Amazing video of that dad skanking!!!
And interesting about Lorenzo, all good stuff I'munna add to this giant boombaclart Jackin article I'm working on
Weirdly, I was just looking over the first pages of the Funky thread from way back in 2007, and people were talking about 'Jackin House' being a thing in Nottingham:
Gabba Flamenco Crossover: "What do people think about the jackin' house scene that's big in Nottingham? Their records are like a more quirky, forward version of bassline a lot of the time."
Elgato: "do you mean Drop Music and .dotbleep and suchlike?"
Gabba Flamenco Crossover: "Yes, them and the US producers that are repped by people on that scene, like Jacob London."
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What's the connection? I tried to find some of this stuff, but could only get hold of a little bit, but it seems pretty distant sonically from the current Jackin scene... But maybe this was where the name comes in - it seemed a pretty giant jump from Chicago in the 80s to Leeds/Brum in the 2010s...
Jambie guesses that this was likely a part of the primordial ooze from which Jackin sprung, the kind of House music the bassline guys were listening to:
Also if you go on Lorenzo's own soundcloud and look at the Cause & Affect tracks from two years ago, they're all straight Electro-Swing!!! which makes loads of sense actually.
Do any of you have any other ideas about proto-Jackin bangers?