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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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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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