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Simon78

Simon78

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I know its a D&B tune not Jungle but I couldn't find a D&B thread. I've wanted this for 13 years and it only ever came out on some Sony promo CD which I have never been able to find.

Anyone got a copy?

 
hucks

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Simon78 said:
I know its a D&B tune not Jungle but I couldn't find a D&B thread. I've wanted this for 13 years and it only ever came out on some Sony promo CD which I have never been able to find.

Anyone got a copy?
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Grooverider had it up on his myspace page and I d/led it from there, tho it's probably no better quality than a you tube rip. Happy to send it you if you like.
 
Simon78

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hucks said:
Grooverider had it up on his myspace page and I d/led it from there, tho it's probably no better quality than a you tube rip. Happy to send it you if you like.
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That would be great thanks. I'm hoping to find the CD one day so I can cut a dubplate at Music House and reminisce :D
 
Tentative Andy

Tentative Andy

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Recently I've found myself listening a lot to what I can only describe as 'epic' jungle tracks. Not sure if these are a genuine sub-style or just some category I've invented in my head (to me they're not quite the same as the whole ambient thing, though they prob overlap a bit). Off the top of my head these would be two of the ultimate examples -
The Rood Project - Thunder:

& DJ Mayhem - Inesse:
 
padraig (u.s.)

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
nothing guaranteed to suck me back in like jungle minutiae

epic jungle is one of the very best kinds of jungle I reckon. unfortunately it had a very brief lifespan before teetering over easy listening car commercial muzak, but oh what a life! tho sometimes it's a bit hard to distinguish that good/bad line. a good shorthand is if you hear a smooth jax saxophone you've probably gone wrong.

as w/many things of that era I think you could almost singlehandedly - aside from lone genius auteurs like Crystl or early Bukem - trace the sonic transition from darkside to ambient/epic to Moving Shadow (Omni/Foul Play) and especially Reinforced. in fact I reckon if you wanted to do you could reduce it all down to Journey From the Light. but, anyway...

(oh and Atlantis is surely the progenitor of all this but we've all heard it so many times it don't need to be posted again, same for 4Hero, Omni + FP, etc)

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before he made jumpstep

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before he made clownstep

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before [insert tasteless dubai joke here]

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Graham Mew another one of those Crystl-style lone geniuses

DJ Tamsin + Monk - A Better Place (Bay B Kane Mix)
a companion piece to "Thunder", you will. the Trace remix is even better. the third mix, by Crystl, ain't bad either. incidentally, how's that for a holy triumvirate of remixers?

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of Fallout + Tango darkside fame (+ one of the few prominent female junglists, which I'm always fascinated by)

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think this dude was associated w/pre-True Player Zinc but I could be making that up (anyone?) either way one of those mysterious figures in jungle who made a handful of crucial records on his own small label then disappeared entirely

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the voiceover about the Internet is hilariously dated ("bad trips in cyberspace") but the tune still smokes

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and of course no discussion of epic jungle is complete w/o at least one Crystl tune. pretty much everything he did in that era qualifies

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and you can't never go wrong with Krome + Time! plus "Everybody Can Be" might as well be the official slogan of every heady summer of love forward the revolution moment of 90s British dance music
 
padraig (u.s.)

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
latter day epic as exemplified by Dillinja (i.e. Angels Fell) and GLR 10-15 or so, right before it all went so awfully coffee table: i.e. "The Western", that Peshay tune Andy put up, Photek's Aquarius tunes, and a couple others

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like this

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and this (most un-Source Direct Source Direct record? I mean it's got the crazy intricate programming but trade's Photek-inspired skunk paranoia for epic sweep)

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always thought Boymerang was underrated. the anti-Squarepusher ya know.
 
padraig (u.s.)

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
a bit much but there ain't nothing for putting off the stifling banality of the holidays like wasting an hour listening to old jungle tunes on YT.

also we should probably be pretty clear that when epic went bad it went so horrifically bad that 15+ years later most dnb is still trapped in brostep Pendulum awfulness
 
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FairiesWearBoots

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Simon78 said:
I know its a D&B tune not Jungle but I couldn't find a D&B thread. I've wanted this for 13 years and it only ever came out on some Sony promo CD which I have never been able to find.

Anyone got a copy?

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I LOVED this one - I only ever had it at the end of a Bailey tape, anyone got that one?
 
Tentative Andy

Tentative Andy

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Hehe Padraig I just knew you would come with the goodies on this topic :D . Working my way through now. I totally agree that DJ Crystl was a big part of this, his tunes have that 'blasting through space' vibe that feels like part of the epic thing to me (think one of his early tunes was actually called Deep Space). And yeah Bell Tune by Invisible Man is another GL favorite, there's something infectiously joyful about it.
Wise yeah the mix is on its way soon, no worries.
 
Simon78

Simon78

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I've been making my way through loads of these recently

http://www.oneinthejungle.com/

Fabio & Grooveriders show was good but I always preferred 1 in the Jungle with Navigator. Loads of the shows to download on that link

This one used to get rinsed in my Mk1 Golf :D

 
padraig (u.s.)

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
this guy recreated snare hit for snare hit the lost unreleased dubplate mix of Johnny Jungle that he heard once on a Grooverider mixtape in 1993. that is thoroughly crazy (in the awesomest way possible) but it truly is the best mix of "Johnny" I've ever heard, even given the roughly 800 other remixes by big name junglists. changes the whole vibe of the tune from pure darkside to like proto-ambient jungle on almost a melancholic bliss tip, I dunno...best thing I've heard in a while anyway

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wise

wise

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I used that tune on the last jungle mix I did, don't know if it was that guys remake or a vinyl rip of the original dubplate but it had some weird volume spikes whereone of the samples was much louder than the rest of the track and totally distorted.
The volume on that youtube clip seems to slip & slide all over the place as well.
Great tune though yeah, best version i've heard as well but maybe just cos it's fresh?
 
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