I stumbled across this the other day and thought I’d share. It’s an interview with a few key jungle DJs, producers and promoters from, I’m guessing, around late ’95 – DJ Rap, Darren Jay, Bryan Gee, Boymerang, L Double and Jarvis Sandy (Desert Storm Promotions) – discussing where the jungle/drum & bass scene was at the time and how the whole Jungle name was becoming synonymous with violence, drugs and general naughtiness
Worth a read to see what was going on 14 odd years ago and how things have changed
A totally infectious little melody in this track and awesome use of the Kurtis Blow – Do The Do break, one of my favs. I love this style of jungle and could listen to mixes of mid 90s melodic tunes for hours on end. That reminds me that I need to do another mix (or three) and this one has to go on there!
A beautiful slice of mid-90s jungle here from one of its shamefully unsung heroes, Pete Parsons. I think many people are unaware of how many huge tunes this guy was behind being the in-house engineer for Dee Jay Recording and Lucky Spin, not to mention many, many more tracks.
Voyager was probably his biggest alias for solo material and always centered around the melodic side of things. This one was the b-side of Lucky Spin 21, just one of many classic 12″s this guy put out
One of my all time favourite tracks from a criminally underrated jungle/dnb producer. Shogun drops yet another dreamy tune on the wicked Renegade Recordings label. The flip side to this, Paparazzi, is also great and I’d recommend picking up pretty much everything this guy did, they can be found for peanuts on eBay and Discogs
