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I used to say things like that and then I found out that Johnny Marr was such a fan of Chic that he named his son "Nile". The truth is more complicated. But it is true that indie is electric guitar music severed from the blues. The break actually came with punk - that's when boogie and...

Amazing how even after 3 decades of obsessive listening you can still come across a tasty jungle tune you never heard One of Tim Finney's Top 5 Jungle tunes - I wouldn't go that far, but very nice An Austin Reynolds alias

Breaking down his resistance video by video!

If she sounds like anybody in recent post-indie, it's King Krule And the dry voice also reminds me sometimes of Mica Levi, but more obviously singerly

Some of her stuff is less "indie" than alterna-R&B. Visiting the motherland (or father's land, rather) in this video, I think

I went with "Stabilised" because there's a drum & bass-ish feel in its flustered beats, but this below is actually my favorite Nilüfer Yanya - beautiful Vini Reilly-ish guitar looping endlessly, shoegaze drones rising up in the far distance periodically

My son put me onto this British singer Nilüfer Yanya - she's half-Turkish on her dad's side, grew up listening to Turkish music and classical, then picked up an electric guitar I really like the nervous, skittery feel to the melody and groove.... and her dry papery vocal timbre Wondering if...

This really takes off around the 20 minute mark and goes into perpetual-ascent mode - I don't know if it's exactly "the music of flight" but it's some kind of Icarus-rock. (I guess the bit I'm talking about is "track 3" - really more like a phase in one giant double-album-length piece...

Two excellent historical accounts of North American rave culture The Matos one is more recent and detailed... whereas the Scott one was written well before the EDM explosion of the 2010s.... She's Canadian so it really is North America not just the USA (there's a good chapter on...

G'n'R definitely hair metallic at this point - Axl's blow-dried hair and eye-make-up The equivalent to the breakdown in "Pour Some Sugar On Me" is the hectic bass-rush at around 3.34 The gender confusion thing in hair metal is the most intriguing thing about it - you have these macho...

Always been partial to this one - especially the breakdown at 3.03, this chasm that opens up in the record. Feels like they must have been listening to hip hop.... or maybe it's just their GlitterDNA This chorus is like a fist swaddled in cotton wool punching the air.... vocal stacking...

loves the song so much he came back for a double dip - folding it into some gauzy Patrice Rushen

can't believe i didn't include this the first time round i suppose the fact that it's a remix of a pop song / R&B tune (Princess, "Say I'm Your Number One") might disqualify slightly, since the loving sentiments are coming from outside of jungle-as-genre, in a sense but then again I think...

Incredibly sad

What did Alec E do to get cancelled? (Always liked him, as an interviewee - but the DHR's stuff novelty appeal wore off quite quick. He did some nice solo stuff as I recall).

"Sometimes my contribution [as a record producer] might have been as minimal as just saying, 'Shall we stop for a few minutes?... And then of course, other times I work like a normal musician. I say, 'Why don’t we have a G major instead of that B minor' or whatever. In fact, I nearly always say...

that's more like it

I get the impression that a lot of bleep was recorded in proper recording studios. It was before the whole DIY made on a computer in a bedroom thing really took off with the breakbeat hardcore. So the Sheffield stuff, I should imagine much of it would have been recorded at FON - the studio that...

Truly astonished nobody has uploaded the Open University clip with the "I can't accept Drum & Bass. We need Jungle, I'm afraid" soundbite. Funny thing is that all the mash-ups I've heard have put the soundbite over turned-to-shite late'90s d+b, as opposed to propah rinse-out junglizm.

I haven't heard it and probably it sounds okay, but this description that just popped up on Twitter made me laugh "Cold Steel’s new track “Geeked” takes elements of footwork, trance, and ethereal sad boy rap and mixes them in a breakcore blender."