Here’s a few tracks of nice 93-94 choppy jungle.This first one I have no idea about – found it in a Bristol record shop and it was labelled as being by “slipmatt”, but I think that was just because it has the same catalog # as awesome records #1 (SL2 “the noise”), which is by…
Tag: choppage
91 Whitelabels
Assuming the “tag cloud” feature on here is to be trusted, I’ve been posting lots of 92 and later stuff recently. Here’s a couple of 91 favorites. This first one I just got on my recent trip to Europe… It’s a wicked 1991 white label with really solid production and tons of changeups / choppy…
Dopeski & Jakes
The weather has been pretty cold and shitty in Boston lately, so here’s some 93 darkness courtesy of Dopeski & Jakes. First up is the Snowstorm EP on Wardance Records. “Snowstorm” has all the trappings of a quality early darkside tune – twisted synths, chopped beats, screams, etc. “Cantankerous” is the lightest of the four…
Europe Trip finds, vol 1 – London Bargain bins
Since I just got back from a 3 week vacation across Europe, I’ll probably be posting a lot about my various record finds from there over the next few weeks. First up is the UK.. Anybody into jungle who has been to UK record shops over the past few years knows that hardcore has gotten…
DJ Fokus
DJ Fokus is without a doubt one of my favorite of the lesser known 93-95 artists. Originally releasing on the label Blueprint Records, his first release “The Theme” bw “Disengaged” is an in-demand amen smasher, fetching high prices these days. He followed this EP up with a solo outing on the same label, before releasing…
Mind Therapy, Part 2
I already did an entry on Mind Therapy, but only scratched the surface w/ the one EP mentioned there (admittedly a great record). Here’s several more bits of their stuff. Their first EP was on the Jack In The Box label. This label was more of a distributor (I’ve definitely seen a sticker from them…
Mind Therapy – Boss EP
I’m always on the hunt for old tracks with THE most mashed up, choppy, interesting break patterns, especially ones that don’t fall back on an amen/think combo but instead layer up a bunch of lesser known breaks into tasty polyrhythm lasagna. Probably my favorite record in this style is Mind Therapy “The Boss EP”. I…
HMS & Fineart (Raveology)
One of my favorite things in 92-95 tunes is the variety of rhythmic patterns. In the transition from more standard drum machine programmed beats to using looped breakbeats (largely from hiphop records), some producers got seriously inventive when it came to chopping up and rearranging these breaks / layering them with other sounds. Case in…