{"id":7609,"date":"2015-05-09T04:19:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T11:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=7609"},"modified":"2015-05-09T04:19:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T11:19:56","slug":"ice-one-jungle-groove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=7609","title":{"rendered":"Ice One &#8211; Jungle Groove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in yesterday&#8217;s tracklist, here&#8217;s an &#8220;unknown&#8221; tune from the last Blog to the Oldskool set. It contrasts nicely with that first tune (Dom + Roland &#8220;bells&#8221;), which is just an amazing, well produced classic jungle tune that is well known and somewhat in demand these days for very good reason (you don&#8217;t see copies of D+R #2 for sale online often)  In comparison, this tune is about as far to the outer regions of nerdiness \/ anorak diminishing returns as a tune can get. I found it by complete accident in a Boston record store recently. Pretty uneventful record scrounging day with no scores,  had to watch in horror as some random college kid dredged up a great condition original press of Steve Poindexter &#8220;Work That MF&#8221; for $3 in a crate I hadn&#8217;t gotten to yet. Ouch. As a last ditch attempt to buy something, I saw an interesting yellow label 90&#8217;s looking record in the dollar bin. Mid 90&#8217;s Italian instrumental hiphop?  Might as well, at the very least there&#8217;d be some decent breakbeats on it. I got the record home and, lo and behold&#8230; jungle track on B1:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xe3gV26ZHkU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nPretty skeletal tune, super crusty sounding breaks, a few samples (The &#8220;hippity hop&#8221; gets quite grating but the breakdown and beats etc are fine), etc. As is the point of the whole record, very much just a beats track for mixing etc, not a long-lost criminally underrated jungle masterpiece. Still, it&#8217;s kind of funny that even sometimes when you can&#8217;t find jungle records, jungle records can find you. <\/p>\n<p>Since this whole EP is available for sale digitally through <A href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Jungle-Groove\/dp\/B00DPJ1ZVQ\">Amazon<\/a>, <A href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/fat-beats-vol.-1-produced\/id668274419\">Itunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/play.spotify.com\/track\/5iLc2qO4qiCoppcEvsmQYz\">and streamable on Spotify etc<\/a>) I&#8217;m not posting a direct link.  Here&#8217;s the discogs link though, in case any of you collect mid 90&#8217;s instrumental hiphop or want to be the second dj ever to play it in jungle sets on vinyl:<br \/>\n<A href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Ice-One-Fat-Beats-Vol-1\/release\/1261285\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogtotheoldskool.com\/blog\/images\/ice_one.jpg\"><br \/>\nIce One &#8211; Fat Beats Vol 1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in yesterday&#8217;s tracklist, here&#8217;s an &#8220;unknown&#8221; tune from the last Blog to the Oldskool set. It contrasts nicely with that first tune (Dom + Roland &#8220;bells&#8221;), which is just an amazing, well produced classic jungle tune that is well known and somewhat in demand these days for very good reason (you don&#8217;t see&hellip; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=7609\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ice One &#8211; Jungle Groove<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,20,159],"class_list":["post-7609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tunes","tag-36","tag-hip-hop","tag-italy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7609"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7621,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609\/revisions\/7621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}