what are the top 5 potential bad boy tunes?

[blissblogger]

Talking of "Jungle Fever", there is something uniquely feverish and humid about his sound, on tracks like "Let's Go" especially - you can almost see waves of vaporized moisture rippling of fit

and that's carries on to the great UK Garage tunes like this brittle jittery beauty

 

[blissblogger]

Or this sultry twitcher on the flip

 

[dilbert1]

I guess I’ll just do 5 to swear by that aren’t posted yet

Love everything about this one, every single element, all the way thru, perfection


The flip to this is also completely amazing, but I love the dark sporadic and abrupt vibes here, some of the programming reminds me a bit of “Set Me Free” (maybe one of the same breaks)


Yeah “Time Tunnel” is total anarchic bliss and its unruly sampling of “Moments in Love” is epic but here’s another one where the flip is equal IMO, and I’m more partial to it. The main stab sequence is fucked, bassline very on point and nice pads later on


Maybe not a ton going on like usual but the sample selection is obviously totally brilliant. Brutal beat too.
Side note: how big was Akira in the UK at this time? Looks like it came out even a couple years after the American release, was Chris a complete nerd?


Gotta love the title “Hardcore Youth.” Off the Jungle Fever Remix EP, weighty, textbook form, again one where I just absolutely love it front to back.

 

[dilbert1]

c.m.c - release the energy/primitive - coming from the jungle (it's the same record, but got a remix fuckry between limited editions 4 and 11 if memory serves) blueprint scorching jungle techno!

CMC “Release the Energy” is the same tune as Primitive “Jungle Mayhem,” the flipside of “Coming from the Jungle,” fucking wicked one as well!

 

[dilbert1]

The little bit at 2:25 to 2:50 in Melody Mayhem pt 2 blows my mind. Don’t think I’ve ever heard that break in another tune, or maybe its just wildly edited

✂️ Melody mayhem 2 clip

27 seconds · Clipped by DilbertHernandez · Original video "POTENTIA BAD BOY....PART 2...1993" by IBIZALONDON

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[dilbert1]

Fuck it, some more

This one’s both bangin and adorable, the marimba bit around 2min especially, weirdly gives the Good Morning Vietnam sample a cute edge. There’s also a snippet from the Harry Enfield show, something like “Can’t even sample it!” if someone across the pond knows and could clarify


Obv he was very competent in the soundclash jungle style, this one seems a bit overlooked, simple but effective heat and massive bassline


The lovey stuff he did with Chatta B as Underwolrd is ace, this is probably their best along with “Champion Sound”

“Work the Box” OG is definitely up there as an all-timer but I kind of personally like this remix at least as much or a little more

 

[luka]

Another really nice one I hadn't realised was Chris

this is maybe my favourite jungle tune ever i didnt know it was him either

 

[mvuent]

Warning (remix)

yeah that one's not quite on the top tier but still always liked it a lot especially the switch up at 1:22. made crazier by how you expect those first two "new" bars to settle in as the new beat but instead it just keeps contorting. you can't just listen to a few seconds of one of his tracks to gauge how good it is, he plays around too much, you have to hear the whole thing in case you miss something like that.

agree with wild greens—"brok wild" is my favorite one. the first minute or so, the way it opens with a huge burst of warm light, with everyone excited and shouting, etc. the b side is also great though, for basically the same reasons. messing with the "doubled" grooves you get in jungle in regular time and half time by having different sections emphasizing one or the other; uplifting, triumphant 70s soul sample that keeps reprising over new rhythmic structures.

 

[maxi]

there's a case for arguing he was the best hardcore producer, jungle producer and garage producer, which is a pretty astounding achievement.

my favourite is 'motherfuckin hustler (jungle mix 2)' which isn't on youtube, but I opened this tribute mix I made with it:

 

[droid]

there's a case for arguing he was the best hardcore producer, jungle producer and garage producer, which is a pretty astounding achievement.

my favourite is 'motherfuckin hustler (jungle mix 2)' which isn't on youtube, but I opened this tribute mix I made with it:

Ah here. There's an argument to be made that he wasn't even the best hardcore producer on Ibiza.

 

[maxi]

that's true it's hard to top noise factory

 

[thirdform]

different impulses. potential badboy is way more dub, jungle for huge ghetto
space arenas. noise factory is bedroom guttertronics. I'm not sure if they even operate in the same lane.

 

[maxi]

but potential bad boy has more tunes and they're more consistently brilliant. it's basically all amazing

even random ones like these

 

[maxi]

you can hear pre-echoes (to steal a blissblogger term ) of his 2 step stuff in some of the early hardcore ones, like with the organ stabs and minimalism in this around 2 mins in

 

[Mr. Naga Pickle]

whats up with Potential Bad Boy. did he eventually become a Bad Boy or not. its been like 30 years now.

 

[blissblogger]

"Vibes" = killa tune

that keening edge-of-hysteria vocal sample ("save the last dance for me... won't you save it for me") is such an archetypal jungle feeling, you don't get in any other kind of music - not even the most diva-fabulous house

flashes me back to the summer of '94