Drum and Bass / Jungle - Mid 90's

[Armchair_Expert]

Regbuser said:

Tekniq - The Riot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnCeeLuC5Ys

[Armchair_Expert]

Signing out on this - a true Emerald.

Many more to come, if interested....

Enjoy ( Doc Scott / Good Looking )



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQLLiPOouck

[Armchair_Expert]

pidsy said:

The fantastic Scottie by subnation:

https://youtu.be/GHPTYe5qmHQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w2DIeCEgtk&list=FLpiUu3ZE4IJl6xOZzDdtdBA&index=380

[Armchair_Expert]

lol

I knew this would happen.

You just posted the same link I did, a few days ago. Who's not been looking at what was posted. Tut tut.

[Armchair_Expert]

I will post a few more tonight, I'll make em decent.

[Armchair_Expert]

I'll have a think re above.

Taster for now :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZdXsGVEUgk

[Armchair_Expert]

Prep your speakers... a few of the "cream of the crop"... all need absolute attention and simply playing... the last one is.....

Bonus tracks included....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0qpAuEt9VQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w32ZIR43GX0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIYhCkBuCH4


B O N U S T R A C K S

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7mdBxRmJb8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q12WiXWT5lc

[Armchair_Expert]

Bloxxcreative said:

There's one remixed track I had, and I have spent hours trying to find again to no avail so if anyone does know it, there's a beer your way. From memory it was a mix of hard-core vibes, original nuttah, sharpshooter, apache, and a few others.

The intro started:

This one is dedicated to all the fkers...fkers...fkers...

Great. I feel I'm about to go down this rabbit hole again.

Edited by Bloxxcreative on Friday 15th April 00:11

Is it on the track - or was it an MC shouting stuff over it?

[Armchair_Expert]

Like both of those, 94 stuff is where it started for me. Pre 94 was too techno,

Also there was the Kiss Jungle hour ( Wednesdays? ) with Randall, Kenny Ken, Hype, Fabio / Rider and Bukem I think....

[Armchair_Expert]

Working through the updates...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsH7wLAYX54&li...

(3.21 for the drop)

Bear with

Edited by Armchair_Expert on Friday 15th April 22:52

[Armchair_Expert]

Carl_Manchester said:

My journey was slightly different as I was getting 90 minute mix tapes from approx. 1988 (I was 12 years old) from down the local Conservative club where my Dad knew a bartender who had taken up a summer job playing music in Majorca and when the barman went over to Spain he used to bring a few tapes back every few weeks when he took a break and i then traded those for english pirated rave tapes (they were 8 quid each in the uk at the time to buy them from a record shop) and so, the techno sound was fresh and new to me and i still listen to hardcore techno in 2022.

In terms of D&B/Jungle there was the odd tune that Mickey Finn/Swan-E/DJ-SY used to play out in the Midlands in 1993 that you used to hear on the rave rapes and think 'that track sounds a bit different'.

When Mickey Finn played the following track at Dance Planet in January 1993, it was one of those tracks that set the scene off into a different sphere. The bassline and the vocal drop (at approx 2 minutes 13 seconds) were very innovative for the time because they were stripped back and looking back on it, i think this is one of the first D&B tracks. I never heard the track being played again, by anyone, anywhere, I think it was one of those Mickey Finn special white labels and there were many of those, you might need to pitch it up to +6/+7 though for 1994 speed



anyway, am rambling now, i might need to convince the missus to come to Digbeth for the D&B awards as she is making me go see HotSince '82.

Interesting read. You are ahead of me time wise. I found jungle by accident in 94 at 12, after that my teen years until age 20 were to immerse myself. I had links with Flex 103.6, Pressure FM 100.3 and the well known Dream 107.6. Used to hang at Nine Bar Records in Epsom. Mixed, MC'd, did a fair bit.

The 96 - 98 era for me was crucial, most that came out then I captured ( thousands of tunes ) and it was a fantastic development of the sound.

The link you posted - and the break, sounds a bit Omni Trio.

I have an amazing link to the Amen Break, a documentary on where it came from and how it came to be. If interested - can post. It is brilliant.

[Armchair_Expert]

The absolute killer track : Kilimanjaro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHV872-k0XU

[Armchair_Expert]

So a few 94 / 95 links have emerged.

The following are along those lines - enjoy:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MLy8LH3mdU&li...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyk4vklDWrI&li...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNxns2udyos&li... <<<< BANGER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAJgHzRazXw&li... <<<<< Amen Rollout

[Armchair_Expert]

96 nastiness : (NSFW)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zUab9l-3nE&li...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDKA9CXZDK4&li...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FS2je8_0vE&li... <<<< lol here those amens!

[Armchair_Expert]

If you liked the "no smoking" label Jaco tune on my last post - a treat :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w72ocM32As&li...

[Armchair_Expert]

All this old stuff is great, but as I mentioned earlier, I have found a channel that has revitalized the Amen and the sound.

Sci Wax and the associated channels / music is doing what needs to be done, and picked it up. The work and expertise is biblical. Hundreds and hundreds of tunes coming out of these modern day soldiers.

Some examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i_lHEok4As&li...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S4vPJzDkRI&li...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t2AEpkJ5f8&li...

[Armchair_Expert]

Been away this weekend - refreshing to see the thread lives on.

I have considered your posts and offer you some earlier tasters. Not as early as 93, but these should fit the bill...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXTV1RGN-tg&li...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49aXNNUpcYQ&li... <<< not so well known remix of a classic - heavy amens - enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LV5YJaNcWs&li... <<< Dirty Dillinja track from 95, a hidden gem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEMKWNRH_eU&li... <<< Rare early Ray Keith track on Chronic - proper vinyl / early sound business


I've just remembered a compilation I am researching now on the tube from 96 ish - proper tunes, standby!

[Armchair_Expert]

Yup.

Jackpot.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjyJu1bvKZQ

[Armchair_Expert]

More of what made me really take note and knuckle down into the music: The 95 onwards evolution.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O7sVFgDhfc&li...

Edited by Armchair_Expert on Tuesday 19th April 00:09

[Armchair_Expert]

Ratty and SS on one of the all time rare great LPs in 1995 - 37:20 for the start of the best tune on the album. This is a mixed version ( it came out on a 2 CD - wish I had kept it now ).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8IsHfSU6VU