Sunday’s show was pretty nice in my opinion: 94-95 selection, lots of big and well known melodic tunes, though hopefully I got a few surprises in there too. Listener numbers seemed to stay higher than usual until the last part of the show, at least versus when I play 92 or more mixed sets stuff.…
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Aphrodite & Nutty Jim – Full Effect (Hoover Mix)
Here’s a less appreciated yet nonetheless firing tune by Aphrodite. For me, “full effect” sits in the middle ground between hardcore and jungle… like all of Aphrodite’s early tunes, it has distinctive Amiga sounding low fi production. That grittyness lends itself to seeming like a 92 hardcore tune, but the track components themselves are restrained…
Ride C – Jungle Pressure
Here’s an exceptional underrated 94 banger from a small label called Quality Control. This EP is the first of just a couple releases on that label, and it’s definitely a strong start. On the A side (featured here) we get a deep-n-dark think & cold sweat breakbeat flex-out, drenched in delay with ominous synths and…
Radio Frontline Set – Feb 1st, 2014
Here’s my set from Radio Frontline, Feb 1st 2014. Like the last Jungletrain show this was 92-95 stuff, pretty heavy on the anorak tunes this time. The DJs spinning after me had some tech troubles so I rolled out an extra hour of vibey 93-95 classics. A few parts of the set were bugging me…
RIP Chris Savage aka Mr Sav
Sad news from Nebkins.. I was notified on my Facebook yesterday of the extremely sad news that Chris Savage passed away suddenly on Saturday 25th January. He was 34. For those that didn’t know of him, Chris ran the hugely influential “Sav’s Jungle Tekno Zone” website back in the late 90’s and early 2000’s which…
Alter – Ego? – Main Line
Here’s a nice tune off the Deep & Dark label… Deep & Dark is the type of record label which I’d be tempted to go on and on about as a “Criminally underrated label” since I rarely see their tunes in mixes, but I’ll be honest: while I like most of their releases, none of…
Question Mark – Volume 1
Been a while since I posted some happy hardcore stuff, so here’s a personal favorite. It’s the first in a series of cheeky mashup records by Red Alert and Mike Slammer, similar in style to the SMD records Slipmatt was making except with that Red Alert + Mike Slammer lowest-fi gritty amiga production. No big…
Wiz – Freak Sexy Style
Here’s a personal favorite of mine from the Absolute 2 label… only for fans of weird, dark, strange oldskool. No catchy anthem business here! This EP is far removed from the other Wiz EP on Detroit House, so much so it almost makes me wonder whether it’s by the same artist (Mike James). But James…
Blog to the Oldskool Radio January 12th 2014
Tonight’s Jungletrain show was really fun – I lost some listeners as it went on (probably because it was getting late in the UK/Europe), but I was definitely happy with the tunes played and thought it all went together well. Starting with 92 stuff, moving around between there and 95, playing mostly moody choppy stuff…
Aka Bu – Jungle Vibes
Here’s another obscurity I dug up a while back, one for the jungle nerds (like me) looking to hear those last few records no one really knows. Since there wasn’t any audio of it on the net, I ripped the whole thing and posted it on youtube rather than just ripping one track for the…