Jungle

[wektor]

wektor: Listened to the remixes Kerridge has been doing lately for people (or any of mixes)?
I think he has sort of his own leftfield sound going, too, with the breakbeats.

I recall having a quite period of following him a few years ago, unfortunately he seemed to had gone towards some millenial asthetics of like "big sound", badly aestethicised resulting in geometric deer tattoo type shit almost. I just figured a lot of his work sounds like less tasteful stuff from northern electronics with some industrial syrup on top OR nervous horizon but someone tryna make it dark techno, especially his sense of harmonies I would often find millenial edm smelling. A lot of stuff on HATE suffers from that, but there's some records I like a lot there, too!

tl;dr yes, but I discovered Lanark Artefax and Djrum around the same time and found them way more interesting in the direction of "really out there" breaks

 

[wektor]

I catch up with the 85acid catalogue every now and then, really love how they jump between very housey and acid tracks, then some bingo beats almost like shit, then crazy chops like the first half of this (01:14!!!!):

and this (wtf??? who gave them a license to be this stripped down?! no fucking accented kick snare through like half of the track yet it bounces so hard???):


most of all, patient and tasteful enough to keep itself simple!

 

[0bleak]

tl;dr yes, but I discovered Lanark Artefax and Djrum around the same time and found them way more interesting in the direction of "really out there" breaks

I'm more specifically talking about the remixes from this year that I linked above.
A friend has also seen him a couple of time recently where he says he does whole sets of similar stuff.

 

[versh]

I catch up with the 85acid catalogue every now and then, really love how they jump between very housey and acid tracks, then some bingo beats almost like shit, then crazy chops like the first half of this (01:14!!!!):

and this (wtf??? who gave them a license to be this stripped down?! no fucking accented kick snare through like half of the track yet it bounces so hard???):


most of all, patient and tasteful enough to keep itself simple!

 

[wektor]

yea thats what im talking about. nuts! what i appreciate a lot, is they dont seem to care too much for jungle signifiers (see entire jungle revivalism scene), they just happen to enjoy jungle and the sound mostly comes from other regions, be that nu skool breaks or otherwise. delicious as an autumn pear.

 

[versh]

holy shit! real leftield breaks first time since like two decades????
had no idea this project existed, fucking sick

Been listening to Nullpunkt releases a lot since posting that one. I'd fallen out of the loop with that stuff after getting bored with what felt like an endless stream of greyscale, techno-inflected d&b throughout the 2010s, but some of it's doing it for me at the moment. Wish they'd do more like that one and lean further into the jungle end of the spectrum though. Normally feels like the techno influence wins out and find that less interesting.

 

[versh]

This is decent:




And this:

 

[versh]

yea thats what im talking about. nuts! what i appreciate a lot, is they dont seem to care too much for jungle signifiers (see entire jungle revivalism scene), they just happen to enjoy jungle and the sound mostly comes from other regions, be that nu skool breaks or otherwise. delicious as an autumn pear.

This one off that release too:

 

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[dilbert1]

@thirdform how can you hate on this its brilliant. 1:49 and 2:56 amazing.

 

[thirdform]

@thirdform how can you hate on this its brilliant. 1:49 and 2:56 amazing.

no funk.

 

[dilbert1]

 

[wektor]

@thirdform how can you hate on this its brilliant. 1:49 and 2:56 amazing.

incredible he did bring around quite a few insane trax before transitioning into a fucken antideutsche idiot

 

[thirdform]

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you say that but I know my german dred bass jungle.

funky deutschland!

 

[0bleak]

they're both well funky, mate, and I know funk in my bones

 

[dilbert1]

incredible he did bring around quite a few insane trax before transitioning into a fucken antideutsche idiot

1995 DHR interview from a Japanese magazine

On their relationship with jungle:

We liked jungle in the past, because in the beginning this kind of music was extremely loud, primitive and nerves-steeling. Now most of the jungle productions are nothing more than 90s soul for unworldly disco lovers and fashion suckers. They were only a few records in the last six months we can accept.

On contemporary sources of inspiration:

There are a lot of fresh and new hardcore labels we respect: Gangstar Toons Industry in Paris, Praxis in London, Cross Fade Enter Tainment in Hamburg. Drop Bass Network in the States and Bloody Fist in Australia. Sometimes we'll get some cool stuff from labels and acts like Mille Plateaux and Riot Beats in Frankfurt. DJ Davyd and Napalm if it's extreme enough. There are some good records from British guitarbands like Huggy Bear, Bikini Kill or Pussycat Trash. Skaterpunk, Death/Speedmetal and Japanese mangas are also a big influence for us.

 

[Corpsey]

https://mixmag.net/feature/inside-mc-stevie-hyper-d-film-jungle-drum-n-bass-documentary-interview

 

[dilbert1]

you say that but I know my german dred bass jungle.

funky deutschland!

They ruined it for me when they brought that dred bass back in, it was getting good once that went away

 

[dilbert1]

No one can tell me this sucks, probably the best tune of his I’ve heard, and it’s dead simple