Tag: ragga jungle

Here’s the first record on the ragga jungle label Slam! records. It’s no secret that as pricey as some oldskool jungle is, if you chuck some some toasting samples on top and make sure the track has amens in it, a bunch of north american kidds in camo pants will materialize out of nowhere and…

After jungle first started blowing up in 94/95, lots of jungle remixes began popping up on more mainstream hiphop and rnb releases. Already featured heavily on UK pressed dancehall releases by labels like Jet Star and Fashion, these new remixes were a bit more dodgey since they were a mixture of original/legit heads and opportunistic…

Been a while since I’ve posted an amen smasher, so here’s one I secretly posted as part of last Wedensday’s radio show. I grabbed this tune a couple of years ago as a tatty whitelabel that just said “london something” on it (made me think maybe it was the Code071 record), but it turned out…

Here’s an ace dollar bin find from my last UK trip… a nice summery ragga jungle tune, the regular press just had the vocal version but there’s also an instrumental on the version I got (greetings jungle). Maybe I should have posted the instrumental instead (to flex that this is the rarer copy of the…

Here’s some early ragga jungle stuff that’s probably not too well known. In my opinion this isn’t one of the strongest Kemet EPs (or the best by Redskins), but the nonstop frantic toasting throughout and the gunshot samples definitely make it well worth checking. Redskins – Gun

Here’s another good 94-95 jungle release on Flying Fish, by FT, who I’ve previously posted this EP and this other EP by. Really good stuff, there’s also a couple interesting sampleable breakbeats at the end of the EP (sort of likes one of those “ultimate beats + breaks” comps) – not super usable but an…

OK, I’m not gonna lie… this is not the best jungle record I’ve ever posted here. These tracks are cool but overall I wouldn’t say it’s a favorite or anything. Still, it’s interesting record, features Mad Professor, and I basically conned myself into paying way too much for it yesterday because I found it at…

SERIOUS 95 amen toonage here by the crew known as SHUT UP AND DANCE on their ragga jungle sublabel Red Light. The sublabel is probably best known for the classic track “bastards”, though there’s a number of other great tracks on the label. I can’t quite place the intro music to this one, swear it’s…

Killer single here, both sides are simply massive 94 ragga jungle tunes…. side A is maybe a bit more crazy so it wins out, but just barely. Mega chopped frantic amen/coldsweat combo beats, loads of dub sirens and that reversed sound from the core. This single definitely goes for a bit more than the average…