There’s apparently some research that shows people have the most affection for music they were listening to when they were 14. I was 14 right at the height of portmire/gaza vs alliance/gully era. Luke would have been 14 when jungle first started happening.
Apparently prince used to talk about people having a musical home; the genres that are closest to you and most natural to you. He said you could go travelling to other places and visit them, but you’d always have to come home. I think I’ve got that with dancehall. I perceive music through the prism of dancehall; jungle, grime and drill fair example are all perceived as these mutated variants of it in my mind.
When I was very little (turn of the millennium) the bloke living upstairs ran a sound system, so in a way it’s a music that’s been ever present I’m my consciousness.
All of which is a very sentimental and long winded way of saying I’d like to learn about something I love and something very dear to me from someone who’s incredibly knowledgable and impassioned about it.
