Thrive in '95 - Jungle's zenith

[thirdform]

I like gross and offensive those were anything but they were like baloons popping after your first ever breakthrough on skunk when you were 13 really boring.

 

[luka]

Stopped being sensual

 

[luka]

Talk faster talk more. Not you third you are coming up to the mark everyone else. Stimulate me.

 

[luka]

Does my head in when it's not a constant bombardment

 

[droid]

Chronicles In Dub - 2 Dreads In A Dub (2 Dreads Mix)

The second last release on the great Tone Def label and one of the last jungle tunes produced by Steve Gurley - this is a peculiar beast. Rolls in with some twilight zone mystery vibes alongside rolling shards of apache before bouncing into a locked down intricate groove that segues into some ambiguously feel good 4 hero style strings and piano before finally wigging out with the time stretched 'dread commandments of jah' vocal section. There's a surfeit of ideas going on here, as if Gurley was trying to squeeze as much in as he could before moving on and the remarkable level of cohesion is testament to his consistently superb production abilities. The other dread was DJ Yomi, co-owner of Tone Def and collaborator on a surprising number of big releases on the label.

 

[luka]

Chronicles In Dub - 2 Dreads In A Dub (2 Dreads Mix)

The second last release on the great Tone Def label and one of the last jungle tunes produced by Steve Gurley - this is a peculiar beast. Rolls in with some twilight zone mystery vibes alongside rolling shards of apache before bouncing into a locked down intricate groove that segues into some ambiguously feel good 4 hero style strings and piano before finally wigging out with the time stretched 'dread commandments of jah' vocal section. There's a surfeit of ideas going on here, as if Gurley was trying to squeeze as much in as he could before moving on and the remarkable level of cohesion is testament to his consistently superb production abilities. The other dread was DJ Yomi, co-owner of Tone Def and collaborator on a surprising number of big releases on the label.

Another tune I've never heard before and I am currently enjoying. It's not the genre I know and love it is a distinct and different thing but now at 22:44 23/06/29 it pretty sweet

 

[droid]

Q Project - Champion sound (Mastersafe/Unofficial '95 bootleg mix)

Darkside in '95! Ive played this one out and seen it do serious damage. The classic combination of soul pride, hot pants and amen (put through an Akai for that crunch) just rolling along with a gorgeous bouncing 808 bassline and the hardcore stabs we know and love. Apparently produced by the underrated Formation stalwart Mastersafe this definitely has a bit of a smell of SS of it. Up until 2011 it only existed on a rave tape, I actually tried to get my hands on this around 2008 for Ruff Revival and the response from SS was 'this is never coming out'... lo and behold, Will at Sublogic managed to commission and license a recreation a couple of years later, and even got the blessing of Q project for the release. Only problem is that the version we all had from the tape sounds like it was played at +8 and this is an exact copy of it - so it's super fast...

 

[luka]

Durr durr Durr Durr duR Durr that's been on other tunes. Which?

 

[luka]

Herein we make the case for the enduring beauty of 95 jungle, the year that the genre was shorn of overt external influences and grew into an utterly unique multi faceted musical artifact.

We begin with some slightly obscure ethereal soulfulness from Override/AKA Klute:



Feel free to chime in or heckle.

Given the right circumstances this could be an eyes roll back in the head

 

[droid]

Durr durr Durr Durr duR Durr that's been on other tunes. Which?

Champion Sound!!!

 

[luka]

Ah yeah course ta

 

[blissblogger]

discogs says 94 but i remember this is as a 1995 tune in terms of endlessly being played



beginnings of linearity but at that time refreshing in its tunnel-vision focus

and you gotta love the "oh yus" chap who pipes up every so often

 

[blissblogger]

in my mind I pair the MA2 / SS tune with this other stripped-down 95 floorsmasher



which SS then remixed

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

in my mind I pair the MA2 / SS tune with this other stripped-down 95 floorsmasher



which SS then remixed

Yes, you can see from this how he ended up doing the brutally linear, Ur-dubstep Warhead, which was then remixed annually for about a decade.

 

[droid]

Code Of Practice ‎– Can We Change The Future (Klute Remix)

Cert 18 were situated somewhere between Good looking, Metalheadz and Luck Spin in terms of sound and were pioneers of the intelligent style via their early Photek releases under his studio pressure alias. Code of Practice was another Photek disguise and this 12" features remixes by Klute and Source Direct. Kinda hard to get a handle on this one though... what is it's vibe exactly? Unease with a slight tinge with dread? Cautious optimism? Ominous lounge? The ambiguity and all the switch ups creates tension throughout, amplified by the vocal samples and their future-ambivalence. As you'd expect from Klute, the drum programming is masterfully understated, and of course, there's congas!

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

Oh shit, guess what else came out in '95

1995 - GAN 009 - DJ Zinc - Volume Seven

First heard on a pirate while driving around Willesden looking for a party in 1996, flashbulb memory of that moment.

 

[UFO over easy]

It's a betrayal of the legacy of hardcore. It's life-denying. All the joy squeezed out of it. In the way dubstep started off as garage with the joy squeezed out of it. There's something quite alarming about that, in as much as it demonstrates the existence of an entire tribe of people dedicated to the dessicated and the po-faced. The enemies of joy.

i think there's something exciting about the extremity of the swings from joyful to joyless. the speed at which that change occurs. energising! the shift from one to another, that movement in a particular direction, must have felt incredible. legacy betrayal sounds quite exciting too, great phrase. could hardcore be characterised as a betrayal of techno's legacy?

earlier in the thread these '95 tunes were talked about in terms of a genre growing into itself and becoming professionalised/'adult' - but it depends on your vantage point doesn't it? made me of this video Nico made interviewing Fierce which is a really lovely thing - but he's talking about 'durban poison' which came out in '92, in similar terms - "it's so tight, it's really well presented. they fucking loved it, and they made it, and they finished it - you can see the amount of care that's gone into it, even for a record back then, people feeling more and more comfortable in the studio making records"




that klute tune at the beginning of this thread is so amazing. thanks for posting that droid! so beautiful

 

[droid]

Worth it if only to have dragged you out of the aether Ben.

 

[luka]

Yes mate I always like it when alumni come back but as I keep saying I have a structural role as the only person on here that had the classic kool FM education and that means it is incumbent on me to uphold a
Particular set of values albeit I am old and less doctrinaire now And I can enjoy droid type of tunes for what they are.

 

[droid]

discogs says 94 but i remember this is as a 1995 tune in terms of endlessly being played



beginnings of linearity but at that time refreshing in its tunnel-vision focus

and you gotta love the "oh yus" chap who pipes up every so often

I have a beautiful mix between the original Hearing is Believing and this chap on Frontline. The trumpet lick lines up at just the right place. Gotta love that Whitney sample as well.

Helicopter and Amen was such a great combo, that contrast between the off kilter shuffle and rolling precision.