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@2dark2sinister is an Instagram page run by Jack Shepherd. On the page, Jack documents the darkest Tech-Step, Neuro-Funk, and Jump-Up Drum ‘n’ Bass from the years 1995–2002. Jack’s page is one of a number of pages documenting the long and complex history of Jungle Drum ‘n’ Bass. I thought I’d chat to Jack to find out about the push on social media to document rave history. Quite a few people seem to be curating their own niche within Instagram, documenting…
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I conducted this interview with Jeffee last summer. For a brief bit of context, Jeffee was probably the preeminent US Junglist of the 1990s. Today, people likely know him for his Jungle Spliff tape, which was uploaded to YouTube a number of years ago and has since acquired somewhat of a cult following (Jungle Spliff by DJ Jeffee (DJ Mix, Ragga Jungle): Reviews, Ratings, Credits, Song list – Rate Your Music). However, in the mid-1990s, Jeffee was pivotal in connecting…
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[This interview was originally recorded and published in April 2023] So within the fourth chapter of this series I wanted to have a chat with a fascinating figure and a man who is putting it on within the modern day Jungle scene: Jon Stockwell aka – The Jungle Connoisseur [https://www.instagram.com/the_jungleconnoisseur/]. I first came across The Jungle Connoisseur’s Instagram page when he posted a reel of Dillinja’s ‘Ja Ya Know Big’, the B-side to Dillinja’s classic ‘The Angel’s Fell’, around May of…
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There have been a number of jungle tunes on my mind lately that I cannot seem to get out of my head. And as the title suggests, these are ’94 tunes typically sampling rare groove/ RnB records. But what is so indescribable about these tracks is that without doing too much to the original sample (it seems just by virtue of programming these samples through clanky 90s hardware) they manage to make the track something so entirely different, euphoric and…
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So to kick off what is the second part in this series exploring Jungle I contacted Owen Hatherley. A fount of architectural wisdom and expert on Modernism; this was to understand his perspective on the relation between music, drum ’n’ bass and cityscapes. Having seen that he was a fan of Eddie Otchere’s Junglist, it seemed fitting too. Owen needs little introduction regarding his background, but I will mention the immense impact his book ‘The New Ruins of Great Britain’…
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This forthcoming blog entitled Concrete Jungle aims to collect all my thoughts and writings on Jungle Drum & Bass. It will include histories of particular elements of the music, thoughts on the modern day scene and events, as well as interviews and conversations about the music with individuals apart or outside of the scene.
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