Top Three Best JUNGLE Artists
Jungle is back to town. It’s an art, art of manual beat-slicing.
Underground dance music been around us for ages and produced a number of different styles. One of the most infamous and distinctive from all of them is probably jungle. What makes it so unique and easy to distinguish from all other styles? I think it’s a mixture of squashed, warped breakbeats and deep basslines. Jungle developed into music style on its own very quickly unlike drum and bass that you can trace back near the beginning of rave.
1993: enter the Rob Playford’s Moving Shadow label and you see a number of releases with truly outstanding breakbeat manipulations. Just listen to Deep Blue’s Helicopter Tune
or Omni Trio’s Renegade Snares
for a good sample of development.
While beats forever have been an essential ingredient of rave, they now became the main focal point of production – time stretched breakbeats supply the melody line, and pitched snare edits replaced the hook. At the same time as jungle progressed, the stubs and rave noises of early 1990s began to fade away. At first jungle had that atmospheric, minimal sound but quickly developed into DnB tour-de-force. To get a sense of it just listen to DJ Crystal’s Roll The Beats at first and then try Krome & Time’s Genja Man jump-up version.
It didn’t take too long for the jungle version of drum and bass to be developed into industrial tech-step and minimal two-step. Listen to Ed Rush and Alex Reece for a good sample of that. Nevertheless, recently, jungle genre has seen a come back in drum and bass, wobble house and dubstep. Thanks to hugely popular compositions, such as Danny Byrd’s updated jungle mash-up Shock Out
and Skream’s remix of La Roux’s In For The Kill, the jungle is once again is a rave of the dance scene.
I conducted survey during June on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, SoundCloud, Last.fm, and my personal musician's list to find out the best Jungle artists...
... and here's the combined result of that quest:
Dillinja came at the top of the list.
Shy FX was just a couple votes behind, really close to #1.
Ed Rush followed.
Dillinja (Karl Francis) is UK DnB producer. Check out his Killa Hertz
album with Lemon D on Valve label. Powerful stuff.
Shy FX - Set It Off
on Warner Bros UK.
Ed Rush - Chameleon
on Virus label.
Is it true that you inoculate jungle classics?
Nookie – Give A Little Love
Amen break mixed with four-on-the-flour. And it works. Old drum and bass classic from Nookie.
Omni Trio – Thorn
Awesome Amen break with time stretched snare. Life beyond Renegade Snares.
Krome & Time – The License
Amen break with incredible crash cymbal. Just crazy.
Engineers Without Fears – Rhythm
The other side of Spiritual Aura.
Renegade – Terrorist
That's Ray Keith here who set the template for Amen break mash-up that followed.
Do you mind if I prescribe jungle-sample-cillin to you?
Jungle Frenzy – available from www.timespace.com. Classic breaks.
Industrial Strength – Vintage Breaks, volume 1 – available from www.loopmasters.com
Down the page you'll find the list of the artists who made that list.
I wanna say big THANK YOU to all of you who participated in this survey.
If you want to take part in a future surveys, please contact me
HERE.
Here is the list of artists who made it, in alpha-beta order:
4 Hero
A Guy Called Gerald, ak1200, Andy C, A-Zone
Blackstar feat. Top Cat
Chopstick Dubplate, Conquering Lion
Dead Dred, Demolition Man, Die, Digital, Dillinja
dj craze, DJ Dextrous, DJ Hype, DJ Krust, dj shadow, DJ SS, DJ Starscream, DJ Zinc
Ed Rush, Engineers Without Fears
Firefox & 4-Tree, Foul Play
Genaside II, Goldie and Optical, Grooverider
Krinjah, Krome & Time
LTJ Bukem - 2
Marvelous Cain feat. Cutty Ranks, M-Beat feat. General Levy, Micky Finn
Omni Trio
Nookie
Omni Trio
Pascal, Potential Bad Boy,
RAW, Ray Keith, RCola, Rude Boy Keith, Remarc, Renegade, Reprazent, Roni Size,
Shy FX -3
UK Apache
Tom & Jerry, Total Science,
I get a kick out of jungle OGOGO.
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