from and bass much of a thing in 93 to 96? I guess I've always assumed that most hardcore, jungle and drum and bass was a UK thing. I no it's spread eventually but I'm not sure how far are anthems of the time actually spread

Oh yeah, DnB and jungle were super common, and most bigger raves with multiple rooms had some kind of jungle/DnB room. I remember seeing a NY jungle DJ called Odi (I think that’s how he spelled it) spin an absolutely incredible jungle set.

There was a hardcore scene too. Arizona is so close to Cali, and there was a CA DJ called Ron D. Core who spun hardcore and ran a record label called Dr. Freecloud’s Mixing Lab with other west coast hardcore DJs. Ron D. Core also liked to occasionally spin old school (like 1980s) acid, those sets were really cool.

And we had a local scene too. There’s a DJ who’s gotten a lot of mainstream success called Z-Trip, he lived in Phoenix back then and in those days was an underground DJ and had a crew called the Bombshelter DJs that were all really dope. And we had some uniquely American things like Chicago house or Detroit techno that sprung up in the late 80s and had spread throughout the country by the early-to-mid 90s.

 

[HUGHPHUG]

Oh yeah, DnB and jungle were super common, and most bigger raves with multiple rooms had some kind of jungle/DnB room. I remember seeing a NY jungle DJ called Odi (I think that’s how he spelled it) spin an absolutely incredible jungle set.

There was a hardcore scene too. Arizona is so close to Cali, and there was a CA DJ called Ron D. Core who spun hardcore and ran a record label called Dr. Freecloud’s Mixing Lab with other west coast hardcore DJs. Ron D. Core also liked to occasionally spin old school (like 1980s) acid, those sets were really cool.

And we had a local scene too. There’s a DJ who’s gotten a lot of mainstream success called Z-Trip, he lived in Phoenix back then and in those days was an underground DJ and had a crew called the Bombshelter DJs that were all really dope. And we had some uniquely American things like Chicago house or Detroit techno that sprung up in the late 80s and had spread throughout the country by the early-to-mid 90s.

Oh yeah I remember z-trip, he's a talented guy. Worked a bit with an MC called Azeem in the early 2000s

Chicago house and deep house kind of blended into the acid house days over here, I loved it but it wasn't really played in the raves as much by the time I was a regular

Still listen to old school deep house a lot, it's gorgeous