I've heard loadsa Jackin stuff I quite like & none I adore so far, but then I've not been looking too hard & not heard any of it out yet...
What interests me about it though (& I don't think this has QUITE been said yet, although it has been alluded to a lot) is the potential to unite the Tribes Of Rave. I'm from Cambs & live in Blackpool & I always understood the northwest/northeast to have pretty much severed ties with the south & midlands (& Manchester/Yorkshire sometimes) in the early nineties when most of my peers started shuddering at the Italo synth house big up norf whilst up here they shook their heads at the forks-rattling-in-drawers of DnB darn sarf. OK, you've had speed garage & then bassline inbetween, which have made the odd play for the NW (some of the Bounce guys [its called Bounce, not Donk, Donk is the bassline] also make organ house & some of the bassline MCs hosted at some Bounce things), but let's face it, neither was going to sit next to Italo, Makina, Bounce etc wholesale, let alone that happening with Grime, Dubstep or UK Funky. However, Jackin, with that central sorta-mainstreamy electro house sound & with tunes that sometimes sound more electro, sometimes more garagey, sometimes more Wigan Pier, is both that little bit more Londony to go down alright darn sarf & that little bit more donky to go down alright up norf & hence, all these posts re Marcus Nasty at one end & at the other, lo & beyond....a night in Fleetwood of all places (& doubtless not the only one) advertising commercial stuff, bounce & jackin all side by side! I've not made it there yet & they haven't responded to my attempts to get them in to my radio show, but it could be a false dawn...or it could be the completing of a 20 year circle!