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Friction & IRAH - Lead Dem
Friction puts IRAH's voice dead center of dnb, dry and close, giving orders instead of riding along. 'Lead Dem' hasn't left rotation since lunch.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Jungle Came Back and Brought Friends
Read more . . . →I’ve got two browser tabs open and neither one is work. One is a jungle EP from a speed garage producer. The other is Nia Archives’ second album. Both came out this summer. Both are the reason my neighbours now know what an amen break sounds like. 1. Conducta - Soundboy Johnny Rolling breaks, Reese bass that wobbles properly, and Conducta’s tag sitting right on top. His Soundboy Johnny EP came out on Nia Archives’ Up Ya Archives label in May, and the title track is three minutes of a garage producer making jungle without losing the swing from his...
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Benny L & Cleveland Watkiss - Metaphors
Read more . . . →Benny L makes some of the hardest, most weaponised jump-up DnB going, all air-raid basslines and no mercy. Cleveland Watkiss is a jazz vocalist and one of the original jungle MCs, a proper piece of the music’s history. On paper they’ve got no business on the same record. On “Metaphors” that history and that horsepower actually meet: the vocal winds through the intro with real warmth before the bass drops in around 0:50 and turns the whole thing into a warehouse. What I love is that the bass doesn’t flatten the vocal, it converses with it. Watkiss floats over the...
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How Jungle Became Drum & Bass (And Why It Never Really Died)
Jungle vs drum & bass: same family tree, two years and an attitude apart. The Amen break, Goldie, Roni Size, and why Tim Reaper proves it never died.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Hoax, So What & Dynamite MC - Thread The Needle
Hoax, So What and Dynamite MC bringing old-school jungle energy into the present. Thread The Needle is DnB with actual roots.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Born On Road & P Money - Bristol Style
P Money over a Born On Road ragga-jungle cut is a layup. Bristol Style is unbothered, bass-heavy, built for a subwoofer and bad intentions.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend.
