Sunday’s show was a nice one: 94-95 selection, less beardy than usual for me, which still means pretty nerdy, but N-Flow and Tim Reaper were in the chat recognizing tunes left and right. Managed to keep this pretty laid back and pleasant with some more up front stuff and a bit o ragga, enjoy!
Author: Pete
Original RAW – Rollin’
Switching gears from 92, here’s a wicked 96 track which shows the upside of more jump-up style sounds, before “jump up” became a bit of a dirty word for some people (raises hand sheepishly + looks around the room). Here you get that thick bass sound so prevalent in jump-up, mixed with more subby stabs,…
Radio Frontline Set Feb 28th 2014 (Darkside/Dark Jungle)
Last Friday’s Radio Frontline set was a good time, aside from too much time spent trying to get a microphone to work through overly complicated means, which never did fully pan out. The set was itself dark 92 stuff through to darker 94 jungle. A handful of quite beardy obscurities but also hopefully some familiar…
Space Cube – Mental Terror
Here’s a personal favorite I meant to play in my set last Friday on Radio Frontline, but I didn’t quite get to it. It’s arguably a well known track (certainly not an obscure white label), getting play at the time in the hardcore scene from people like DR S Gachet, Kenny Ken and Druid amongst…
DJ Monita – “12 Chapters” Mix Series & Interview
A little while back, DJ Monita of Skeleton Recordings unearthed a series of cassette tapes he recorded between 1994 and 1995. Between April 94 and March 95, he recorded one new mix a month, 12 in all… no small feat given the number of tracks in these mixes and the good quality of them. That…
Digital Konfusion – Kill Dem Dead (Steaks Ill-Matic Mix)
A recent thread on B2VOS got me thinking about US produced tracks again – here’s one I like a lot, which is much better produced than the last EP I posted. This one is by a crew out of New York called Digital Konfusion, who I think primarily consisted of I-Cue and Peppersteak. I-Cue was…
Blog to the Oldskool Radio – Feb 23rd 2014 (Tim Reaper mix)
Here’s Tim’s set from yesterday’s radio show… I think this will be a fairly regular thing, Tim and I switching off these jungletrain shows. He did an ace job and it was lots of fun getting to hang out in the chat and listen to tunes / chat and crack jokes without worrying about keeping…
Peshay + Roger Johnson – In My Soul
Here’s an early vibey amen number by Peshay and Roger Johnson. I’m sure the name Peshay is familiar to everyone reading this new and old, if not then go read this awesome article by RBMA about the Blue Note or check this wicked interview with him on the Uncle Dugs show. Roger Johnson might not…
Suburban Base Records – The History of Hardcore, Jungle, Drum & Bass: 1991-1997
It looks like Suburban Base will be amping up their digital presence in a big way over the next few months. In March they’ll be releasing a fresh compilation called “SUBURBAN BASE RECORDS – THE HISTORY OF HARDCORE, JUNGLE, DRUM & BASS: 1991-1997”, including some of their strongest tracks from that era. Following that, they’ll…
Obscure 95 Jungle Video
Here’s a jungle-centric video from 95 I’ve never seen before. Thanks to Tim Reaper for pointing me to this and to Charlie Turbo from “Beautifully Crafted Jungle” group for posting it. What’s interesting about this one is, taking a quick look through, I don’t see any real big name djs/mcs in there (there’s some shots…