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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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