The Dissensus Jungle Poll Is Now Open

padraig (u.s.) said:

Hey yall. Not gonna make it with a poll. Don't wanna ask for further extensions, although thank you to sadmanb for the previously granted ones. Just don't have the time to sit and listen to tunes these days. Wouldn't feel good voting when I haven't made the effort to go over an absolute ton of stuff that isn't fresh in my head. Not exhaustive research or anything, I mean like the basics. I'll continue to chime in periodically with obscure gems and eventually (probably in like 6 months or something) I'll put up a proper poll of my own. Thanks to everyone who got it together to vote, look fwd to hearing the results.

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luka said:

reminds me of this great interview.
http://www.theransomnote.co.uk/music/gone-rave/gone-to-a-rave-51-paul-ibiza-gets-real/


When you say ‘it’s not yours’ who are you addressing that to?

Well going back to what we said earlier about the racial tension, when I came into this rave culture scene there were white DJs and there were black DJs, and a lot of the white DJs found jungle a threat. The early drum n bass got shut down. The jungle became an inner city black culture, it was strong and vibrant and it sort of slowed down the white DJs thing. People were moaning, they were complaining about it. A lot of the white DJs were saying, ‘ahh it’s too moody, it’s too dark, I don’t like it’, but it grew so big. After ’94 the drum n bass boys fought back.
At the time there was a lot of controversy around the name drum n bass– when people started using the term drum n bass there was a feeling in some corners that this was to hide the scene’s black roots

Well, I’m glad you said that. The name drum n bass is of black origin anyway, it said on my dad’s old records “drum n bass or version” – but what we think of as drum & bass now, I hate drum & bass. It’s moody. OK, Im not gonna say I don’t like it, but… Take Rob Playford. Rob Playford used to work for me in the early Ibiza days. He was a DJ. He used to come to my house with his long straggly hair, sat down in my house and said, I want to be a DJ, so I said, come on then. Colour had stopped mattering to me by this point, so I said come on then, and I took Rob Playford under my wing. So he then started doing his own label, all the Moving Shadow stuff, calling his rave Voodoo Rave. And I said, hold on Rob, I didn’t think you liked the black culture, why are you calling you’re rave Voodoo Rave, all of that. And the minute he started making money he came out with this thing called Intelligent Drum n Bass, and I started seeing what was going on here. The scene was splitting- jungle is black and drum n bass is white, is that what you’re telling me? And that’s what was happening. It started with Moving Shadow with a record called Snow.

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sadmanbarty said:

You can still send in ballots

They won't change the results this week, but I may do a revised list at some point in the future if enough come in and the results are significantly altered. Ranked ballots are best, but I can also use long lists. Send over private message or sadmanbarty@gmail.com using the title Jungle Poll 2.

I've already had one come on monday morning so I think there could be a few of you.

If contributors feels like revising their ballot, that's also welcome.

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