Been doing a concerted listen of every track posted so far! Not there yet but getting there. Been feeling recently that, despite the fact that there's so much good new jackin all the time that you can fill a set just with jackin, and despite the fact that jackin's got loads of different sound pallets, that I want to be mixing it up a bit more in my sets, so I'm trying to find the best of this stuff, listening to it with an open mind because I /want/ new stuff to like.
I've got to say I find most of this stuff deadly, deadly boring. It's so fucking boring that I give any track with even a little bit of hype a massive benefit of the doubt.
The other thing is, how the fuck does anyone have time to play this stuff? All the tracks stretch 4 minutes worth of ideas into 8 minutes. I know a lot of the people on this forum have proper 2 hour radio shows and that, but for small fry DJs like me who are used to 45-60 minute sets, I don't know how you can ever justify waiting 4 minutes for a drop when you could mix two or three jackin tracks in at the same time.
People talking about a posible convergence of jackin and shuffling. I can very easily see it happening, but I really hope not. For me jackin would do best to step away from the 'house and bass' thing and take some pride in doing its own weird, wonky, wacky thing.
Not that some of the tunes aren't good, cause there are a couple of nice ones so big up trilliam and continuum for posting them, but even the tunes I like wouldn't breach my top 50 jackin tracks.
As an aside, it dawned on me that this track by jackin producer Tom Garnet was drawing on a lot of those deep-tech/shuffle sounds: